A week out from Treasurer David Janetzki’s first budget update, the spotlight is on youth crime, health and housing – and what Labor left behind.
Premier David Crisafulli has vowed to honour the LNP’s election promises, and keep a tight rein on the state’s finances, amid ongoing claims of budget blowouts and black holes left by the former Labor government., seemingly to avoid claims of looming LNP cuts, the Crisafulli government will release its first budget update next Thursday.
“We haven’t had our first budget yet, so you’ll see in the first budget how serious we take that for the next financial year,” he said.Earlier this week, Janetzki said the budget update would reveal “the true state of the books in Queensland”. Treasurer David Janetzki announced the mid-year fiscal and economic review would be released on January 23.Janetzki said the Treasury and Child Safety Departments had uncovered $461 million shortfall in residential care funding.
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