Premier defends MiHi buyback fiasco

THE Shadow Housing Minister raised the MiHi Grove payout fight during parliamentary question time, last week. Tim Mander said the Queensland Government must pay the Brassall flood victims what they say was first offered. Several homeowners at the 42-unit complex have said the Queensland Reconstruction Authority (QRA) vowed payouts of $300,000-plus but when it came […]

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