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NAIF UNDER FIRE OVER LACK OF QUEENSLANDERS ON BOARD

THE ALP has called for Queensland representation to be restored to the board of the Northern Australian Infrastructure Facility and for the fund to explain why it decided to refuse lending to a major Townsville hotel project.

The party’s spokesman for Northern Australia, Senator Murray Watt, was commenting on revelations the fund had encouraged the Morris Group to apply for a loan for an $80m five-star hotel and super yacht marina next to its Ville Resort-casino and then knocked them back.

“Queensland deserves to have representatives on the board that will fight for local projects, and the NAIF needs to get on with its job,”