Media Release
Shadow Health Minister, Jo-Ann Miller, says extra jobs flowing from the National Disability Insurance Scheme are welcome, but are old news the LNP is using in its desperation to rehabilitate it and the Premier’s image.
“The 13,000 jobs ‘revealed’ today were announced in September last year by the Newman Government,” Mrs Miller said.
“Today’s announcement is more spin — another desperate stunt by a desperate Premier whose own job is under threat."
“The boost to employment generated by the NDIS has been well known and was being cited long before the Premier even signed up to the scheme in May 2013."
“Queenslanders do not forget the Premier had to be dragged kicking and screaming to sign up to the NDIS simply because it was a federal Labor Government initiative,” Mrs Miller said.
“But now when he wants some good news he grasps the scheme’s well-known employment spin-offs and claim them as his own."
“For the entire week we have seen the humiliating spectacle of the Premier pretending to care and pretending to listen."
“Any announcement of extra jobs is to be welcomed because the Premier is going backwards when it comes to keeping his own promise of having our state heading to a 4% jobless rate."
“Unemployment is stuck around GFC levels at 6.3% under the Newman Government and the LNP has no plans to improve it except to rely on the former Labor Government’s initiatives in launching the export LNG industry,” Mrs Miller said.
September 2013 Ministerial media statement:
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