Labor accuses LNP of inflating project blowouts to claim future wins [Video]

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Queensland’s Labor has accused the new LNP government of seeking and sharing inflated cost estimates of major projects to enable it to claim future success reining-in budgets.

Opposition Leader Steven Miles fronted media in Brisbane on Thursday where he was asked about one of the most recent examples in the rebuild of a trouble-plagued dam near Bundaberg.

“Are they simply saying to Treasury, ‘oh, give us the biggest number that you can right now, so that when we come in below that number, we look better than them [Labor]’,” Miles said.

The LNP has accused Labor under former Premier Steven Miles of being aware of, and not being upfront with the public about, project cost overruns it claims to have uncovered since winning government.Credit: Photograph Joe Ruckli | Australian Financial Review

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