Queensland public servants forbidden from including acknowledgments of country in email signatures, Labor says

Government denies it issued directive, but opposition MP Leeanne Enoch says whistleblower has shared document outlining the decision

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Queensland’s Labor opposition claims the state’s public servants have been issued a “strict directive” not to include acknowledgments of country in email signatures.

The shadow minister for reconciliation, Leeanne Enoch, tabled a partly redacted document in question time on Thursday which reads: “Departments are no longer permitted to add additional departmental branding elements such as the First Nations acknowledgement.”

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