Gold Coast Election 2020: Everything Labor promised to deliver on Gold Coast after Palaszczuk win

Annastacia Palaszczuk has secured an election win - now here’s everything she promised the Gold Coast, from new hospitals to school upgrades to mountain bike trails. SEE THE FULL LIST

LABOR has more than three dozen election campaign promises to deliver on for the Gold Coast after their historic win on Saturday night.

The Bulletin has compiled every commitment the party made on the Gold Coast from the beginning of the campaign period.

Projects include stage one of the second M1 between Coomera and Nerang, $160 million for new and expanded hospitals across the city, and funding for multiple school upgrades.

See the full list below.

Labor Gaven MP Meaghan Scanlon with Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk. Picture: NIGEL HALLETT

LABOR’S ELECTION CAMPAIGN PROMISES

• COVID-19 Fiscal and Economic Review in September
• $1.3b in payroll tax relief
• $1b in loans, $196m in small business grants
• $400m in land tax relief
• $52.8b in infrastructure over four years, supporting 41,500 jobs
• Back to Work program supporting young people as apprentices and trainees with $20k payments as part of a $90m skills package
• Matching Federal Government funding to support Queenslanders with training places
• $267m package to support housing construction
• $15k first homeowner grant for new builds
• $5k regional boost for new houses in the regions
• $100m in new housing projects

Coomera Connector artist impression.

• $10m to support seniors fixing their homes
• Copperstring 2.0 to open up half trillion dollar minerals province in the North West
• $37.5m for new training centres of excellence in hydrogen technology and renewable energy
• $15m fund supporting renewable hydrogen for new Queensland hydrogen industry
• 450 new manufacturing jobs by securing Rheinmetall, Military Vehicle Centre of Excellence to manufacture new combat reconnaissance vehicles
• Driving new manufacturing jobs and reshoring by having lowest energy prices and most affordable supply of gas on east coast
• $200,000 for a co-designed project which will formalise several mountain bike trails in the Nerang National Park.
• A $300m QPS Capital Works program for new police facilities, including one in Pimpama and in Beenleigh
• More than 2000 extra police officers across the state and a $77m roll-out of new police equipment
• $10m funding boost to support Queensland veterans
• $7.5m investment in $150 FairPlay vouchers, covering sign on costs for 50,000 kids across Queensland
• New 148ha eco-parkland for southern Gold Coast
• $3.3m bikeway at Labrador
• $40m investment in manufacturing skills training on the Gold Coast

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk joined by Emergency Services Minister Mark Ryan to announce funding towards Surf Life Saving Queensland’s Beach Safe Schools Program at Currumbin Vikings SLSC. Picture Glenn Hampson

• $2m to upgrade the Currumbin Vikings Surf Life Saving clubhouse
• $880m projects investment, including $280m for a Transport Infrastructure Development Scheme, to support up to 17,800 jobs across Queensland
• $5b plan to slash travel times, including a $1.5b plan for stage one of the Second M1 between Coomera and Nerang
• $160m Gold Coast health plan for new and expanded hospitals, including a new hospital and health precinct for the northern Gold Coast
• $100m invested in every Queensland primary and secondary state school to ensure access to psychologists and other similar health professionals
• A further $74m to rebuild the Gold Coast tourism industry
• $450k for Labrador State School and Arundel State School refurbishments
• Protection of Gold Coast beaches via the World Surfing Reserve
• Electric buses for the Gold Coast and Logan
• $30m to slash hospital power bills via energy efficiency projects
• A new $40m satellite hospital for the Gold Coast
• Hiring a total 682 nurses, 163 doctors and 163 health professionals on the Gold Coast
• $78m for new classrooms, multi-purpose halls and facility upgrades for Gold Coast schools