How the Bligh government makes up statistics - example no. 364 ...

Excerpt from ABC News:

4 August 2008

Emergency Services Minister Neil Roberts says the number of Queensland house fires dropped dramatically this winter.
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"Currently in Queensland we have around about 97 per cent of households with smoke alarms but only about 89 per cent of those are operational, which means they've got flat batteries or they're simply not working," he said.

See - State government makes up numbers.

Without doing a house to house audit of whether smoke alarms are operational, the Minister is just pulling the numbers out of his ...