Health Minister Yvette D'Ath accepted free storage from a businesswoman whose company had a lucrative deal with the minister's department, government records have revealed.
abc.net.au/news/qld-health-minister-yvette-dath-vaccine-clinic-marlene-newcombe/101692352It's one of the briefest of entries buried among the free football tickets, airline lounge memberships and other gifts that Queensland Health Minister Yvette D'Ath declared receiving on her register of interests last year.
"I'm incredibly excited to see that we will have a community-based vaccination hub right here in our local community," she said in an online article on the Moreton Daily, which lists its contact address as being at the same Elizabeth Avenue location.Ms D'Ath did not answer questions about whether any of her furniture was ever stored at this location.
Shane Newcombe with Mayor Peter Flannery , Kerry Maree Lopez from Brisbane Whale Watching, Health Minister Yvette D'Ath, Tourism Industry Development Minister Sterling Hinchliffe and Karl Winchester, December 2021.According to the open data records, Ms D'Ath's department paid Colbury a total of about $419,000 in the past financial year.
The sole shareholder of Colbury is another company, Newcombe Holdings Pty Ltd, which has Ms Newcombe's son Shane as one of its directors. Real estate records also show Ms D'Ath selling another residential property that she had owned for years, in about September last year.
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