As it happened: Brisbane on Tuesday, June 24

Interest group representatives lined up outside parliament to praise the new Queensland budget this afternoon – but one was not impressed.

Resources royalties, which were hiked by Labor in 2022, will remain at their increased level under the LNP, the 2025-26 plans revealed by Treasurer David Janetzki show.

Janette Hewson, CEO of the Queensland Resources Council.Credit: William Davis

“We’re very concerned about it,” Janette Hewson, chief executive of the Queensland Resources Council, which represents the interests of mining companies in the state, told reporters.

“Today was an opportunity for the government to change a bad policy. What we’ve seen is that they’ve added another year to the forward estimates, baking in that bad policy.

“We want to see royalties continue to drive Queensland, and the only way we can do that is to make sure that investment is welcome in this state.

“It’s an unfair royalty that doesn’t deliver for Queenslanders.”

Thanks for joining us for live coverage of the Queensland state budget and other news happening in Brisbane and beyond this Tuesday. We’ll be back tomorrow morning with another live coverage of the latest news.

The LNP wants you to know its first Queensland budget since 2014 will give the state a “fresh start”. Treasurer David Janetzki used the phrase seven times as he announced debt would be crunched and public servant numbers capped.

But the public service will still grow by 2.24 per cent, Janetzki revealed, confirming that consultancy services would be brought in-house.

And if you don’t have time to read anything else about the budget, here’s a three-minute guide.

Meanwhile, former Liberal Party staffer Bruce Lehrmann’s lawyer has filed an application for his rape case to be thrown out of court in Toowoomba, with claims that his lawyers’ phone calls were obtained illegally.

The trial of Erin Patterson, accused of murdering three people with a poisonous mushroom meal, is in its final stage as Justice Christopher Beale is directing the jury. Follow all the latest here.

Overseas, US president Donald Trump announced a ceasefire agreement had been reached after Iran attacked the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar in retaliation for strikes on three nuclear facilities. Follow our live coverage.

And on any given day, they can be perched on top of the Brisbane Airport car park – cameras pointing at the movements on the tarmac below and streaming it to a worldwide audience.

Dave Copeman – director of the Queensland Conservation Council – was among those sharing his thoughts on the budget with media at the Parliament House entrance.

He expressed concern about the long-term plan to invest the royalties from mining in the renewable energy transition.

“We are glad to see that coal royalties are continuing, but we are concerned about where the investment is going,” he said.

“The previous government had a plan to invest a lot of those new royalties into the energy and jobs plan.

“What we’ve seen in this budget is some good investments … but we still don’t have a plan.”

Also speaking to media after the budget were representatives for the Queensland Major Contractors Association, P&Cs Queensland, the Queensland Renewable Energy Council, Queensland Tourism Industry Council and World Wildlife Fund Australia. (We also spotted actor David Wenham.)

Interest group representatives lined up outside parliament to praise the new Queensland budget this afternoon – but one was not impressed.

Resources royalties, which were hiked by Labor in 2022, will remain at their increased level under the LNP, the 2025-26 plans revealed by Treasurer David Janetzki show.

Janette Hewson, CEO of the Queensland Resources Council.Credit: William Davis

“We’re very concerned about it,” Janette Hewson, chief executive of the Queensland Resources Council, which represents the interests of mining companies in the state, told reporters.

“Today was an opportunity for the government to change a bad policy. What we’ve seen is that they’ve added another year to the forward estimates, baking in that bad policy.

“We want to see royalties continue to drive Queensland, and the only way we can do that is to make sure that investment is welcome in this state.

“It’s an unfair royalty that doesn’t deliver for Queenslanders.”

We’ve scoured the LNP’s first Queensland budget since 2014 to find the biggest winners and losers, so you don’t have to read more than 600 pages of detailed financial information.

Who are the main winners and losers in the Queensland budget?Credit: Michael Howard

A $100 “Back to School” payment for every primary-school student in Queensland is the signature cost-of-living measure, while the big four consulting firms Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG, and PwC will lose out from a pledge to bring their services in-house.

Here’s our quick guide to where the money is going.

The LNP wants you to know its first Queensland budget since 2014 will give the state a “fresh start”. Treasurer David Janetzki used the phrase seven times as he announced debt would be crunched and public servant numbers capped.

But while Janetzki has outlined a “pathway to surplus”, the budget would remain in deficit for each of the next four years.

Queensland Treasurer David Janetzki in the budget lock-up.Credit: Jamila Filippone

“When the people of Queensland changed the government last October, they voted for a fresh start,” Janetzki said, delivering his first budget on Tuesday.

“This budget lays the foundation for a fresh start.”

Read more.

Wondering what state budget day looks like south of the Tweed?

All the details from the papers were released at 12 noon, and NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey has just wrapped up his budget speech in the Legislative Assembly.

NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey delivers the 2025/26 NSW State Budget.Credit: AAP IMAGE

Under NSW Labor’s flagship housing policy, the Minns government will be the guarantor of up to $1 billion worth of new housing projects.

Mookhey says this will bring forward the construction of up to 15,000 extra homes on the market over the next five years.

Follow live coverage of all the reaction to the NSW budget here.

Labor’s former industrial relations minister Grace Grace has responded to calls to condemn CFMEU protesters, saying “there is no place” for abusive behaviour in the union movement.

In an interview on 4BC yesterday, Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie said he had not seen Grace condemn the CFMEU once in 10 years, and urged the former minister to publicly call out the behaviour at rallies last week, including insults yelled at female journalists.

Grace appeared on the same program this morning and told host Peter Fegan such actions “are not acceptable under any circumstances”.

“I condemn any actions that are not respectful, that are not lawful, and that are not peaceful, and there is no place to attack journalists or anybody in today’s modern union movement,” she said.

Grace said Bleijie’s claims were “nonsense”.

“It was this the previous Labor government that put the CFMEU into administration, complementing what the federal government did,” she said.

“We’ve already come out and said [last week’s behaviour at rallies is] unacceptable. I don’t know what more we could possibly say.

“The deputy premier has an absolute obsession with the CFMEU. He puts all unions in the same category as them. That is unfair.”

An elderly man has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly trying to strangle a woman in Ipswich.

Police said neighbours heard the disturbance, and intervened before calling officers to an Eastern Heights property about 6.30pm last night.

Officers arrested a 86-year-old Bracken Ridge man at the scene, and charged him with attempted murder, being a domestic violence offence.

Police said the man knew the 33-year-old Eastern Heights woman involved.

He is expected to appear at Ipswich Magistrates Court today.

A 21-year-old man accused of assaulting a Brisbane bus driver at the weekend has been granted bail, with his lawyer arguing the driver started the physical confrontation.

Echibaketa Byamungu was arrested at a Sunnybank address on Sunday night after footage emerged showing the 21-year-old allegedly assaulting a 46-year-old bus driver in South Bank on Friday.

Byamungu was charged with assault occasioning bodily harm and appeared in Brisbane Magistrates Court on Monday.

In an interview on 4BC this morning, Rail, Tram and Bus Union state secretary Tom Brown confirmed the accused had been granted bail, which he said had “further traumatised the driver”.

Lawyers for Byamungu argued the bus driver was the first in the altercation to become physical, and damaged the man’s phone while trying to force him off the bus.

Brown said it was no excuse for the level of violence witnessed, and continued to call for harsher penalties for passengers who committed acts of violence or anti-social behaviour on public transport.

The Gold Coast’s oldest resident, May Baker, has turned 109.

She celebrated with family, enjoying her favourite meal – lamb cutlets – and “a few mouthfuls” of wine.