BLIGH Labor revealed this afternoon it was spending $112 million to make Queensland driver’s licences “look good”.
LNP Shadow Minister for Main Roads and Transport Fiona Simpson said she was amazed the Member for Ipswich, claimed to understand how low-income Queenslanders felt about high cost when she was about to double the cost of driver’s licences for little real reason other than to make them look good, more modern.
“Simply to make the licences look more modern is hardly a legitimate reason in the current climate to spend $112 million of tax payers’ money,” Ms Simpson said.
“I wonder what the battlers at Ipswich or anywhere in Queensland think about now having to fork-out double for a new driver’s licence, $150, on top of the extra nine to ten cents a litre they’re paying with Labor’s fuel tax and the near-doubling of rego fees in the past couple of years.
“I’ll bet the battling families at Booval and Bundamba aren’t too fussed with the Minister’s nonsense about bio-metric security.
“The Minister also admitted that for the first fortnight drivers will only have a paper receipt as their licence, which undermines her central claim that this change will deliver a more secure system.
“At a time when Bligh and Labor has a record state debt of more than $85 billion, I think most Queenslanders would believe their money could be far better spent.”