PREMIER LEADS ATTACK ON ANTI-CORRUPTION INSTITUTIONS

Media Release.

Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk says the Premier is now leading an LNP full-frontal attack on the state’s anti-corruption institutions.

“In the past few days we have seen the Premier and senior Ministers including the Treasurer and Attorney-General not wait to find out the facts before attacking the now-resigned chair of the Crime and Misconduct Commission, Ross Martin,” Ms Palaszczuk said.
“Now the Premier has turned his attention to attacking the all-party Parliamentary Crime and Misconduct Committee that oversees the CMC.
“In an extraordinary assault on the committee the Premier has labeled it and its members ‘a lap dog’.
“He has accused PCMC members of being implicated in the unauthorized release and shredding of Fitzgerald Inquiry files.
“This is an unprecedented attack on the same oversight committee the LNP government has tasked with investigating those matters.
“Either the Premier has spoken out of ignorance and stupidity, or his remarks are another calculated attempt to tear down public confidence in our anti-corruption institutions.
“The LNP has a longstanding hostility towards anti-corruption bodies like the CMC.
“But for the Premier to now attack a parliamentary committee that includes his own MPs and Opposition and cross-bench MPs is an insult to those on the committee and a chilling signal to Queenslanders of the government’s real agenda.
“The Premier and the LNP now appear to be set on a full-frontal attack on our anti-corruption institutions including the CMC and now the PCMC.
“The Premier should at minimum retract his comments and apologize to PCMC members,” she said.