Luke Howarth (Petrie, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Last week it was revealed in Queensland that the Palaszczuk government, the state Labor government, is planning to sell state owned assets. This is coming from a Labor Premier who, at the 2015 state election, launched her campaign in front of massive signs that said, 'Stop the asset sell-off.' Annastacia Palaszczuk went on to say she would 'never sell or lease assets'. Yet here we are, less than two years later, and it has been revealed that they plan to sell lots of land assets right throughout Queensland, including in my electorate of Petrie.

The Queensland state Labor government has racked up some $80 billion in debt, the highest debt of any state in the country, along with other premiers before her, particularly Labor premiers. And selling vacant or under-utilised land may help with that. But the issue I want to remind people in the Petrie electorate is that the Palaszczuk government is breaking its biggest promise. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is now doing in government exactly what she criticised in opposition. She has misled Queenslanders—just as Bill Shorten misled the Australian people with his 'Mediscare' campaign with those opposite.

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