LNP vows to hit the ground running with 100-day road map

The LNP has promised to waste no time if it wins power on October 26, with plans to push through key campaign pledges before the end of 2024, while immediately snuffing out a number of Labor policies.

Speaking at the Gold Coast Sports and Leisure Centre in Carrara on Sunday, Opposition Leader David Crisafulli said the “road map” would ensure change for Queenslanders, adding to his party’s rhetoric of hope.

“We do have a vision to make life better for [people] across those big four crises – crime, health, housing and cost of living – and for all of them, we have put forward immediate, as well as long-term, changes,” he said.

Opposition Leader David Crisafulli announces his party’s plan for the first 100 days of government if elected.Credit: Catherine Strohfeldt

The LNP had previously been tight-lipped about its immediate timelines, beyond a promise to launch a 100-day review into the Brisbane Olympics’ stadium.

But on Sunday, Crisafulli said that within the first week of an LNP government, the party would nix a number of Labor policies, including any GP payroll tax, and the Miles government’s $24 billion Pioneer-Burdekin Pumped Hydro “pipe dream”.

It would also begin work on its youth crime laws, with plans to pass legislation under which young offenders would be charged as adults for certain crimes before year’s end.

Crisafulli said if elected, he would hold his ministers to a higher standard than the current government – a claim that has underpinned his campaign to date.

And under the 100-day plan released on Sunday, details of the party’s 40 initiatives would be issued to the relevant ministers and directors-general through charter letters from Crisafulli, with their performances to be measured with KPIs.

When asked again if he would sack ministers who failed to reach minimum performance requirements or deliver on promises in the plan, the LNP leader said, “that’s the way Westminster works”.

“It’s about ministers being upfront with Queensland.”

Crisafulli also criticised Labor’s $1.4 billion commitment – made on Sunday at the party’s official campaign launch – to give primary-aged schoolchildren free lunches.

He promised to end Labor’s “culture of blowouts that run to the many billions of dollars”.

“[We] have a fully costed and fully funded plan, and everything we’ve announced has been to the dollar,” he said.

The LNP also elaborated on its housing policies.

Alongside promises to remove stamp duty for those building, rather than buying, their first home, the party plans to use charity and faith-based organisations’ land to build social housing.

“It means a simple change in regulation to allow the faith-based sector to be able to do what is in their DNA, and that is help people,” Crisafulli said.

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