Before Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk flew to the Amalfi Coast for a holiday, another episode in the crime debate may have revealed the new normal in Queensland.
While the first two on that list can boast broad and long-standing support, none were formally presented to the committees by the government for consideration as part of proposed laws.
Non-government MPs from the LNP, the Greens and Katter’s Australian Party, to Noosa independent Sandy Bolton, rightly fumed at the move.Former Speaker and Labor minister John Mickel, now an adjunct associate professor at the Queensland University of Technology, told me last week any government was setting a dangerous precedent by defying proper process.
“That, in my view, is a slippery slope,” he said. A slope able to be exploited by others should they hold power, or leading to unintended consequences through rushed laws.“So in the cold, hard light of day at the end of this ... what the government should do is take a deep breath and go back and revert to the committee system.”
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