The newly elected LDP government in Queensland is moving quickly to put an end to racially divisive ‘truth-telling’ and ‘path to treaty’ policies. The move is infuriating the troughers of the Aboriginal Industry. The government-elect is also preparing to dump a massive ‘renewable’ boondoggle.
Queensland Premier David Crisafulli has cancelled a landmark “truth-telling” inquiry investigating the experiences of the state’s Indigenous people, as his newly elected Liberal National Party government immediately shuts down work on a mega pumped hydro project.
Ahead of the swearing in of his cabinet on Friday morning, Mr Crisafulli said truth-telling hearings scheduled for December would be axed but he looked “forward to people coming to us with ideas” about how to improve outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Ditching the race-grievance industry is a good start. So-called ‘truth-telling’ inquiries never result in anything other than a farrago of distortions and outright lies, designed simply to foster enduring racial division – and feather the nests of race-baiting activists.
“We’ve made a decision, it’s the right decision, and we stand by it,” [Mr Crisafulli] said.
“We don’t believe embarking on that process will be one that unites the community, but we do believe we can do so much more, and we must do so much more.
“Priorities need to be sharpened to work out ways that we can lift education standards and make sure we can provide better housing.”
Truth-telling and Healing Inquiry chair Joshua Creamer said he had not spoken with Mr Crisafulli, but had paused all work until more information about future plans was made available.
“If the inquiry is formally stopped it will be a lost opportunity for the state,” Mr Creamer said.
More likely, a lost opportunity to trouser a bucket of taxpayers’ money.
Speaking of which:
The inquiry’s axing comes as Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie declared Labor’s multibillion-dollar Pioneer-Burdekin pumped hydro scheme was “goneski”, after he ordered the state’s Energy Department to stop all work.
The then-Labor government announced the project in 2022 before it had been subjected to any detailed financial, engineering and environmental investigations […]
In a repeat of the failed Traveston Dam project – which was scrapped in 2009 over environmental concerns – the former Palaszczuk-Miles government had already resumed more than 50 cattle and sugar properties in the valley to make way for the Pioneer-Burdekin project.
So now the government has to work out how to make good for the 57 landowners “that were forced to sell their homes to a government that didn’t consult with that community”.
The decision to nix the race baiting stands in stark contrast to Victoria, at the other end of the continent. There the Allan Labor government, often under a cloak of secrecy, is proceeding with the full gamut of the Aboriginal whinge industry. Most recently, the premier, in a closed session, ‘apologised’ to a group of so-called ‘Stolen Generations’ – even though a previous Victorian Labor government couldn’t find any. In fact, while a grand total of 16 Aboriginal children in Victoria were identified as having been adopted out by single mothers, or sent to boarding schools, Victoria still has 36 organisations supposedly helping ‘stolen’ children.
Someone’s making a whole lot of money out of this.
