How evil is Campbell Newman?
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the leader of the not-corrupt LNP party.
He led the LNP to a record victory of 78 seats (of a
total of 89) in QLD parliament giving him a total
fucking majority. For those of you good at math you’ll
see that’s almost a complete obliteration of all
opposition. He and his (not-corrupt) developer buddies
are now going ape shit making QLD a better place to
live.
who then went on to:
mmmm
oppression But
after all that he’s still:
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Let’s have a look at some of the fun
stuff he’s implemented:
- Cancelling BreastScreen (Mobile breast cancer screening)
- Hiring something like 1100 new cops
- Promising to cut 20,000 public sector jobs to help balance the budget.
- Called Queensland the "Spain of Australia" and got in trouble for it
- Won't give more money to National Disability Insurance Scheme (stuff even his Federal counterparts wouldn’t dare oppose)
- Got rid of civil unions in Queensland
- Got rid of that Fair Work Queensland something or other
- Scrapped the Premier's Literary award to save money.
- AND then gave an almost equivalent amount to the producers of Big Brother.
- Had a sudden, mysterious revelation upon becoming elected that the state's budget was far, far worse than he had claimed beforehand.
- Convieniently ignored the spate of natural disasters in recent years and their impact on the state's economy.
- Building a multi hundred million dollar redevelopment of the parlimentary CBD and new office building for himself. Tossing money at his mates in the process.
- Hired Peter Costello on the taxpayer dollar to assess the state's finances. Unsurprisingly recieved very doom and gloom report back to use as justification.
- Already cut 2000 jobs in Transport and Main Roads.
- Publicly claimed Queenslanders
- were thankful for the job cuts.
- Told fired workers they should apply for jobs in the police force.
- Axed Office of Climate Change, offered 70 odd workers including Anna Bligh's husband who he had promised not to fire out of spite and then gave them a $6500 redundancy package so he could claim he wasn't firing them.
- Appointed walking prolapsed rectum Fiona Simpson to speaker, where she has enacted a series of draconian crackdowns on the rights of the public and the media to observe and be present at parliament.
who then went on to:
- Banned media from parliament because they had the audacity to report on people protesting
- Rumoured to be re-implementing Joh era secret dossier's on known dissidents.
- Axed the states only (and excellent) community support organisation for LGBT Queenslanders based on lies and demonstrably false justifications. It is widely known that QAHC considering outspoken support and campaigns for equal rights to be a part of its job was a major factor in the decision.
- Planning to make it a criminal act punishable with jail time for same sex couples to be involved in surrogacy.
- Cut state funding to the Solar Dawn project.
- Cut public Q & A sessions from community cabinet meetings.
- Ignored a UNESCO report regarding developments and increased shipping threatening the great barrier reef.
- Denies climate change.
- Cut family planning/women's health funding.
- Cut funding to aboriginal health groups.
- Literally kicked the opposition out of their offices in the Parliament and made them all move down the street.
- Charging the Media ($33,000) for the privilege of being in the Parliament building.
- Proposing to relax gun Control laws
- Smashing up the QLD tent embassy
- Cut $10 rebate for pensioners to get their lawn mowed
- Cuts funding to a Child Protection project that went on to win an award
- Moves public holidays around for god fucking knows why, I mean fuck, what the fuck?
- Abolished funding to the Tenancy Advice and Advocacy Service. The funding was provided from the interest on tenant's own bonds that are held in trust by the RTA.
-
Ignored UNESCO
warning about developing ports on the Great Barrier
Reef
*Wants to open up conservation areas to logging and grazing (Thanks Hobo Erotica)
*Cutting funding for a school band competition (How fucking petty - "Sorry musicaly kiddies, Greyhounds are more important!") (Thanks Hobo Erotica) - Sacking 14000 public service workers to help fund a $57000 wage rise for MPs while his office think 'politicians are worth what they get paid every day of the week' while blocking a 2.2% payrise for public servants. They later backed out of the opportunity for Newman to have the same salary as Barack Obama ($400k)
- Removed Labor's cap on political donations
- Drafting legislation which includes 12 months behind bars or a $12,000 fine for parents who allow their children to hold uncontrollable parties.
