PROOF ISSN 1322-0330 RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS Hansard Home Page: http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/work-of-assembly/hansard E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (07) 3406 7314 Fax: (07) 3210 0182 Subject FIRST SESSION OF THE FIFTY-FOURTH PARLIAMENT Page Tuesday, 29 May 2012 ASSENT TO BILL ............................................................................................................................................................................. 165 Tabled paper: Letter, dated 18 May 2012, from Her Excellency the Governor advising of assent to a bill. ............. 165 REPORT ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 165 Auditor-General .................................................................................................................................................................... 165 Tabled paper: Auditor-General of Queensland: Report to Parliament No. 2 for 2012—Results of audits: local government financial statements for 2010-11. .................................................................................... 165 ETHICS COMMITTEE ...................................................................................................................................................................... 165 Resignation of Member ........................................................................................................................................................ 165 Tabled paper: Letter of resignation, dated 22 May 2012, from the member for Gladstone from the Ethics Committee. ................................................................................................................................................... 165 SPEAKER’S STATEMENTS ............................................................................................................................................................ 165 Loan of Documents .............................................................................................................................................................. 165 Leader of the Opposition, Reflections on the Chair .............................................................................................................. 166 PETITIONS ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 166 TABLED PAPERS ............................................................................................................................................................................ 167 MINISTERIAL PAPERS ................................................................................................................................................................... 168 Office of the Former Leader of the Opposition ..................................................................................................................... 168 Tabled paper: Public Report of Office Expenses, Office of the Leader of the Opposition, for the period 1 July 2011 to 31 December 2011. ............................................................................................................... 168 Ministerial Expenses ............................................................................................................................................................ 168 Tabled paper: Public Report of Ministerial Expenses, Total for all Ministerial Portfolios for the period 1 July 2011 to 31 December 2011. .......................................................................................................................... 168 MINISTERIAL STATEMENTS .......................................................................................................................................................... 168 Government Administrative Precinct, Redevelopment ......................................................................................................... 168 Alpha Coal Project ................................................................................................................................................................ 169 Commission of Audit ............................................................................................................................................................ 170 Commonwealth Games ........................................................................................................................................................ 170 National Sorry Day ............................................................................................................................................................... 171 SPEAKER’S STATEMENT .............................................................................................................................................................. 172 School Group Tours ............................................................................................................................................................. 172 FS SIMPSON N J LAURIE L J OSMOND SPEAKER CLERK OF THE PARLIAMENT CHIEF HANSARD REPORTER Table of Contents — Tuesday, 29 May 2012 PERSONAL EXPLANATION ............................................................................................................................................................172 Alleged Deliberate Misleading of the House .........................................................................................................................172 NOTICE OF MOTION ........................................................................................................................................................................172 Mungkan Kandju National Park ............................................................................................................................................172 QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE .....................................................................................................................................................173 Ministerial Accountability .......................................................................................................................................................173 Public Service, Jobs .............................................................................................................................................................173 Unemployment ......................................................................................................................................................................174 Deputy Premier, Office .........................................................................................................................................................174 Galilee Basin; Abbot Point ....................................................................................................................................................175 Infrastructure Spending ........................................................................................................................................................176 Federal Budget .....................................................................................................................................................................176 Department of Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts ...........................................................................177 Government Administrative Precinct, Redevelopment .........................................................................................................178 Parliamentary Precinct ..........................................................................................................................................................178 Flying Foxes .........................................................................................................................................................................179 Gladstone Hospital ...............................................................................................................................................................180 Toowoomba, Education ........................................................................................................................................................180 Sale of Public Assets ............................................................................................................................................................181 Local Government ................................................................................................................................................................182 Tabled paper: Online article from AAP, dated 14 August 2007, entitled ‘Councils spared from sack’......................182 Parliamentary Appointments, Costings .................................................................................................................................182 MINISTERIAL STATEMENT .............................................................................................................................................................183 Deputy Premier, Office .........................................................................................................................................................183 Tabled