Many suspected Annastacia Palaszczuk would see-off the widely touted pretender to her Queensland throne by throwing former Attorney General Shannon Fentiman a literal hospital pass in making her the Minister in charge of a disastrous health system.
But Fentiman may have more than a wary Palaszczuk to worry about if her most recent performance is any guide.
It was a fair enough question and the answer of “not having that figure” begged the question of why she wasn’t sufficiently concerned or curious enough to ask the many senior bureaucrats and police within the speed dialling capacity of a senior Minister or her staff. It would be worrying enough if the failure to know the number of sexual assault victims were Fentiman’s only glaring knowledge void but she was just as clueless on the percentage of the 37,000 cases involving people who had died without any hope of justice since the DNA bungling began in 2008.
That very real possibility was either completely lost on the Minister, or she simply didn’t seem to rate the scenario as an issue.
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