- Yet sponsoring $5000 to fund a pop-up picnic, often held in prestigious parts of the city without authorisation
- Cutting 30 staff at Brisbane's only free sexual health clinic, despite having one of the highest rates of chlamydia in Australia and a doubling of HIV diagnoses in 10 years
- Cutting 430 IT jobs and won't guarantee the jobs will stay onshore
- Increasing free range egg densities from 1500 birds per hectare to 10000 per hectare (a 667% increase)
- Says Canberra is stalling Qld economy, despite waning investment in mining and a noticeably higher unemployment rate compared to the national average
- Completely outsourcing the management of Australia's largest publicly owned teaching hospital to a commercial operator
- Allowing oil and gas development in Queensland's Lake Eyre Basin
- Protecting his mates from claims of nepotism by hiding documents related to their employment
- Introducing new laws that can imprison someone for up to 25yrs for supply a 16yr old with marijuana and up to 7yrs for graffiti vandalism
- Closing the only mental health unit that houses teenagers with severe mental disorders
- The G20 Safety and Security Bill, now before State Parliament, would allow police to search people on the spot, arrest and detain anyone deemed a threat without giving them bail for at least the week of the summit while publicly broadcasting the names and photos of people listed "prohibited" from the city
- 'Naming and shaming' repeat offenders as young as 10
- Selling the Clem 7 tuneel for 618m. It cost $3 billion to build
- Abolishing Skills Queensland, set up to address the state's skills and workforce priorities
- Introducing tough anti-bikie laws including: No gym facilities or TV access in jail, a bikie-only prison and only one hour of contact time per week
- Queensland widens bikie law assault with plans for jobs bans
- Attorney-General Jarrod Blejie has given himself a special ministerial decree so that he can overrule Supreme Court judges and prevent the very worst criminal offenders from being released from jail
- Tony Abbott and Campbell Newman reduce environmental checks, unwinding thirty years’ worth of protection for Queensland’s nationally significant environmental icons
- Considering a plan to force jailed members of gangs to wear fluoro pink prison uniforms
- Changing the staffing allocation formula, has resulted in fewer teachers for the same amount of students this year, leading to an increase in classes over the target size
- Police who disagree with the crackdown on bikie gangs have been told to reconsider their future with the service
- The Queensland Police union is pushing for powerful Remington R4 carbine .223 guns with scopes, shotguns and personal body armour tailored to individual officers in the fight against bikies
- Queensland Health is preparing to put thousands of senior medical officers onto contracts, sparking fears doctors will have no protection against pressures to work while fatigued
- 30 positions were quietly abolished in the Environment department, including 2 koala specialists
- Newman declaring that people who do not support his government's laws giving politicians power to overrule the courts in some cases, are "apologists for sex offenders and pedophiles"
- Newman creates bikie refugees as they head as far away as Perth to escape the crackdown on criminal motorcycle gangs
- A legal expert has described Premier Campbell Newman's recent swipe at Queensland's judicial system as "unprecedented" and "reprehensible" - includes long list of QLD anti-bikie laws
- A typographical error in Queensland's new anti-bikie laws means gang members who commit grievous bodily harm will spend only one year in jail as opposed to a one year minimum
- Convicted criminals living within restricted zones for next year's G20 Summit in Brisbane could get a short holiday at taxpayers' expense
- Campbell Newman refuses to back down in an escalating row with the state's judiciary
- For a few days in November next year, it will be illegal for people to carry certain household objects such as eggs and glass jars in central Brisbane or Cairns - unless they have a "lawful excuse" (e.g. a person who purchases a longbow from a sports store in a security area and then carries the longbow in a case to the person's vehicle to take it home)
- Newman says gang-related crime in the state is a bigger problem than corruption issues that sparked the Fitzgerald Inquiry in the late 1980s
- If bikies meet in groups of three or more interstate all police need to do is get some recording of it, such as from a security camera at an airport, restaurant or service station, and if the bikies return to Queensland, they can be arrested and face up to three years in jail. Police also raided the Vietnam and Veterans Motorcycle Club (VVMC) at its clubhouse, which includes men mostly in their 60s and 70s who fought in Vietnam and ex-servicemen who hold an Active Service Medal. In a statement Queensland Police said the raid was "part of a strategy to develop a rapport with legitimate members of the motorcycle riding community in the interest of effective policing".
- Queensland police want to take guns home to protect families amid bikie fears, while considering a policy allowing district duty officers to carry high-powered semi-automatic Remington R4 carbine .223 rifles in their vehicles
- Chief Magistrate issues an edict that could see alleged outlaw bikies kept behind bars for up to a week before they can even apply for bail
- The Chief Magistrate also issued an edict that will effectively ensure he makes all the decisions in cases of disputed bail for accused bikies, stripping this abiliy from Queensland's 88 magistrates
- Victoria launches their own specialist federal anti-gang squad aimed at the growing bikie menace
- Dredging for the development of deep water port facilities would be prohibited outside of five established ports for the next 10 years, although UNESCO is worried about the current dredging proposals within those five areas
- The Attorney-General rejects claims youth boot camp plans axes - A program at Kuranda near Cairns in far north Queensland was suspended in April after the first two participants ran away and robbed a neighbour
- Considering a move for Independent Public School principals the power to boost school chaplaincy hours at the expense of literacy and numeracy programs, or other staff including guidance counsellors and psychologists.
- Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie decides Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions takes over contested bikie bail applications
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