Queensland Opposition Leader David Crisafulli says the federal budget reflects a choice by the Albanese government to prioritise its political survival over infrastructure planning.
Queensland Opposition Leader David Crisafulli says the federal budget is a choice by the Albanese government to prioritise its political survival over infrastructure planning in one of the country’s fastest-growing states.
Even Labor Premier Steven Miles acknowledged the lack of new money from his federal party mates for road and rail projects, with others scaled back or facing unanswered questions “I’m not going to ... just sit down and roll over in the way that the state government has done”: LNP leader David Crisafulli.“This was a budget that prioritised contributing to the costs of households. So, you shouldn’t be surprised that there wasn’t lots of new money for lots of new projects,”
At a Sunshine Coast media conference of his own, Crisafulli said: “the federal government’s chosen short-term political survival in southern states over long-term infrastructure planning”.have driven an expected drop of almost $1 billion in GST funding as the Commonwealth also straddles cost-of-living pressures, inflation and construction pipeline crunches.
“And today, the premier and the government are cheering,” the LNP leader said. “I’m sorry, I’m not going to cop that and just sit down and roll over in the way that the state government has done.”was a missed opportunity that locked the city into “a cycle of worsening congestion” by covering only cost escalations on existing road and rail projects in the broader south-east region.
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