March 28, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\nThe Electrical Trades Union has urged State Treasurer Tim Nicholls to stand up for the interests of Queenslanders against the Federal Government’s “funding blackmail”.<\/p>\n
ETU State Organiser Stuart Traill said today Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey was becoming “increasingly reckless and desperate” to shift Federal responsibilities.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe news today that Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey will give States an ultimatum to sell profitable power assets that generate $1.5 billion in profits and other State assets or lose funding is the actions of a bully boy, stand-over man that should enrage Queenslanders and strengthen their resolve to save our profitable assets,\u201d Mr Traill said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow dare Mr Hockey basically say to the people of Queensland if you want State-owned, affordable, safe and reliable electricity, your kids will still die on unsafe roads? It\u2019s a disgusting ultimatum. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe elect out State Government to manage our assets and provide services in the best interests of Queenslanders, not meekly accept ultimatums and blackmail from the Federal Government. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe know that polling consistently shows that Queenslanders don\u2019t support asset sales with opposition running between 70 per cent and 80 per cent in most cases.<\/p>\n
\u201cQueenslanders voted against the last round of asset sales and they will do the same again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Traill said while he hoped Mr Nicholls would do the right thing, he held out little hope.<\/p>\n
“We have it on good authority Mr Nicholls is not shy when coming forward that he wants to sell assets,” Mr Traill said.<\/p>\n
“The latest example was in Gladstone earlier this week where he was putting the acid on Mayors to support the selling of assets or miss out on project funding.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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