Springborg says Qld Govt's blueprint just 'spin and rhetoric'
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State Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg has scoffed at Premier Anna Bligh's new blueprint for Queensland.
Ms Bligh says the Queensland Government's latest vision, called Towards Q2, aims to make the state strong, green, smart, healthy and fair.
She promised to set targets for her Government such as cutting the state's carbon footprint by a third and making hospital waiting lists the shortest in the country.
Mr Springborg says the Q2 plan sounds like spin and rhetoric and an attempt to re-badge a government that he calls a miserable failure.
He says voters have too long to wait.
"She's [Ms Bligh's] expecting the people of Queensland to believe that they'll be able to then judge her Government in the year 2020, which is in fact 12 years' time," he said.
"Q2 is in actual fact second best - Q2 is too cute for Queenslanders."
Mr Springborg delivered a speech today at a Conservative Club breakfast in Brisbane.
He said the Western Australian election result, which has left Labor and the Liberals negotiating with the Nationals to form government, demonstrates that the Opposition there does not have the cohesion of the Liberal-National Party in Queensland.
