Union links to Labor in Queensland
In the past few weeks the deeply disturbing links between the Palaszczuk Labor Government and the union movement have been laid bare.
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Annastacia Palaszczuk and Labor are owned lock, stock and barrel by their union paymasters.
Why else would the Premier have stubbornly refused to condemn abhorrent threats to rape children made by union members at a picket line in Central Queensland?
Why else would she have, on the eve of an election campaign, granted a far higher pay rise to energy workers of the militant ETU than to hard-working police, ambulance officers and teachers?
Why else would her government have done absolutely nothing to prosecute union bosses condemned by a Royal Commission for dragging horse-floats full of incriminating documents away from CFMEU headquarters in Brisbane?
The answer is that the unions control Annastacia Palaszczuk and her government and she can’t afford to upset them.
The union bosses have control over who is elected Labor leader. They have control over who gets into Cabinet and how the portfolios are divided up.
Grubby million dollar donations by the unions grease the wheels of the Labor machine and Annastacia Palaszczuk knows it.
And if Queenslanders are under any illusion that union heavies aren’t driven by a desire to fill their own pockets rather than standing up for the worker, look no further than Federal Labor Leader Bill Shorten.
When Shorten was head of the Australian Workers’ Union, he traded away the penalty rates of low paid workers. Under that grubby deal, lowly-paid cleaners were ripped off to the tune of $420 million.
Bill Shorten is Annastacia Palaszczuk’s Labor mate in Canberra and Annastacia Palaszczuk is a puppet to the union bosses in Queensland.
For as long as she takes union money, this Labor Premier will put unions first and Queensland families last.
Jarrod Bleijie MP
LNP Shadow Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations
No surprises on return from holidays
After two months overseas I looked forward to catching up with the news and state of activity in Mount Isa, and also the community’s vision for the future.
I should not have been surprised to read a letter in the Star from Alice Nolan (North West Star, July 22) accusing Tony McGrady of trying to rewrite history.
Neither should I have been surprised at the hypocrisy of Mr McGrady, using Ms Santillan to demand Mayor Joyce respond to a heap of spurious allegations about the Council budget, when during his recent stint as Mayor his expenditure was outrageous, and totally secretive.
On the positive side of things, it seems to me that the 2017 Isa Rodeo was a great success.
It also seems that Mayor Joyce McCulloch, Deputy Phil Barwick and the Council team brought in the best Mount Isa City Council Budget for years, and they have set in motion some impressive infrastructure projects.
The Mining Industry in the region are ramping up for a big year, and despite a few negative people, Mount Isa seems to be getting its mojo back.
Mount Isa has a long history of overcoming downturns and coming back strong, it has always been this way.
Roll on Christmas and lets look forward to 2018, with a lot of new faces and plenty of enthusiasm.
It really is good to be back in the Isa.
Ron McCullough,
Mount Isa
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