The Foundations for a Fresh Start
The Crisafulli Government’s 2025–26 Budget is Delivering for Queensland with 1,600 police recruits, stronger laws and new programs to turn kids away from crime, 15 new schools and $300 in vouchers for education essentials and kids sport, 3 new hospitals and 10 major upgrades with more free healthcare than ever before, a new nation-leading home ownership scheme to reduce the deposit gap, and major Bruce Highway upgrades and new road and rail projects to get you home sooner.
Our priorities
Safety where you live
More police, better resourced courts, effective early intervention and rehabilitation, and better support for the prevention of domestic and family violence.
A better lifestyle through a stronger economy
Targeted cost of living relief as well as structural, long-term measures to put downward pressure on energy prices and ease pressure on rents.
Health services where you need them
Reducing ambulance ramping, more than 2,600 hospital extra beds, including 3 new and 10 upgraded hospitals, new CT and MRI machines, and 4,500 extra health workers.
A plan for Queensland’s future
Generational infrastructure to connect Queensland including The Wave all the way to the Sunshine Coast Airport, Faster Rail to the Gold Coast, Barron River Bridge, Bribie Island Bridge, Mooloolah River Interchange, and $9 billion of upgrades for the Bruce Highway.
$5.2B
MAKING OUR COMMUNITY SAFER PLAN with stronger laws, more police, better resourced courts, effective youth early intervention and rehabilitation, and better support for prevention of domestic and family violence.
$18.5B
HOSPITAL RESCUE PLAN for more than 2,600 extra hospital beds including 3 new hospitals, 10 hospital expansions and more regional health services.
$4.7B
GAMES DELIVERY PLAN to get on with implementing the 2032 Delivery Plan with venues and villages.
$33.1B
RECORD HEALTH BUDGET for health services when you need them including more ambulances, more health workers and more free healthcare than ever before.
$116.8B
RECORD INFRASTRUCTURE BUDGET for generational infrastructure for our future to get our busy roads flowing again and deliver a safer Bruce Highway.
$8.1B
RECORD HOUSING BUDGET with a place to call home for more Queenslanders through a new Boost to Buy nation-leading home ownership scheme to reduce the deposit gap, boosted home owner grants and new social and community housing.
$21.9B
RECORD EDUCATION BUDGET to help kids catch up, keep up and stay in school, with more teachers, safer classrooms, new primary schools and special schools.
Key initiatives
Play On!
More affordable and accessible sport for all Queensland kids with $200 Play On! voucher Program to help reduce the cost of participation in the biggest investment ever.
$347.7M Making Queensland Safer laws roll-out
Restoring safety where you live with strong laws and consequences for actions.
$165M Boost to Buy
Helping unlock home ownership sooner and deliver a place to call home for more Queenslanders with a new nation-leading scheme to reduce the deposit gap.
$100 Back to School Boost
Vouchers for primary school students to help cover the cost of school essentials every year.
$560M early intervention and rehabilitation
Making our community safer with new early intervention and rehabilitation programs to prevent and break the cycle of repeat youth crime.
$5.5B The Wave
Delivering seamless public transport from Brisbane all the way to the Sunshine Coast Airport, with heavy passenger rail to Birtinya and Metro through Maroochydore CBD to the Airport, with $40 million additional funding to accelerate project planning for stages 2 and 3.
15 new schools
New schools in Caloundra South, Ripley Valley and Gracemere, a Health Sciences Academy in Rockhampton, Crime Prevention and Youth Justice Schools, as well as 6 new special schools to help our kids catch up, keep up and stay in school.
$5.6B new community and social housing
A place to call home for more Queenslanders with record investment for more social and community homes, delivering 53,500 new homes by 2044.
$5.75B Faster Rail to the Gold Coast
Delivering Faster Rail between Logan and the Gold Coast with $5.75 billion jointly funded with the Australian Government.
$147.9M to resource police
Resourcing our police so they can make our community safer, with new tasers, vests and safety equipment.
$2B Residential Activation Fund
Unlocking more land for housing supply with funding to help kick-start new housing developments through essential housing infrastructure.
$9B Bruce Highway upgrades
Locking in a historic 80:20 funding deal with the Australian Government, with $1.8 billion additional funding to deliver safety improvements up the spine of our State.
$1.8B Surgery Waitlist Stabilisation
More elective surgeries when and where Queenslanders need them, including partnering with the private sector through the Surgery Connect program to reduce waitlists and have patients seen sooner.
2 taxes axed to save Queenslanders
Opening the door to home ownership for more Queenslanders by abolishing stamp duty on new homes for first buyers, and stopping Queenslanders paying more at the doctor by axing the Patients’ Tax.
$20M Returning to Work package
Removing the economic barriers for women transitioning back to the workforce after having children, caring for family or following illness.
$1.7B ambulance ramping reduction
Health services when you need them with initiatives to reduce ambulance ramping below 30 per cent by 2028 and deliver more paramedics.