Queensland budget 2025: Crisafulli vows no austerity despite state facing $218bn debt
Premier says you can ‘respect people’s money’ and still lift public services as LNP hands down first budget since 2014
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The Queensland premier, David Crisafulli, has promised no austerity in his first budget, despite the state facing a forecast $218bn in debt.
Tuesday’s state budget will be the Liberal National party’s first since 2014. Then led by premier Campbell Newman, the LNP lost government in 2015 after slashing tens of thousands of public service positions and proposing the sell-off of public assets to balance the books.
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