{"id":715018,"date":"2026-06-04T15:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/715018\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T15:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:28:12","slug":"queensland-parliament-as-it-happened-child-safety-report-e-bike-laws-in-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/715018\/","title":{"rendered":"Queensland parliament as it happened: Child safety report, e-bike laws in focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police Minister Dan Purdie says it\u2019s now a \u201cmatter for the CCC\u201d to determine if the findings of a new report into financial and governance issues in his agency is a failure of former police commissioners over a number of years under the former government.<\/p>\n<p>Purdie said the review, carried out by former public servant Neil Castles, found overspending, weak financial controls, and underfunding, and was tabled today after approval by Crime and Corruption Commission chair boss Bruce Barbour.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police Minister Dan Purdie.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8a5c1dc28a7f9239ac7757dc65a47606d9dc81c59d5d4fc6ab96c86479e59d7a.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Police Minister Dan Purdie.Courtney Kruk<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice on the front line were really concerned about the priorities of the former executive level team, and where they were focusing their resources and their attention, and we raised that in opposition,\u201d Purdie told reporters in a media event at state parliament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, today, what we\u2019ve tabled in parliament proves those officers who were raising that across the state while we\u2019re in opposition to be not only correct but [the issues were] probably worse than what anyone could have imagined.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police Minister Dan Purdie says it\u2019s now a \u201cmatter for the CCC\u201d to determine if the findings of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-715018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715018","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=715018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}