Queensland state budget 2025: five key takeaways | Queensland

Here are five basic inferences from the Queensland budget.

Wage battle stalls

Very few will follow the budget of the state as closely to Queensland’s public sector unions.

The Union of Nurses was locked in negotiations with the government with only 8% higher wage proposals for three years. Nurses say the proposal is a violation of a promise of election for the country’s highest wages.

Corporate bargaining will soon begin for police, firefighters and school teachers.

The budget foresees a significant decrease in growth in “employee expenses üzere containing both wages and the number of personnel. Beyond next year, “more sustainable average will take place at a rate of 3.5%annually”.

Treasurer David Janetzki said an increase in the number of personnel and reflects the “wage increases ..

“And this number. This is the number,” he said.

Is the coal explosion over?

The liberal national party government was asked to review the coal royalties that try to give a greater share of the state than super profit when prices are at record levels.

These copyright hikes decreased to the state in the first year of 10 billion dollars. However, the schema is designed to be activated only when the prices are only extraordinary high rates. Now these prices have fallen. The truth is that coal administrators who say that they support the state economy no longer support the state economy.

“The old government certainly creams coal copyrights,” Janetzki said.

“At 22/23 and 23/24 [the Labor government] In these two years, coal received more than four of the royalties. “

Red ink

There is always A post that returns to bite you.

Two years ago, Janetzki and David Crisaful were afraid of the increasing debt of the state.

“When the Palaszczuk government is elected, we have debt numbers that have passed from $ 72 billion when the Palaszczuk government is elected, and Janetzki Crisafulli is in a mission about Tiktok Feed in less than 147 billion dollars in less than a decade.

“This means that there will be worse services in the long run for Queenslanders.”

The budget estimates that Queensland’s state debt will overcome $ 205 billion before the end of the decade.

Janetzki says the borrowing figure will be lower than expected under labor. This line will soon cut with the financial conservatives that indicate that this debt is not likely to arrange.

The budget also foresees deficits for the predictable future, but Janetzki says it’s a “more way”.

The first home equality plan with ‘generous’ criteria

The central announcement of the Budget Day was a new common Özkaynak plan for the first home buyers.

The program includes the state to receive stocks up to $ 1 million and allow buyers to enter the market with a deposit of 2%.

Criteria are much more generous than similar federal plan – it will be open to individuals who earn less than $ 150,000 per year or to couples who earn less than 225,000 dollars per year.

At a budget press conference, Janetzki encountered some difficult questions about the viability and unwanted consequences of such a plan because of concerns that he could lead buyers to mortgage stress.

“This program has the highest income thresholds for any relevant plan in the country, Janet Janetzki said.

“We have a generation of despair as you disappear from the dream of dreams.

Is the energy system cut on the road?

Investing in Yeşil Power was one of the first moves after LNP’s government, and the budget varies very little in the coming years.

The gigantic Pioneer-Burdin scheme of the world, once the world’s largest hydroelectric project, officially died.

Meanwhile, Labour’s other major battery project Borumba was delayed and smaller. The budget includes $ 3 billion for four years for the $ 18 billion project.

The LNP finally supported the two small pumped hydro projects, revealing Labor’s long -awaited alternative to the hydro power plan.

Rawdon will invest $ 79 million to buy Hydro projects with Big T pumping. The state will also finance a gas project near Chinchilla, investigate one more finance in Swanbank, and consider providing funds for the Lockyer Energy Project, a hydro schema.

And it will spend $ 1.6 billion, which will enable the state’s coal fleet to operate for five years.

At 2025/26, MEANDU and KOGAN Creek mines will be invested more than $ 100 million.