Four Labor no-shows thwart LNP effort to air Trad saga details

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The majority of a powerful committee have failed to show at a public meeting where they would have had to again vote on releasing corruption watchdog details about its costs in ongoing court action by the former deputy premier.

Labor members of a powerful Queensland parliamentary committee appear to have sabotaged an opposition attempt to release details about an ongoing court battle between former deputy premier Jackie Trad and the Crime and Corruption Commission.

Former deputy premier Jackie Trad campaigning in her seat of South Brisbane before the 2020 state election, which she ultimately lost to now Greens MP Amy MacMahon.After suspending the meeting for 15 minutes to wait for Labor MPs Jonty Bush, Jennifer Howard, Don Brown and Jess Pugh, and still without a quorum, LNP committee chair Jon Krause was forced to adjourn.

“The CCC’s indicated in no way that this information should be kept from the public. It was a question on notice, asked in public. It should be answered in public.Matt Dennien Questioned on the absence by reporters on parliament grounds 30 minutes later, before the start of the sitting day, Bush said Labor members had other appointments and “that was made known last night”.“It is a really busy week for us, regrettably, as you would understand,” the member for Cooper said, referring to the“[We’re] very happy to work with the committee of course and work with them on getting some future dates up and keep the work progressing.

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Thats just how we roll…… if this was the private sector, Trad would have been fired

More anti alp gutter level smear. Honestly when will grubs just fucking stop

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