Gary Hardgrave (Moreton, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

The key thing is that everything the Brisbane City Council do is in fact administered by Queensland government laws and regulations, and the Queensland government again is prioritising expenditure on bureaucracies despite the record amounts of money that are being sent. In fact, I have to say that I would prefer to quarantine a whole slice of the GST money going to Queensland and to give it to local authorities because Brisbane City, Gold Coast City, the Sunshine Coast councils, Paul Pisasale in Ipswich City, Beaudesert, Boonah, Logan, Don Seccombe in Redlands, and all of the other shires have a far better idea—

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