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March 1st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Liberal National Party leader Campbell Newman believes he’s already complying with cabinet rules about his family’s financial interests.
But the man vying to become Queensland premier says he’ll make further changes if needed.
He’s told reporters neither he nor his wife own any shares in publicly listed companies, something banned under cabinet rules.
But a report in The Courier-Mail newspaper said Mr Newman was a director and shareholder in several private companies, including one that has shares in publicly listed Woolworths and Stirling Resources.
Mr Newman has told reporters his reading of the cabinet handbook led him to believe he and his wife were already compliant with the rules.
“I don’t own publicly listed company shares. My wife owns no publicly listed company shares,” he said on Thursday.
“If I become the premier we will comply with the cabinet handbook and if that requires a change it will occur.
“But basically from everything I’ve seen, there is no requirement to change anything under the current rules.”
Earlier, Premier Anna Bligh accused the LNP leader of planning to throw the rule book out the window.
She also said Mr Newman must explain why a developer and associates donated $72,000 to his council re-election fund, when he was still Brisbane lord mayor, under seven different names.
The donations were made before the Brisbane City Council gave developer Philip Usher approval last year to build two high-rise towers in Brisbane that exceeded height limits.
“Every time Mr Newman is asked questions about his financial dealings he becomes evasive and he’s now becoming abusive,” Ms Bligh told the ABC on Thursday.
Mr Newman – who has accused Ms Bligh of “clinging to smear and innuendo like a drunk clinging to a light pole” – said on Thursday there was nothing untoward about the development approval.
“As I said yesterday, it was an open and transparent process,” he said.
“It was recommended by the independent planning officers of council and it was a three-year process. I can’t be clearer than that.”
He said it was “fascinating” that Labor’s claims about his finances were only being shared now he was running for premier and not while he was lord mayor.
“Week after week we see Anna Bligh throwing these hand grenades over. It’s just more of her tricks and everyone (reporters) buys this nonsense,” he said.
“But I know people out there aren’t buying it …”
He said his pecuniary interests were an open book.
“All my pecuniary interests have been declared,” he said, adding Ms Bligh hadn’t made the pecuniary interests of her cabinet’s spouses public.
“I’ve made my interests of my spouse public. The spouses of Anna Bligh’s cabinet all own shares, all have property interests.”
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