Paul Fletcher (Bradfield, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Deputy Speaker, it is clearly a matter of the highest relevance that there has been substantive evidence of fraudulent behaviour. Indeed, we have seen so much concern in the community about this that there was a need for a formal inquiry.

As somebody new to the parliament, and informing myself about these issues, I was disturbed and troubled to learn of the facts which are recorded in the Shepherdson inquiry. I was disturbed and surprised to learn that a gentleman named Mike Kaiser admitted to the Shepherdson inquiry that he signed an electoral enrolment form dated 7 January 1986, enrolling him at 11 Seventh Avenue, Coorparoo, even though he never lived there. I was disturbed and surprised to find that this gentleman subsequently became a member of the Queensland parliament, and was then required to resign from the Queensland parliament when these facts became known more generally.

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