{"id":245014,"date":"2025-10-27T22:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T22:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/245014\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T22:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T22:21:11","slug":"sacked-planning-expert-questions-overhaul-of-reconstruction-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/245014\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacked planning expert questions overhaul of reconstruction board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An environmental planning expert sacked from the board of the body responsible for rebuilding after natural disasters in Queensland says she is worried about the new board\u2019s lack of expertise.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dr Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes served just one year on the board.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/667d84440600067f4c3b87b23b0a08c8c4b13471e867a6b6c212814c9ad93558.jpeg\" height=\"425\" width=\"283\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dr Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes served just one year on the board.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes voiced her concerns after an investigation by this masthead into board changes made during the state government\u2019s first year in power, which found 20 former LNP politicians, candidates and members of the party executive had been handed roles.<\/p>\n<p>The Queensland Reconstruction Authority\u2019s (QRA) board was completely overhauled in September, with all of its members shown the door and Jane McNamara, a former north Queensland mayor who sits on an LNP policy committee, installed as chair.<\/p>\n<p>Dedekorkut-Howes, from Griffith University, said she was completely surprised when disaster recovery minister Ann Leahy called in September to say her services were no longer needed just one year into her three-year term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe minister told me it had nothing to do with our performance, she thanked me for my services, and she said the government had decided to take a different approach,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Dedekorkut-Howes, world renowned disaster risk reduction expert Dr Robert Glasser was cut from the board.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The board\u2019s new chair, former Flinders Shire\u00a0mayor Jane McNamara, pictured with Scott Morrison.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fb9c88fc7b31cb7b8e9a538435144c5396b9ff9e.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The board\u2019s new chair, former Flinders Shire\u00a0mayor Jane McNamara, pictured with Scott Morrison.Credit: Derek Barry\/North West Star<\/p>\n<p>Former Queensland Police Service Commissioner Katarina Carroll, who was the board\u2019s chair, retired Local Government Association of Queensland chief executive Greg Hallam, and the ex-Burdekin mayor Lynette McLaughlin were also let go.<\/p>\n<p>The overhaul landed former Flinders Shire mayor Jane McNamara in the chair\u2019s seat, and brought in retired brigadier Cris Anstey, Central Highlands councillor Gail Godwin-Smith and former Burdekin councillor Dr Kaylee Boccalatte as members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An environmental planning expert sacked from the board of the body responsible for rebuilding after natural disasters in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128],"class_list":["post-245014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}