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October 5th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
AAP
Liberal National Party (LNP) leader Campbell Newman says he and his wife might give up some of their financial interests because of continued government attacks.
Mr Newman on Wednesday called a press conference amid new media reports about his personal finances.
The Courier-Mail newspaper reported a family company, Frome Holdings, owns two beachfront units in a luxury complex at Port Douglas that rent for up to $500 a night.
Mr Newman is a shareholder in the company.
The government has been calling on Mr Newman to make a full declaration of his pecuniary interests and those of his wife Lisa.
The call followed revelations a company linked to his wife had touted unsuccessfully for up to $30 million-a-year of disaster-related state government business after January’s floods.
Mr Newman released an updated interest register on September 22. It includes Frome Holdings but does not directly disclose the two Port Douglas units.
Mr Newman told the press conference he did not need to declare the units because he did not receive any income from them, despite being a shareholder of Frome Holdings.
He said he and his wife were now considering severing their ties with family entities because of the media attention generated by “Anna Bligh’s dirt unit”.
He said his wife would make her own decision on that.
“She’s an independent, strong-willed woman,” he told reporters on the Gold Coast.
“It’s not up to me and would be inappropriate for me as a husband to tell her what to do, but that is something she’ll consider.
“I say quite happily today that I’m more than happy to relinquish my share in my mother’s company.
“And Lisa, I would imagine, would be happy to relinquish her directorship, and we can do that today, and that just shows we have no financial interest in this matter.”
Mr Newman accused the government of sleazy actions in helping generate stories on his family’s financial interests.
“Queensland is run today by drunks, punks and desperados, headed by Anna Bligh with her dirt unit,” he said.
But Deputy Premier Andrew Fraser said the government only wanted Mr Newman to adhere to the same rules as MPs, even though the former Brisbane lord mayor is yet to be elected to parliament.
“The rules we are asking Campbell Newman to abide by are the rules that apply to me, that apply to the leader of the opposition … and for someone who wants to be the alternative premier, then it’s got to be good enough for him to play by those rules,” he told reporters in Canberra.
“In the end, Queenslanders are entitled to know what his financial interests are because it’s directly relevant to the way he would do the job.”
Mr Fraser acknowledged Mr Newman was not legally obligated to release the information as he was only a candidate, but he said there should be no reason why he wouldn’t.
“The only reason that he wouldn’t is because he wants to keep something secret, he wants to hide something, and I think Queenslanders are entitled to ask themselves what,” he said.
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