Graham Perrett (Moreton, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

On 19 March there will be local government elections throughout Brisbane, and I rise to speak particularly about the Brisbane City Council election and some concerns I have—as written about in the Brisbane City Timesabout the Brisbane City Council's deal to sell parkland to a significant LNP donor off the books. I see reported today that Lord Mayor Quirk has received nine vehicles from the person who is actually going to sign up for this deal. Labor's mayoral candidate, Rod Harding, is investigating this, because there are lots of questions about this land deal. Obviously I do not have a problem if land is bought on the market, but this was a special deal that was done where there was an exemption from a state act requiring a public tender or to go to auction. So there are certainly significant questions to be answered by Lord Mayor Graham Quirk, especially when he has LNP candidates and campaign workers driving around in vehicles provided by this business.

It is on the record that 'donations search revealed links between businessman and LNP'. If you look at the Electoral Commission of Queensland website you see that East Coast Car Rentals donated $47,300 to the Liberal National Party during the 2014-15 financial year. (Time expired)

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