The committees holding Queensland’s sole house of parliament to account were last overhauled in 2010. Opposition parties suggest now is the time for a review.
Speaker Curtis Pitt has extended an olive branch to the opposition for a fresh review of the decade-old committee system responsible for holding Queensland’s sole house of parliament to account.
The budget scrutiny follows a year of intense focus on government accountability, culminating in findings from Goss-era public sector reform chief Professor Peter Coaldrake of an, and a government that trivialised parliamentary committees. “As a parliament, we should not be afraid to regularly review our processes to ensure that parliament can operate in an accountable and transparent way,” he said in a statement.
Crisafulli was not drawn on whether he would commit to the bipartisan approach flagged by Pitt. The Greens, Katter’s Australian Party and independent MPs have also repeatedly raised similar concerns about estimates and the broader committee structure.
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