Photo: Glenn Hunt Adrian Bloomfield, a vice president of the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission and founding chairman of the Local Government Remuneration Tribunal, told Fairfax Media he had found the “questionable accounting practice” in 2008 and raised it with Mr Pitt at a formal meeting in December of that year. Then-premier Anna Bligh and Warren Pitt, who served as local government minister in her cabinet, pictured in 2007.
But according to the senior judicial official who raised the issue with then-local government minister Warren Pitt, “nothing came of it”. Local Government Minister Stirling Hinchliffe’s predecessor in the Bligh government was warned 10 years ago about “irregular” accounting by Ipswich City Council after the city’s footpaths were revalued upwards by $12 million, an amount claimed as “income” in its annual financial statement.
