Queensland's Opposition Leader David Crisafulli ran a training organisation from December 2015 to April 2016.Mr Crisafulli has made his ties to small business a part of his political pitch to voters ahead of the October election.
He had also previously maintained the business had posted profits during the months he was there and he had worked to bring in new ownership, while not taking pay himself. His political narrative has included recounting how his parents' ownership of a north Queensland sugarcane farm and small business taught him the value of private enterprise.In 2015, he was seeking private sector work. He had just lost his local government minister's role and his seat representing Townsville's Mundingburra in the Newman LNP administration's wipe-out.
The collapse's timing was raised briefly in parliament and Mr Crisafulli, who returned to politics as shadow tourism minister, told his peers in March 2018 he had started at the company on the promise of new funds arriving. But directors have defences to insolvent trading allegations, including if they have reasonable grounds to believe a company is solvent.
He could not during his small-business period act as a lobbyist under state laws, preventing former ministers from lobbying for clients for two years in areas relating to their former official dealings.Premier Steven Miles has conceded his government is heading for defeat after the latest poll result delivered bad news ahead of the October state election.