Nationals Senator Barnaby Joyce, who is currently touring central Queensland with the Member for Dawson, The Hon De-Anne Kelly MP, has said the chickens are finally coming home to roost for a premier who’s gone to sleep at the infrastructure wheel.

“Mr Beattie’s Labor Party management is a comedy of fiascos, from its capital, Brisbane, running out of water to, now, one of its major resource players threatening to leave the state.

“I’m currently in Bowen where we were supposed to have an aluminium refinery from Chalco yet neither sight nor sound has been heard from Mr Beattie as to where these negotiations are heading and it sounds like a deal gone bad.

“Similarly, we have an excess coal loading facility at Abbot Point but we are missing 70km of railway line from Goonyella to get the coal to Abbot Point. Meanwhile, ships are parked on top of each other off Mackay at an overstretched facility.

“We have another mystery of the missing dam Urannah. In his infinite wisdom Mr Beattie is going to move 20 000 mega litres of water up the Don River at a cost of approximately $320 million while God is providing 1 million mega litres of water down the Don River for free.

“Sooner or later the tragic reality of this mismanagement will hit home. Maybe it will be when we wake up and realise we have a $12 billion debt hocked up on the states credit card which has delivered us nothing but the pathos of this Labor party circus.” Senator Joyce said.