Queensland parliament updates: Youth ‘circuit breaker’ bill to pass

In some of the happenings after dark yesterday, Labor’s flagged motion criticising the government for Friday’s credit rating downgrade and calling for the “true cost” of each Olympic venue was flipped on its head.

Through the magic of the Crisafulli LNP’s majority, the motion was changed to instead condemn the decisions of former Labor government figures still in shadow cabinet which “led to the credit rating downgrade”, and passed.

Not mentioned by Treasurer David Janetzki was his concession from Friday that had he and his government taken politically sensitive actions like raising taxes, cutting spending or reigning in some infrastructure spending, the downgrade could have been avoided .