Sky News host Chris Kenny says Queensland Premier AnnastaciaMP does not need expensive pollsters to tell her not to “kill the joint” because she’s convinced any infection is a failure.
Sky News host Chris Kenny says Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk does not need expensive pollsters to tell her not to “kill the joint” because she’s convinced any infection is a failure. It’s been reported the Department of Premier and Cabinet hired pollsters to gauge voter approval of the government’s COVID-19 restrictions. The premier’s department spent more than $500,000 on the polls and a political strategist to shape Queensland’s economic recovery out of COVID-19.
Mr Kenny said this was a “shocking misuse of taxpayer’s money” and clearly contradicted her constant assurances that she is acting solely on medical advice. “Now it looks like she also acts on the advice of taxpayer funded pollsters,” he said. “You need a poll to see how people are doing in lockdown or without our jobs? “Let me give you the big tip premier, I reckon they’ll tell you it sucks.
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