What you said about Labor’s 2024 Qld budget

The state budget may have been sold as future-proofing Queensland but many continue to look to the past to judge Labor. HAVE YOUR SAY

The state budget may have been sold as future-proofing Queensland but many continue to look to the past to judge Labor.

Treasurer Cameron Dick revealed on Tuesday his government’s budget, one which includes taxing Queenslanders to help plug the state’s revenue hole as the golden era of coal royalties comes to an end.

Mr Dick’s controversial royalties increase has helped rake in a whopping $25bn from coal in the last two years, but his latest State Budget revealed this will shrink to a trickle of $5bn a year out to mid-2028.

But the coffers remain healthy amid a spike in taxes and other revenue gleaned from Queenslanders through property, payroll, and misbehaviour on the roads.

There is also an impending crackdown on tax compliance and overdue fines worth nearly $1bn.

Queensland will rake in $88.1bn in revenue in the upcoming financial year budget papers show, marking a $4.36bn drop in resource royalties and near $1bn decline in GST cash compared to 2023/24.

However amid the fanfare, readers were quick to savage the budget.

Premier Steven Miles’ Labor government has previously been accused of reigning too long over the state, a sentiment backed by many online readers.

Sounds like a gaslighting spouse. ‘Forget the past, I’ve changed. You can trust me. I only did these things to you because I love you’,” Christopher wrote.

Cheryl agreed: “In his budget speech Dick has asked us to forget about the last 9 years and just be happy they are giving us all these sweeteners leading up to the next election.”

In an online poll (cast your vote below) of more than 1400 readers, majority voted that they had little confidence the budget would help them.

A further 84 per cent of more than 3500 readers voted that the budget is not “good for Queensland”.

See what you had to say below and join the conversation >>>

WHAT YOU SAID

It’s gaslighting!

Christopher

Sounds like a gaslighting spouse. “Forget the past, I’ve changed. You can trust me. I only did these things to you because I love you.”

patricia

Great G’kids will be paying off weird budget thanks to nine years of extravagance now asking us to forget that previous time

Concerned

this clown of a treasurer asks us to forget the past failures. the past failures he created as treasurer. he has been treasurer since 2020. to ask people to forget the past failures is so hypocritical.

Glenda

The Palaszczuk/Miles/Dick government has spent the last 9 years destroying QLD and not wants us to forger that for a few months of their temporary handouts.

Queensland Premier Steven Miles (right) and Treasurer and Minister for Trade and Investment Cameron Dick during a press conference before handing down the 2024-25 State Budget, at Parliament House. Photo: Dan Peled

They’re treating us as fools

Aussie_Aussie_Aussie_Oi_Oi_Oi

Relying on traumatic amnesia is not a reliable vote winner.

Cheryl

In his budget speech Dick has asked us to forget about the last 9 years and just be happy they are giving us all these sweeteners leading up to the next election

Wayne

This guy lives in fairy land. They have got all this so called golden river money and have done nothing to address the issues that Queenslanders are and have been facing. It just goes to show how out of touch and useless this government is

John

The way these incompetents have run this State over the last nine years and have asked voters to disregard their performance, then try to bribe the electorate to buy votes borders on criminality.

Time to go, Labor

Ian

How to save money in infrastructure is to throw out the CFMEU\Labor Best Practice Tax for a start. Will the LNP do this and have big strikes and take the union on???????????

Kevin

Labor giving out borrowed money for cost of living caused by their inept management. It’s like hitting someone and then giving them a panadol. The arrogance of Dick and Miles beggars belief.

Roderick Usher

The huge revenue raised by the QLD government could at least be excused if it was put into long term infrastructure. Instead it is wasted on massive bureaucracy and pork barrelling.

Jim Carner

Come October there will nothing to worry about, the land of milk and honey, no youth crime, cheapest fuel and energy prices, Renewables banned, Olympics dumped, Ev’s, Solar and Wind farms banned, no Gay kids in Private Christian Colleges, no Treaty, no K’gar’ and other Indigenous renaming lunacy, no DV or Road Rage.....and the Brisbane Broncs win the Grand Final.....who could ask for anything more?

Gregory

Cameron Dick’s appalling lack of judgement has done untold damage to investment in Queensland, and we will all pay the price. He completely lacks an understanding of the importance of maintaining a positive investment environment for mining, housing and other key pillars of the State economy.

ARus

this government is useful just like the CFMEU …

Queensland taxpayers will foot the bill for the coal royalty revenue hole.

There’s a long-term plan

Steve

Setting it up perfectly for the LNP to rack up the highest state debt ever, onwards from December 2024 until Labor get back into power in 2028 inheriting a huge debt and a failed Olympics!!

Beth

Let’s hope Labor are not around long enough to mismanage the next windfall of $85b from taxpayers and coal royalties.

Harry

If these idiots get another term, this “giveaway will turn into a massive tax grab to balance things out.