Time is running out for Annastacia Palaszczuk to backflip on her damaging refusal to provide coronavirus relief grants to small businesses. Months after the coronavirus crisis began, Queensland is the only state in the country with no direct grant support program for struggling small businesses. LNP Leader Deb Frecklington said many small businesses would struggle…
Sunshine Coast State MPs have backed a four-stage plan for re-opening the local economy to give businesses certainty, calling for businesses to give their feedback. The Sunshine Coast team are taking the plan across their Coast business communities, asking local businesses to have their say, while pressure mounts on the State Government to act. Shadow…
LNP Shadow Minister for Small Business Fiona Simpson today said Queensland businesses urgently needed a clear road map to protect jobs and reopen. Ms Simpson said the Labor Government must give greater clarity about how and when businesses, which are currently closed or restricted due to COVID-19, can operate and under what guidelines. “It’s Small…
Annastacia Palaszczuk is letting Queensland small businesses fend for themselves, as interstate governments lead the way by providing crucial financial support during the coronavirus pandemic. LNP Shadow Minister for Small Business Fiona Simpson said Queensland is the only state that doesn’t provide direct grants to small businesses. “Annastacia Palaszczuk needs to immediately introduce rapid emergency…
Queenslanders forced to stay home during the coronavirus restrictions should be able to unlock their own skills with free online training courses, the LNP said today. LNP Leader Deb Frecklington called on the Palaszczuk Labor Government to work with private training providers and TAFE to offer a range of short online training courses approved by…
Flaws in the Palaszczuk Labor Government’s COVID-19 package for business must be urgently fixed to allow recently-founded firms to apply for interest-free loans. Shadow Small Business Minister Fiona Simpson said many firms had been shocked to discover that they can only access the loans if they were founded before July 2017. “These loans are meant…
The LNP has called on the Palaszczuk Labor Government to support casual workers who are losing work in the COVID-19 pandemic to reskill into demand areas, such as the health and wellbeing of elderly Queenslanders. LNP Shadow Minister for Employment, Small Business, Training and Skills Development Fiona Simpson raised the issue in Queensland Parliament today…
Reports that the Palaszczuk Labor Government are releasing a State-wide juvenile crime plan that ignores the Sunshine Coast has been attacked as a political joke. State MP for Maroochydore Fiona Simpson said that reports 10 centres would get funding but not the Sunshine Coast, where juvenile crime issues had made the Maroochydore Bus Station a…
Queensland has recorded a dramatic drop in the number of young people completing apprenticeships and traineeships as Labor’s skills crisis worsens. Data released by the National Centre for Vocational and Educational Training (NCVER) shows since Annastacia Palaszczuk was elected, completions have fallen by more 20.7 per cent and there are 11 per cent fewer…
Member for Maroochydore Fiona Simpson has questioned the Labor Premier’s priorities for spending $250m of taxpayer’s money on a controversial cash bonus to the public sector while failing to fund the Sunshine Coast’s rail duplication. “How can the Premier cry poor for the rail duplication and blame other people for her failure to fund 50%…