Queensland Government Pulls a Shifty on Energy Prices

The Palaszczuk Government has announced that $150 million of the increased royalties from Queensland Mines will be spent on workers at publicly owned power stations.

Lucky them, and unlucky for burned out nurses and healthcare workers.

What about the nurses and healthcare workers that you burned out and abused during COVID Premier Palaszczuk?  Queensland Health’s fat cats mismanaged and misspent the COVID funds you showered them with and they only gave nurses a 4% pay rise when inflation is now around 7%.  

Let’s look at these high price Queensland Government owned and operated power stations.

We are informed that the government not only owns the power stations but they own much of the coal and gas that is used to feed them, yes they own the mines too.  So is the Queensland Government double-dipping and charging us a higher price for coal and gas?  And where are the profits going?  

Shouldn’t Queenslanders get a bigger energy discount?  And will the Queensland Government also be putting their hand out for federal coal and gas price subsidies for the resources they already own or control?

The Palaszczuk government could easily cap energy prices and still make a profit from Queensland electricity consumers.  Our guess is the Government is broke and is ripping nurses and consumers off to balance their broken budget.

If Queensland’s bureaucrats and politicians won’t play fair on pay and conditions and energy prices, then more nurses will leave than this government can ever hope to replace.  Queensland’s health system is at breaking point and the over-paid bureaucrats do not have the answers.  NPAQ does:

Queenslanders deserve quality and safe healthcare. Queensland Health deserves competent, capable, nurse-led hospital management, supported by locally elected independent Boards.

Boards that are informed by health professionals and free to focus on local health needs and solutions, enabled by a budget to deliver the healthcare Queenslanders need where they live.