The Greens are demanding credit for Queensland Labor’s last minute ‘promise’ to spend $1.4 billion providing ‘free’ lunches to primary schools across the state.
It is a strange thing to offer the electorate during a financial crisis.
Labor might see it as a vote-winning gift to struggling parents, but most taxpayers, including parents who prefer to feed their own children, might view it as being robbed by Labor to provide food for other people’s children.
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