A Queensland Labor MP has refused to apologise for comparing fly-in, fly-out mines to the Holocaust. Source: AAP
QUEENSLAND'S Labor leader has cried in parliament while speaking about her grandfather's seven years in a Polish work camp during World War II.
Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk is under fire after Labor frontbencher Jo-Ann Miller compared fly-in, fly-out accommodation with "mining concentration camps".
Ms Palaszczuk, who is of Polish decent, became emotional as she spoke out against a government motion condemning Ms Miller's comments made in Tuesday night speech to parliament.
She broke down after recalling how a state government ministerial staff member had described the Nazis as "very admirable people", when he edited a National Party newsletter during the 1990s.
"These were the people that almost killed my grandfather, who also made my grandmother ... ," she sobbed.
"I can't believe that people on this side of the house ... about Nazis being admirable people."
The opposition leader said her grandfather's seven years in a labour camp were "very, very tough days" which almost killed him.
Ms Miller is standing by her comments, despite their allusion to the Nazi Holocaust which killed six million people across Europe.
But Ms Palaszczuk apologised for her colleague's comments.
"Her comments made in the House may have been regrettable but she was merely conveying ... the thoughts and views of people on the ground," she said.
"I have no problem with apologising for anyone who has taken offence."
Earlier, Queensland Premier Campbell Newman unfavourably compared Ms Palaszczuk with her father Henry, a Beattie government minister.
In January 2005, Mr Palaszczuk asked the Speaker to withdraw his ministerial oath of allegiance to the Queen after Prince Harry wore a Nazi uniform costume.
"Her father took a stand on a matter of principle, he showed ticker, he saw somebody do something inappropriate ... that mocked the historic outrage of the Holocaust," Mr Newman said.
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