LEASED ASSETS - AS GOOD AS SOLD

Tim Nicolls (LNP)

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​GOVERNMENT LIES ALL ROUND 
WE’VE BEEN SOLD OUT 
BY LABOR and LNP

Curtis Pitt Labor MP

TIM NICHOLLS (LNP) (in opposition in 2010) RAILED AGAINST LABOR for leasing state assets –
"as good as selling the farm’

CURTIS PITT (Labor) (in opposition in 2014) RAILED AGAINST the LNP’s weasel words, broken promises and sale of state assets (Aurizon shares):
"The LNP in this term of office already have sold around $10 billion in assets business ….’’
"A change of language has been a political tactic, people shouldn't be confused by this … It's obviously a sale because the Government's expected proceeds from these transactions has increased."
"We need to stop calling it a lease plan and call it for what it is, full-scale privatisation."  ABC Radio Brisbane 2014

SO: LABOR AND LNP AGREE: 
 Leasing public assets is ‘’the same’’ as selling them
​AND TODAY? Labor in government 2018:

Curtis Pitt MP, former Treasurer, strangely silent when Labor proposes to sell off (lease) chunks of dedicated national park.
Not one word from LABOR'S Curtis Pitt about LABOR'S own broken promises, weasel words, or LABOR'S  "changed language".​

LABOR’S BROKEN PROMISES INCLUDE:

• the broken promise to restore the world-heritage related Coastal legislation abolished by Kate Jones (Bligh government) - which LABOR untruthfully blamed on the LNP; and
• the repeated lies and broken promises to restore the Newman-gutted Nature Conservation Act (NCA). The NCA was drafted in 1992 to enshrine in law the long-standing Cardinal Principle of national park management (Primary Purpose: Conservation. In the public interest – not for sale).

Labor lied repeatedly from 2014 on they would ‘reverse’ the Newman amendments to the NCA (Bill Byrne’s words in parliament); or, to put it another way, restore the Cardinal Principle of national park management (Labor Party pre-election promises twice-over). 
Labor lied - they did not make the re-amendments they had repeatedly promised.
They even claimed untruthfully they had restored the Cardinal Principle – when they hadn’t.
Labor’s Minister Miles and his Environment department bureaucrats looked ENGO representatives in the eye and untruthfully said ‘we have restored the Cardinal Principle’.  Did they think we wouldn’t notice?

QUESTION for LABOR  
If the leasing of public assets was ‘’ full-scale privatisation” in 2014, 
why isn’t the leasing out of national parks ‘’ full-scale privatisation” now?