Queensland opposition claims increasing fortnightly overruns in the state’s infamous health payroll system are proof the Palaszczuk government is not managing the issue effectively. Liberal National Party leader Tim Nicholls said his party inherited weekly over and underpayments of about $1.7 million and reduced that to about $600,000. But he said the situation was deteriorating under Labor, with new figures showing the pay cycle was misfiring by about $770,000 a fortnight. “This is a sign of a government that is taking its eye off the ball,” Mr Nicholls said. “Public administration is Labor’s Achilles’ heel.” The executive director of Queensland Health’s payroll portfolio Philip Hood said the department processed about $193 million worth of payments each fortnight.
