{"id":27395,"date":"2015-04-12T17:54:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T07:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nofibs.com.au\/?p=27395"},"modified":"2019-04-13T23:56:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T13:56:13","slug":"cops-and-journos-the-qldweekly-blogazine-qldpol-qldaah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/cops-and-journos-the-qldweekly-blogazine-qldpol-qldaah\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops and journos – The #QldWeekly blogazine: #qldpol @Qldaah"},"content":{"rendered":"
The week in Queensland politics.
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Table of contents<\/h3>\n
Cops and journos.<\/a><\/h6>\n
(April 11, 2015) –\u00a0LNP fear donation declaration repeal.<\/a><\/h6>\n
(April 10, 2015) –\u00a0Banana crisis.<\/a><\/h6>\n
(April 9, 2015) – Bleijie’s boot camps a waste.<\/a><\/h6>\n
(April 8, 2015) – Stop\u00a0the librarians.<\/a><\/h6>\n
(April 7, 2015) –\u00a0Crisis talks after tragic Easter road toll.<\/a><\/h6>\n

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Cops and journos<\/h3>\n

Much of the week in Queensland politics was dominated by the Billy Gordon<\/a> case. We’ve covered that at a separate @NoFibs<\/a> blog, “The media trial of Billy Gordon”<\/a>. So,\u00a0what else happened on the weekly political landscape?<\/p>\n

People were very unhappy over revelations that the Queensland police service had received donations from multiple corporations, including The Courier Mail.<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>Four months ago, derision erupted over the Twitterverse when photos emerged of Queensland police vehicles with Santos decals on their panels parked in front of a Northern New South Wales road sign. Since then, journalists have been trying to find out the extent of all corporate donations\u00a0to the Queensland police service.<\/p>\n

However, a full and frank disclosure was thwarted this week with the release of a dossier showing money received but\u00a0without the corporate\u00a0names to match\u00a0the\u00a0amounts. The document did show sponsorship where\u00a0the name of the corporation was included in the title, for example, “The Courier Mail Police Scholarship”.<\/p>\n

New Queensland Police Minister\u00a0Jo-Ann Miller<\/a>\u00a0took a moderate approach to the cops and journos dispute and ordered that all future sponsorship be fully declared. However, police command will not have to reveal anything further on past transactions.<\/p>\n

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@Qldaah<\/a> That's right David.<\/p>\n

— Josh Bavas (@JoshBavas) April 8, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n