More than $630,000 in state government funding has been set aside to renovate a property part-owned by a south-east Queensland councillor.

Meanwhile, a Liberal-National MP supported by the councillor in the 2024 state election spruiked the project on social media as training local jobseekers, without disclosing the property’s owner.

Redlands councillor Shane Rendalls is the part-owner of an expansive property on Russell Island, east of Brisbane, where 24 workers from the state government’s Skilling Queenslanders for Work scheme have been approved to renovate seven cabins and a three-bedroom house.

Rendalls and his wife, Elizabeth, bought the property through their super fund, and share ownership with local builder and president of the Southern Moreton Bay Islands Chamber of Commerce, Da

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