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March 15th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The Queensland Labor government’s boost to emergency funding, a day before the final report on last year’s flood disaster is due, has been met with scepticism.
Premier Anna Bligh on Thursday promised an additional $35 million over four years to volunteer emergency organisations, ahead of the Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry’s final recommendations.
Bondoola Rural Fire Brigade chairman George Siefert, 75, interrupted Ms Bligh’s announcement to warn that centralised bureaucracy was killing off Queensland’s volunteer services.
“We do not have the time or the expertise to deal with the mountains of red tape and paperwork they are throwing at us continually,” he said.
Ms Bligh said she understood his frustration, explaining that regulations had been tightened following the Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria.
“Once the election has passed, it (the promise) will all be forgotten,” Mr Siefert later told reporters.
Ms Bligh denied she was pre-empting the final floods report or attempting to stymie any negative repercussions for Labor.
“With or without a commission of inquiry, we know that the great volunteers out at the front line need to be well equipped,” she told reporters at Rockhampton.
The announcement was in response to recommendations made in the interim flood report in August, she said.
The final report could open an avenue for legal action against the state government if it appears the operating manual for Wivenhoe Dam was not followed.
Ms Bligh on Thursday refused to be drawn on what impact the report might have on the final week of her re-election bid.
“I’ve said all along I want one thing and that is the truth,” she said.
The Liberal National Party (LNP) described her announcement as a “hollow promise”.
“Thousands of volunteers have walked (away) in recent years, sick of the bullying, mismanagement and neglect of the service,” emergency services spokesman John-Paul Langbroek said.
On her return to Brisbane, Ms Bligh called an urgent media conference to reveal what she believes is more proof of her opponent’s “murky dealings” with a developer.
Having previously admitted she lacked the evidence to refer LNP Leader Campbell Newman to the Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) over donations from developer Philip Usher, she has now sent them documents showing his in-laws shared a business address with Mr Usher.
Mr Usher made a series of donations to Mr Newman’s mayoral re-election fund before Brisbane City Council approved a controversial apartment complex.
Mr Newman claims the Woolloongabba towers passed all the usual approval processes, and Mr Usher refuses to comment.
Meanwhile Ms Bligh has, for the first time, publicly acknowledged she is likely to lose her job on March 24.
“I certainly know I’ve got a very steep uphill battle, and right now the most likely result is that Labor will not win the election,” she told Fairfax Media.
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