The state budget for Queensland is due to be handed down later today with Queensland Treasurer Cameron Dick indicating overall lower debts and deficits and a greater focus on infrastructure spending than the pre-covid-19 pandemic.
Mr Dick justifies the fifty billion dollar spending on infrastructure as a quote “a path out of the pandemic”, however, the new budget does not indicate new spending on social housing or immediate support for small business owners who suffered critical losses as a result of the pandemic.
We will continue to update our coverage on the budget throughout the morning...