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September 28th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
AAP
A poll showing the Queensland opposition will romp to election victory means it’s even more important for its leader to fully detail his financial interests, the premier says.
The latest Newspoll shows Labor’s primary vote has slumped to 27 per cent, only a point above its pre-Christmas low.
If the trend is replicated at the ballot box, Campbell Newman’s Liberal National Party will trounce Labor with 61 per cent of the vote after preferences.
Premier Anna Bligh admits the results aren’t good for Labor, but says it makes it even more imperative for Mr Newman to release a signed declaration of all of his financial interests.
“Look there’s no doubt if there was an election on Saturday we would lose and Campbell Newman is without a doubt the frontrunner right now,” she told reporters in Charleville on Wednesday.
“I think that means he has an even bigger responsibility to start answering some of the questions people have about his financial dealings.”
It’s been revealed that a company set up by the family of Mr Newman’s wife, Lisa, made a pitch for up to $30 million a year in disaster recovery business.
The company made an unsolicited bid to provide recovery expertise to the Queensland Reconstruction Authority after the January floods, but was never awarded any work.
Mrs Newman was the secretary of the company – initially registered as Invictus Solutions but now trading as Majella Global Technologies Asia Pacific – for the first three weeks after it was set up.
Mr Newman has denied knowing of the pitch and said neither he nor his wife reaped any financial benefits from the company, headed by Mrs Newman’s brother Seb Monsour.
“This was a proposal put to the Labor state government by Seb Monsour that I had no knowledge of and took place while I was lord mayor of Brisbane,” he told The Australian newspaper.
The revelation follows Mr Newman’s release of his and his wife’s declaration of pecuniary interests to the Brisbane City Council in the past fortnight after public pressure.
But the LNP candidate for Ashgrove has refused to update it, nor fill out a state register, arguing he is not an MP and is not legally required to.
Ms Bligh says voters need full disclosure from the election front-runner after Wednesday’s revelation.
“Mr Newman must have known that his wife and her family were setting up a disaster management recovery company and the idea that he didn’t know they were seeking $30 million-a-year contracts I don’t think passes the plausibility test,” she said.
Opposition treasury spokesman Tim Nicholls said the “revelation” had come from internal government documents as Labor “grubs” continued to “sling the sleaze”.
He said Mr Newman was frustrated by the government’s attacks and its “hurtful comments”.
The LNP leader was not his brother-in-law’s keeper and had done nothing wrong, Mr Nicholls said.
He called on all government ministers to publicly release their partner’s financial dealings.
“If the Labor party are insisting on this standard for Campbell Newman, then it is a standard they should apply to themselves and they are so far failing to do so,” he told reporters.
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