Jackie Trad referred to Ethics Committee over investment property row

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An investment property bought near the $5.4 billion Cross River Rail project continues to haunt the Deputy Premier, who, despite being cleared by the state's corruption watchdog, may now face Parliament’s Ethics Committee.

, Speaker Curtis Pitt said CCC acting chairman Marshall Irwin wrote to him after the corruption watchdog finalised its assessment into the matter, asserting there were matters Parliament should consider and determine whether Ms Trad should be referred to the Ethics Committee.

Mr Pitt said after careful consideration, he decided to refer the matter to the Ethics Committee for further assessment. "I have reached the conclusion that there are sufficient questions of fact to be determined against the evidence such that it would be prudent to refer the matters to the Ethics Committee for further consideration," he said.

"I also wish to stress that I have not taken this decision lightly, and I have given this decision lengthy and serious consideration.""The Deputy Premier will cooperate fully with the ethics committee, as she did with the CCC," the spokesperson said. "The CCC found there was no evidence of corrupt or dishonest conduct in the Deputy Premier's late lodgement of paperwork relating to the purchase of a property.The Woolloongabba house was

 

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why doesn't she resign? and Plucka too...

Again, is this what QLD tax payers are paying for?. Is this the standard of politician that people deserve and pay for. Where is the leadership to move on these lemons. couriermail AnnastaciaMP

You have all been Trad!!!

Queenslanders need to move quickly and set new targets to be competely and totally Palasczcuk and Trad free by 2020!!! They have been an horriffic waste of time!!!

'Ethics' and the Queensland government all in the one sentence! I`d like to see that.

She should have just used fraudulent documents like AngusTaylorMP did. There wouldn't be an investigation

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