Queensland politics LIVE updates: Crisafulli to use national cabinet to call for consistent federal fuel information

With that, we’ll wrap up our blog coverage of state parliament today.

Here are the key takeaways from the week:

• Premier David Crisafulli will use his submission to Monday’s meeting of national cabinet to press the federal government to release information about fuel prices and supply levels nationwide. Fuel prices and security have dominated the focus of both the government and opposition throughout the week.
• Crisafulli has also suggested the country needs to be “brave” and pursue new oil refineries to reduce reliance on imports while confirming the state’s representative on the national fuel supply taskforce, Cross Border Commissioner Bob Gee, has held his first meeting with stakeholders with the issue.
• The government has introduced a bill responding to last year’s parliamentary inquiry into the state container refund scheme, most significantly rejecting a recommendation to have the productivity commission look into increasing the 10c refund.
• Labor has pushed the government on why it “failed” to protect an 18-year-old who died in state care after being allowed to live with a man in his 40s who “used her as a sexual object”. The matter is now under coronial investigation.
• Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie has announced a review of the state’s Industrial Relations Act and workers compensation scheme by Glenn Ferguson AM and Gary Black, set to begin this month, citing productivity and increases in psychological injury claims.
• Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek has apologised while revealing about 10,500 state school teachers had been underpaid a total of about $8.7 million (or $830 on average) after a “human error” in the calculation of award rate rises. Langbroek also slotted last-minute amendments to overhaul the James Cook University Council into an unrelated bill.

MPs won’t return to parliament for their next three-day sitting until April 21. We’ll see you back here then!

The only other matter on the notice paper this week is a supplementary appropriation bill – which approves unforeseen expenditure between annual budget bills.

Already provided to departments and the parliament through the consolidated fund, the spending is still required to be approved by MPs under financial accountability laws.

The 2024-25 figures being signed off this week are a total of $5.7 billion (including $5.4 million incurred by the legislative assembly and parliamentary service itself).

Treasurer David Janetzki has sought to sheet most of the blame for the figure to what he described as the “deception” of the former Labor government for hiding project blowouts and failing to provide ongoing funding for various measures.

Shadow treasurer Shannon Fentiman said the spending also included workplace agreement bargaining outcomes and expenditure on the Crisafulli government’s election commitments.

“The Treasurer spent more time during his speech on his own appropriation bills talking about Labor than he did about what his government will do to manage the budget and the huge challenges ahead for the budget,” Fentiman said.

Good morning, and welcome back to our coverage of another parliamentary sitting week here in Queensland.

After the passage of the government’s electrical safety bill on Wednesday night, and the introduction of e-mobility laws, there’s only an appropriation bill on the agenda for today.

But if the last two days are anything to go by, there’s sure to be plenty of talk of fuel prices.

We’ll bring you everything you need to know from ministerial statements, question time and beyond.