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June 8th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Queensland Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk will release Labor cabinet documents containing legal advice about the failed state health payroll system to the crown solicitor.
Health Minister Lawrence Springborg demanded Ms Palaszczuk turn over the documents after learning that legal advice was sought to determine if the health department’s software providers could be held liable.
The payroll bungle saw more than 60,000 Queensland Health staff overpaid more than $91 million.
Ms Palaszczuk agreed, in the public interest, to give the documents to the crown solicitor, but only if Mr Springborg couldn’t source them by other means.
She told parliament that, according to the cabinet handbook, he should have been able to access the documents.
“She has … tonight (Friday) provided the cabinet secretary with her approval to release the material to the crown solicitor in line with her commitment made in parliament on Thursday last week and in line with the protocols for accessing such documents from previous governments,” a spokesman for Ms Palaszczuk told AAP.
“We repeat that this issue could have been resolved a week ago if Mr Springborg had followed those same protocols.”
But a spokesman for Health Minister Lawrence Springborg said Ms Palaszczuk handed over the information on the proviso the government could not see it.
“She had the opportunity to provide it to the government and she’s actually ignored it,” spokesman Jake Smith said.
“We’ve tried to go and access it but we’ve learnt that she gave it with the proviso that the government was not allowed to see it.
“We have no idea what information has been handed over or indeed if it will ever be made public.”
Mr Smith said there is no guarantee the crown solicitor will provide that information to the government, which wants to ensure someone is held to account over the fiasco.
However, Ms Palaszczuk’s spokesman said the crown solicitor will be able to advise the government on the documents.
The March 2010 rollout of a new payroll system at Queensland Health led to thousands of workers being overpaid, underpaid, or not paid at all.
A KPMG audit put the cost of the debacle at more than $1.2 billion by 2017.
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