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June 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Premier Campbell Newman has used a $45,000 television ad spot paid for by the previous Labor state government to tout a report on the state’s financial affairs by former federal treasurer Peter Costello.
In the one-minute advertisement, scheduled for 7.30pm on commercial free-to-air networks, Mr Newman urged Queenslanders to read the Commission of Audit’s interim report produced by Costello, a minister in the Howard government.
Without referring to job cuts in the public service or any specific programs which have been axed, Mr Newman says the government has to tighten its belt and ‘‘tough’’ decisions must be made.
The air time was purchased by the Bligh government before the March 24 election and was meant to be used as a public service announcement on the building boost program.
A spokesman for Mr Newman said it was a case of ‘‘use it or lose it,’’ and the government decided the Commission of Audit report was important enough to warrant the public message.
‘‘The Premier’s message was produced to draw public attention to the Commission of Audit report and encourage people to read it,’’ he said.
‘‘The Government was not charged for airtime. It was credit for airtime that had been booked and paid for by the Labor government for its disastrous building boost program.
‘‘We could not get a refund on the cost – if we didn’t use the airtime, we lost it.
‘‘It was produced at minimal cost to the Government. The figure is still being finalised and is likely to be around $2,000, including a charge for the standard regulatory approvals.’’
The ad has been criticised by the Labor party, with a spokesman saying it should have been used for a public service announcement and not something that is blatantly political.
Shadow Treasurer Curtis Pitt said that if Mr Newman was going to use it to address the state then he should put a figure on the redundancies the government is planning for the public service during the advertisement.
He also criticised the Commission of Audit Interim report.
“The Premier needs to be honest with the people of Queensland and spell out the wild assumptions used by Peter Costello to deliver the highly political $100 billion debt figure,’’ he said
‘‘That figure was devised after Mr Costello assumed no government elected in March would touch existing outlays and debt, and that the next five years would be a carbon-copy of the past five years with the same global financial crisis, historic drought, and devastating string of natural disasters.’’
In the ad Mr Newman likens the state’s budget to a family budget.
‘‘We need to find ways to cut our spending and it must be done,’’ he said.
‘‘I’m determined to return prosperity, opportunity and reward to the lives of all Queenslanders.
‘‘Together we can make this happen.
‘‘I urge all Queenslanders to read the [Commission of Audit] report.’’
In the ad, Mr Newman leans back on a wooden desk with an Australian flag and a Queensland flag flanking him.
He speaks to the camera about the interest on the state’s debt costing billions of dollars a year and said it was money better spent on hiring more doctors, nurses, teachers and police officers.
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