Five-minute guide: What’s in the 2025 Qld budget for you

David Janetzki’s first budget has tackled some of the LNP’s biggest election promises in health delivery, crime prevention, cost-of-living relief and housing affordability.

Five-minute guide to the Queensland budget handed down by Treasurer David Janetzki

Treasurer David Janetzki’s first budget promises to tackle the four “big crises” of health delivery, crime prevention, cost-of-living relief, and housing affordability the LNP took to the election. But he also has to confront reduced revenue from declining royalties and GST.

The budget deficit this financial year is an eye watering $8.6bn, which is the worst on record, topping even Covid-19.

Mr Janetzki is blaming a one-off GST whack caused by Queensland’s coal royalties in recent years. But the state is expected to take in just $6.1bn in 2025-26 until it levels out to $5.26bn in following years.

Health

■ $18.5bn will be spent over the five years on the Hospital Rescue Plan, including the Queensland Cancer Centre and new CT scanners and MRI machines in satellite health centres and regional hospitals, and new hospitals to be built at Toowoomba, Coomera and Bundaberg, and expansions for 10 existing hospitals, to deliver more than 2600 beds.

Aerials of the Mater Springfield Hospital Project stage two.

■ More than $6.5bn will be allocated over the next four years to stabilise bed and system capacity across Queensland, add 30,000 elective surgeries in 2025-26 through the Surgery Connect program, and provide funding to open stage 2 of the Mater Springfield project.

■ 4700 additional health workers including doctors, nurses and paramedics in 2025-26, with an aim to grow the workforce by 46,000 health professionals by 2032.

■ The abolishment of patients’ tax which lowers the cost to see a doctor.

Cost of living

■ Increase in Electricity Maintenance Guarantee to $1.6bn, building on $450m already committed to in the previous year to maintain generation assets and putting downward pressure on power bills

■ $37.5m for free health checks for kindergarteners

■ Confirmation of permanent 50 cent fares

■ Extended boosted First Home Owner Grant to $30,000 for 12 months, incentivising youth people to break into the market to buy a new house, encouraging supply through new build construction

■ $26.3m for Supercharged Solar for Renters program that will reduce power bills for renters

Olympics

■ $3.8bn allowed for the total venues program over the forward estimates, including the Victoria Park Stadium out of the total $7.1bn amount.

■ $950m over four years for the delivery of athlete villages alongside the private sector including the Brisbane Athlete Village and RNA showground upgrade

Renders of the Moreton Bay Indoor Sports Centre.

■ $847m to fund decisions to continue with Sunshine Coast Stadium, Sunshine Coast Mountain Bike Centre, Moreton Bay Indoor Sports Centre, Barlow Park Stadium and Logan Indoor Sports Centre projects.

■ $250m allocated for Games On! Program to upgrade more than 100 community club facilities in the lead-up to the 2032 Games to support next generation of athletes.

■ Increased funding of $308.5m over four years for the Games independent Infrastructure and Coordination Authority to progress with a delivery partner

Making Queensland Safer

■ $2.4bn to deliver new facilities to expand additional prisoner capacity across Townsville and Brisbane

■ $347.7m to deliver Making Queensland Safer Laws.

■ $147.9m in the budget for new tasers, vests, body-worn cameras and safety equipment

■ $290.3m to build new and upgraded policed stations, facilities and beats at Burleigh, Nambour, Logan Central, Mount Gravatt, Boondall, Ferny Grove, Redcliffe, Edmonton, Palm Island and Goodna. Funds being set aside to buy land for proposed police stations at Yarrabilba, Rainbow Beach and Caboolture West.

■ Additional $275m in financial assistance to provide payments to victims of crime, bolstered $11.6m Victim Liaison Service to navigate court process, and permanent $10m each year for a new Victims Advocate Service

Home ownership and social housing

■ $165m Boost to Buy program from July 1 will allow the government to take an equity stake in new and existing dwellings to help 1000 people break into the housing market with a smaller mortgage an a lower deposit as low as two per cent. It will invest up to 30 per cent equity for new builds and 25 per cent of existing homes up to a home value of $1m.

■ $1bn of the $2bn Residential Activation Fund will be allocated by June 30 2026, which is aimed to fund local councils and developers to build critical infrastructure to prepare land for development. Half the funding has been committed to the regions.

■ Abolition of stamp duty for first home buyers purchasing a new home and extending $30,000 First Home Owner Grant for 12 months.

■ 2000 new social and community homes each year by 2028 with a targeted aim of 53,500 new social homes by 2044

■ $366m boost to crisis and temporary accommodation, with 20 per cent uplift for specialist homelessness service providers across four years.

Transport and Roads

■ $9bn Bruce Highway Targeted Safety Program with 80:20 funding pool with the federal government, with 16 projects in planning.

Stage one of the Sunshine Motorway, Mooloolah River Interchange upgrade.

■ $41.7bn Queensland Transport and Roads Investment Program includes funding for Barron River Bridge, Caloundra Congestion Busting Plan, Logan and Gold Coast Faster Rail and Mooloolah River Interchange

$40m to accelerate planning for stages 2 and 3 for The Wave public transport to the Sunshine Coast Airport.

■ $100m Country Roads Connect program to boost flood resilience of regional roads.

Education

■ $100 Back to School Boost starting from January 1 for every primary school student in Queensland. Will provide support for costs of excursions, schoolbooks, uniforms, regardless of where these children go to school.

■ $814.8m across four years for new primary schools in Caloundra South and Ripley Valley, and six new special schools and campuses in Berrinba, Coomera, Springfield/Redbank, Beenleigh, Ipswich West and Moreton Bay South.

■ More than $9.4bn committed to the state’s public school system through a deal with the Commonwealth to improve learning outcomes, over the next 10 years.

■ Additional $222m to tackle bullying, slash red tape and provide 550 more teacher aides and support teachers through the More Teachers Better Education Plan.

Energy

■ Previously announced $2.4bn investment in the CopperString transmission line in North Queensland

■ $479.2m in 2025-26 to develop the 400-megawatt Brigalow Gas Peaker Project at Kogan Creek

■ $79m to progress ongoing development of CleanCo’s Mt Rawdon and Stanwell’s Big T pumped hydro projects, and CS Energy continues investigative works on the Capricornia project.

■ $355m allocated towards early works on the Borumba pumped hydro project of indexation to the Electricity Rebate Scheme, with a 3.8 per cent increase aimed to reduce the average power bill for vulnerable households by $386 in 2025-26. This was frozen by the previous government in 2022.

Originally published as Five-minute guide: What’s in the 2025 Qld budget for you