Qld Labor pays $30m to union-backed bodies for dying hours training centers

Queensland’s former Labor government paid up to $30 million to union-backed training organizations just a day before going into caretaker government, despite promising the money if re-elected in a bid to keep marginal seats critical.

Former energy minister Mick de Brenni and training and skills development minister Lance McCallum issued a joint press release on August 13 announcing that “the re-elected Miles Labor government will build a new £15m skills and training facility of dollars in Rockhampton’.

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