The Premier and Treasurer
received the final Costello Audit report on February 28
and it is still not publicly available.
In State Parliament the
Opposition asked the LNP Government to rule out using
the secret report to sell or lease Queensland’s
electricity generation assets, privatise hospitals and
outsource hospital services such as pathology and
pharmacy services in public hospitals.
The Premier refused to
answer these questions but did state that "only a few of
the Costello audit recommendations are about asset
sales."
However, we know the
final Costello report will be a made-to-order excuse for
mass privatisations of our public assets and we know the
LNP Government have already begun this process by
privatising services such as health through
outsourcing.
We have already seen the
Treasurer Tim Nicholls arrogantly strike a secret deal
to sell seven government buildings in the Brisbane CBD
with seeking the mandate he and the Premier said they
needed.
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