Liam Walsh

Oct 30, 2024 | abc.net.au | Liam Walsh

RACQ has suffered a massive spike in complaints as premiums as much as triple and insurance claims are mishandled so badly that one customer was robbed by the insurer's repair contractors. A 30 per cent rise in complaints was internally recorded as a fail, according to accounts published for RACQ, one of Queensland's highest profile organisations, with 1.7 million members. "RACQ has … lost the plot," long-term customer John Monks told the ABC.

Oct 28, 2024 | abc.net.au | Liam Walsh

David Crisafulli, Queensland's new premier, ran a troubled training organisation when it tried and failed to convince regulators that breaches of compliance rules had been fixed. Management at Southern Edge Training had shown an "inability … to take corrective actions that would achieve compliance", the federal regulator found.

Oct 24, 2024 | abc.net.au | Liam Walsh

The LNP has vowed to rein in almost $6.8 billion spent on consultants – flagging they would develop public servants' skill levels and wanted pay packages to be "competitive" against private organisations such as KPMG. The plan was derided as a fantasy by the incumbent ALP government ahead of Saturday's election, which tried raising the spectre of jobs cuts being required to make such numbers reality. Labor and the LNP's costings for election promises were unveiled on Thursday afternoon.

Oct 18, 2024 | abc.net.au | Liam Walsh |Kate McKenna

Queensland opposition leader David Crisafulli was not called to give evidence into court about a failed training organisation he had headed, even though liquidators summonsed other top brass to testify about the company's collapse. Liquidators have a "mandatory examination" power under the Corporations Act to call in officers of a company, such as directors, to question them under oath about what went wrong.

Sep 10, 2024 | abc.net.au | Liam Walsh

Phone taps of convicted Logan mayor Luke Smith have been blocked from public release, despite the recordings being tendered in court. The Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) covertly tapped the phone of Smith during its "Operation Front" probe into Logan council, which started in 2017. Recordings were tendered in court when Smith and seven other councillors were charged with fraud in 2019 over the sacking of the council's chief executive, who had complained about the mayor.