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Questions Without Notice Questions without notice are asked of Ministers and answered during Question Time.
Mr LAWLOR: My question without notice is to the Premier. Yesterday the Queensland cabinet held a strategic planning meeting. Is the Premier aware of any other similar planning initiatives?
Mr BEATTIE: Yes, I am. But I want to note for the record the Leader of the Opposition's strong
support for WorkChoices, and let every Queensland council employee know it. That is exactly what this
is about. That is why there are two federal National Party candidates who are mayors. The Leader of the
Opposition got caught out hook, line and sinker. I will tell every council employee around this state that
you are about undermining their working conditions.
Mr SEENEY: Mr Acting Speaker, I rise to a point of order. I have been on the record for months
saying that I support WorkChoices. It offers great opportunities.
Mr ACTING SPEAKER: Order! There is no point of order. I call the honourable Premier.
Mr SEENEY: For the Premier to suggest he is being somehow clever-
Mr ACTING SPEAKER: Order! Leader of the Opposition, you have been here long enough and
you know that is not a point of order. Please resume your seat. I call the honourable Premier.
Mr BEATTIE: Mr Acting Speaker, thank you. I thank the Leader of the Opposition for putting it on
the record twice, because these are local councils; they are not local corporations. Let me move on.
There was another strategic meeting and it was called the Liberal love-in on Bribie Island on the
weekend. It was billed as a 'time to reflect'. The member for Moggill made the message very clear: they
vote and he walks. If they try to get rid of him he is going to walk. That is what he said. The knives were
out, but of course you can imagine that having a Liberal leader resign in the middle of a federal election
would not be terribly good, so they all went back into their box. The talks included three things I am told.
The first issue was strategic directions. This one started with some head scratching over the word
'strategic' and ended with eight different opinions on-
Mr Seeney: Did you talk to Merri?
Mrs Stuckey interjected.
Mr ACTING SPEAKER: Order! Leader of the Opposition! Member for Currumbin! I call the
honourable Premier.
Mr BEATTIE: Nasty lot. The first was strategic directions, and this started with head scratching
over the word 'strategic' and ended with eight different opinions on which direction they should be
headed in. Then there were lessons from the past. I love this one. Failed MP Terry Gygar gave this talk
about lessons from the past. When Dr Flegg was asked a question by the media about what he had
learnt, Dr Flegg refused to say what he had learnt. They had a whole strategic meeting but he did not
learn anything.
Then there was media management. Bruce had a lot to say about all of that. In fact I note that an
article in the paper this morning states-
Dr Flegg, pictured-
looking very sad-
reportedly had to sit through a scathing review of his performance at a weekend retreat on Bribie Island but, as he has done in the
past, blamed unfair media coverage for his many blunders.
Mr Seeney: Where's Gordon Nuttall?
Mr ACTING SPEAKER: Order! Members on my left!
Mr BEATTIE: They are nasty today.
Government members interjected.
Mr ACTING SPEAKER: Order! Ministers! I call the honourable Premier.
Mr BEATTIE: Mr Acting Speaker, I thank you for that. I reckon the best in the article A machine
mans the office after Flegg takes some flak' was-
So many staff have fled embattled Liberal Leader Bruce Flegg that he apparently has been left with just an answering machine to
man his office.
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