Brisbane news live: LNP threatens to replace independent Games body

As the parliamentary inquiry into the state government’s bill to establish a long-promised (but denied for some time) independent body for Games infrastructure gets underway, the LNP remains unconvinced.

While joining Labor in ruling out a new Victoria Park stadium as recommended by the Quirk Review, LNP leader David Crisafulli said before the laws to create the body were passed he had set up his own stadium to provide a ​​to conduct a new 100-day evaluation. schedule.

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At the time he suggested that this would likely replace everything the government had put forward, and the concerns that the Information Commissioner has now raised about unnecessary exceptions to the right to information laws only seem to strengthen the LNP’s still undecided position.

Brisbane times posed questions to the opposition and received a response from the party’s Games spokesman Jarrod Bleijie, accusing the government of “repeating the same mistakes”.

“However, we will consider the legislation, but the LNP has consistently fought for over a thousand days for the creation of a truly independent Infrastructure Co-ordination Authority and we will accept nothing less than that.”