Qld govt says job losses nothing new More than 100 road maintenance workers in Queensland are being made redundant. MORE than 100 road maintenance workers in Queensland are being made redundant, but the government says it's nothing new. The public service union Together says the government is trying to hide the job cuts happening in Brisbane and the Sunshine and Gold coasts. "They are going to do everything they can to avoid talking about them, but everything they can to cut jobs and services throughout Queensland," Secretary Alex Scott says. These aren't the first jobs to go this year, and they won't be the last. It also emerged this week that 30 environment policy advisors, in the areas of water management and koala protection, were made redundant. Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk says Premier Campbell Newman promised in December that there would be no more cuts on top of the 14,000 job losses announced last year. "What sort of Christmas are these people going to have?" she said. This is not acceptable, it is clearly a broken promise. A spokesman for Transport Minister Scott Emerson says the job losses in RoadTek are nothing new. "These are within the changes to RoadTek announced last year, competitive tendering in southeast Queensland and a staff reduction from 1800 to 1200," he said. A spokeswoman for Environment Minister Andrew Powell says the job losses from his department also aren't fresh and were outlined in the budget papers.