What you said about showdown between Steven Miles and David Crisafulli

Housing, grocery prices and cost of living – David Crisafulli and Steven Miles have been grilled on Queensland’s biggest issues. HAVE YOUR SAY

Housing, grocery prices and cost of living – David Crisafulli and Steven Miles have been grilled on Queensland’s biggest issues.

Days out from two by-elections and with a critical state budget just months away, the first cost-of-living showdown between the state’s political leaders could not come at a more crucial time.

Premier Miles and Opposition Leader Crisafulli went go toe-to-toe in The Courier-Mail’s studio over who’s got the best plan to get Queenslanders off the streets and keep food on their tables.

Like Saturday’s Ipswich West and Inala by-elections, this showdown offered the first insight on who’s carrying momentum into the October 26 general election.

Jump to: What you said about the debate

Premier Steven Miles. Picture: Liam Kidston

Opposition Leader David Crisafulli. Picture: Liam Kidston

■ WATCH A REPLAY OF THE SHOWDOWN HERE

Mr Miles and Mr Crisafulli fielded questions from The Courier-Mail’s state political editor Hayden Johnson as well as readers, with most questions focusing on solving the cost of living crisis.

Readers were scathing on the performance of Mr Miles, with many saying his party's nine-year stay in government hasn’t delivered enough answers.

Other praised Mr Crisafulli for his fresh approach, though some were still left undecided.

See below how the leaders answered each questions, and what you said >>>

What Miles and Crisafulli said about cost of living:

Miles: “My first budget will do more than a government ever has in a budget. It will put more funds back into the pockets of families and back into household budgets.”

Crisafulli: ”Cost of living is a priority for me. As opposition leader I will hold the government to account.

“I want to provide some certainty. Right now Queenslanders need that more than ever.”

What Miles and Crisafulli said about housing:

Miles: “We don’t just want people to have a roof over their head. We want them to be able to pay rent.”

Crisafulli: “Social housing has not kept pace. What I want to focus on is that we build new stock. Focus has to change.

“I look at the community housing sector and I see a group of people who have been shackled.”

What Miles and Crisafulli said about their own grocery bills:

Miles: “We have three kids and living in the suburbs … even though it’s not a struggle like it is for others I’ve seen first hand of those prices going up. My son Aidan can eat a big box of Nutri-Grain in one day and they’re $11 now.”

Crisafulli: “We have nothing to complain about. I walked out with $256 worth of groceries and I carried it out and I’m not strong. The cost is out of control. The other barometer is when I pull up to fill up the car … I saw people filling up for $5 – that’s a sign that people are filling up a couple of litres just to get through.”

What Miles and Crisafulli said about rents:

Miles: “We looked at the implications of capping rent increases and it could have the reverse impact. We have also banned rent bidding and we’re going to bring in a code of conduct for rent managers.”

Crisafulli: “I share the same passion as the Premier in increasing supply, the difference is I haven’t had the opportunity across the past nine years to do that.”

Premier Steven Miles went head to head with David Crisafulli.

WHAT YOU SAID

Sort out our issues

Mark

Fund meals on wheels not a new Olympics stadium. We told the Olympic committee we would use existing facilities.

Chris

The current Qld battery subsidy program is welcome, but it is a token effort at only 10000 funded, it needs to be 100s of 10000s if it is going to make a difference to the saturation of solar.

John Mac Censored

green energy and government spending causing inflation. why can’t we accept the root cause?

#outrageforoutragesake

ALP aspiration = earn more and keep more of what you earn. YES! Nor sit back and rake in millions from your investment properties and business under the counter deals.

Opposition Leader David Crisafulli.

I vote Crisafulli

Lavinia

Mr Crisfulli works very hard to be where he is, while everyone’s having the weekend off he’s still working his whole team he works with all do a great job. this time round he is fully focused works round clock and makes sure he and his team have their issued based on facts. he is hardworking working all year round.

Lynette

Seriously – Labor has been in power all but 3 of the last 27 years and Miles keeps saying power prices are low because assets remain in government ownership. My last quarterly power bill (two of us) was $3600

Lynette

Could the Premier please tell us how many inquiries they’ve had since 2012? Every time there is an issue they have an inquiry but how many times do they action results to fix something. An inquiry is not a fix

Peter

Leader of the opposition was articulate and fully in command of the subject matter relating to questions asked. The Premier seemed to be mumbling his way through and lacking confidence, not his best performance.

Paul

Of the 2 one was confident,spoke clearly and looks and sounds like a leader. The other was Miles.

I vote Miles

Vandemonian

Wonder if Crisafulli is going to release some practical solutions – or just point out problems (that anyone can do)

Ben

crisafulli is appointing a minister for cost of living if elected. Another ministry allowance that does nothing to benefit constituents.

Rebecca

Mr Crisafulli, if you think more cash handouts is the way to handle a cost of living crisis due to inflation, well, I need to find someone else to vote for. This is bad policy and nothing the LNP should be associated with.

Still not sure

Desmond

Let’s hope Chrisafulli can stand up and debate, he seems too quiet to lead conservatives, and time is running out.

Ketut

Finally Its time for both sides to show some election policies, that are going to make a difference for us battlers ! not just the BS and spin of LNP blue folders and selfies or the usual ALP lies for 9 years.

Geoff2

David Crisafulli seems to be a nice fellow & a pretty good bloke, but Premier material he ain’t.

Sounding Bored

I don’t think the LNP in power will be very good either. It’ll take years to repair the damage left by Labor.

Reece

Scary to think these two are the best we could come up with despite the fact that we are a state filled with so many wonderful and talented people …

Originally published as What you said about showdown between Steven Miles and David Crisafulli