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February 23rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda LNP leader Campbell Newman has again refused to identify savings from Labor’s treasury statistics to cover the costs of his campaign promises.
As Brisbane’s lord mayor, Mr Newman’s LNP team achieved $159 million in savings over four years from 2004 to 2008 in a review by consultants AT Kearney.
In a second savings drive the council launched in 2009, the consultants identified possible savings of $695 million by 2026.
That figure includes the possible sale of council-owned land and buildings, plus measures to wind back the size of the council’s workforce, an issue attacked by Labor councillors in Brisbane.
Mr Newman in Mackay declined to give an idea of the scale of savings he plans to find from the state government if the LNP won office.
However he repeated his promise to meet fund campaign commitments from savings.
“All our commitments will be funded from savings,” he said.
“(Former Auditor General) Mr Len Scanan will be verifying those, signing off on those and they will be presented to the people of Queensland prior to the election.”
However, Mr Newman refused to provide a figure today.
“Let me say this, this is a very wasteful government,” he said.
Mr Newman said Labor councillors doubted savings could be found, however he said the outcome was that savings were able to be found.
“I remember the then Labor deputy mayor, David Hinchliffe, said the BCC was running on the smell of an oily rag under Labor,” he said.
“We found, as you acknowledged, huge savings in the BCC and that is what we will do again.”
Labor estimates the LNP have made promises of $5.5 billion, for the 2012 campaign, including $1 billion to return the stamp duty, which they have promised to return.
However, Mr Newman rejected the $5.5 billion figure by saying “that’s just what (Labor Treasurer) Andrew Fraser said”.
Mr Newman said he would follow the example of Liberal New South Wales Liberal Premier Barry O’Farrell, who identified $8 billion in savings in his state in their first four-year term.
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