When eligible terminally ill Queenslanders gained legal access to drugs to end their own lives in 2023, a timer in the laws began. It went-off in January.
Australia’s richest woman and Queensland’s second-in-command have ducked questions about her lobbying for a second Game venue decision against independent advice.
This week in our Queensland public sector column, Public Circus looks at the state’s data centre race, a halftime estimates report, and an opaque bill for the CFMEU probe.
While much was learnt when estimates returned for a second year under LNP control, some questions were blocked, forgotten about, or not even able to be asked.
Amid a largely unrelated bill introduced last month, the LNP has floated changes to public transport procurement laws to fast-track the watered-down project.
This week in our Queensland public sector column, Public Circus details Sosso departure goss, Ombudsman staff woes, inquiry’s mind the gap’ on racism, and more.
Queensland’s anti-corruption agency has been asked to probe poor financial governance at the top of a police service said to have been “living beyond its means”.
Queensland’s major forced adoption service provider has warned the government it must consider lifelong consequences as it forms its response to a major inquiry.