Jackie Trad says that she’s only driving Queensland deeper into debt to fund the infrastructure that Queenslanders need. Yet her government is simultaneously splashing $320,000 in taxpayers’ funds to fly in Al Gore to lecture Australians about opposing mining projects which are crucial to the state’s revenue base. She is clearly taking hardworking taxpayers for fools.
Read MoreInstead of spending the money on better public services or repairing Queensland’s fiscal balance, the Palaszczuk government have spent it on flying in a man who lives in a 20-room sprawling mansion that consumes over 20 times the energy of the average Australian household to lecture us on making sacrifices to save the planet.
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