A $630,000 training program funded by the state government has been cancelled, with the money no longer to be spent renovating a property owned by a south-east Queensland councillor.

This masthead reported on Saturday that a state government program would fund construction training for 24 workers to renovate seven cabins and a three-bedroom house on land partially owned by Redlands councillor Shane Rendalls.

The nearly 11,000-square-metre property is on Russell Island, east of Brisbane, where Rendalls is the elected representative.

Redlands councillor Shane Rendalls.

The state’s Skilling Queenslanders for Work program was to have given training company Skill360, run by the not-for-profit BUSY at Work, $636,7000 for the project.

Rendalls and wife Elizabeth own half the property throu

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