Shadow Portfolio — 22 May 2026

Opposition Whip Aaron Violi used a media release to attack the government's handling of the PsiQuantum quantum computing project, centring his critique on two compounding problems: a flawed procurement process and now a site relocation that he says has been made without public explanation [TA-260521-libera-01d1595e0118]. Violi disclosed that PsiQuantum has abandoned its original Brisbane Airport site and will instead build at Moreton Bay Central — a material change to a project backed by $1 billion in taxpayer funding, including a $470 million government allocation.

He described the deal as "cloaked in secrecy from the start" and cited the Productivity Commission's finding that the allocation was made without a proper procurement process and would not have cleared the government's own national interest framework. The relocation adds a new line of attack: Violi argued that the only active works connected to PsiQuantum are occurring in Chicago, not Queensland, and that taxpayers have received no account of why the project has shifted locations.

The opposition's strategic frame treats the site change not as a project management update but as further evidence of a pattern — secretive deal-making, bypassed due diligence, and public money committed to a project whose domestic milestones remain undelivered. No alternative policy position was advanced in the release; the attack is forensic rather than propositional, aimed at accountability for an existing government commitment.