Summarising the 2024 QLD Election Policy Platforms
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Labor: "Doing what matters for Queensland"
Labor
wants to support farmers by having $715 million of the budget dedicated
to better agricultural policy. For cost of living they wants to
continue policies like $1000 off energy bills, 50c public transport
fares, 20% off care rego, free kindy & TAFE, $1000 cash-back for
tools for first-year apprentices, $200 in FairPlay vouches, as well as a
new policy of free school lunches. As for crime prevention, Labor want
to hire more police, buy more equipment, and invest in early prevention
programs. For the environment, Labor will legislate a new target of 75%
reduction by 2035, they also wish to increase funding across the board
for emergency services to aid with disasters. Education-wise, Labor
wants to improve the 'digital skills' of children and hire new teachers.
On energy, they wish to continue the Queensland Energy & Jobs Plan
and replace coal with 80% renewables by 2035. They also wish to continue
the $107.3 billion 'Big Build' plan that spans over the next 4 years,
to retain and create new jobs that goes into housing, health, and other
infrastructure projects across Queensland. For example, 2,200 new
hospital beds, 11 hospital expansions, 7 satellite hospitals, 3 new
hospitals and a new QLD Cancer Centre.
Liberal Nationals: "A fresh start for Queensland"
For
youth crime, the LNP wants to enact a 'Adult Crime, Adult time' law and
other laws that strengthen and make the justice system faster; they
also want to hire more police and improve victim support by boosting
domestic violence helplines and provide more help for navigating the
justice system. They also want to strengthen the rehabilitation programs
to reduce the number of repeat offenders. For health, the LNP wants to
introduce real-time, transparent hospital data; reduce ambulance
ramping, reduce waitlists, and better triaging; and hire more doctors
& nurses for better health services. For cost of living, they want
to deliver more housing supply, stop budget blow outs, deliver cheaper
energy through an Electricity Maintenance Guarantee and boost women's
economic security, they also wish to remove the 'red tape' to allow QLD
to grow. For housing, they want to develop a new Regional Plan for the
whole state, and create Priority Development Areas, as well as create a
new $2 billion housing infrastructure fund, remove stamp duty on new
homes, and introduce a shared equity program, and deliver 53 500 new
social & community homes by 2044. They also wish to review the plan
for the Olympics & Paralympics, upgrade citical traffic chokepoints
and upgrade the Bruce Highway, as well as create a water security plan.
They also wish hire more teachers, and make sure kids are taught the
basics.
Greens:
The greens wish to freeze rents for 2 years, followed by a 1% cap on annual rent increases; create a Queensland State Bank with fair rates and no fees for cheaper mortgages;
and build 100 000 public housing units. They also wants to cap prices
for essentials and break up the Coles & Woolies duopoly. They also
wish to expand and make public transport free. They also wish to protect
the environment, move beyond coal & gas, raise mining royalties,
create a new public mining company and double the pace of Labor's
renewables transition. For health, they want to provide 200 free GP
clinics and increase funding for hospitals as well as 20 new free
psychology sessions. Education-wise, they want to give free sport, free
lunches and free breakfast for kids across Queensland as well as
providing more cost of living relief related to sending your child to
school.
One Nation:
For
cost of living, they want to remove 'net zero,' end vanity projects,
and hold Coles & Woolies to account. They also want to strengthen
crime laws, and have more accountability in the justice system as well
as more intervention. For energy they want to embrace nuclear, embrace
hydro and embrace coal and end renewable subsidies and prohibit
renewable projects. On housing, they want to end immigration and ban
foreign ownership to increase supply as well as streamline building
approvals and reduce fees associated with buying a home. On health, they
want dedicated healthcare for seniors and enhance ambulances and
regional health services. On education, they want to refocus curriculum
on the basics and strip the curriculum of any politically biased
material. For the regions, they support more water access, and
increasing investment in regional projects. They also wish to strengthen
the mining sector, promote manufacturing, remove wasteful expenditure
and streamline planning to strengthen the economy. For the environment,
they want to invest in disaster mitigation and promote conservation and
biodiversity by outlawing renewable projects as well as investing in new
tree-planting projects. They also want gun laws to be relaxed.
Family First: "worth fighting for"
Family
policy involves protecting children, giving freedom for families from
LGBTQIA+ ideology and discrimination laws; criminalise prostitution,
protect women from exploitation in porn & biological males in sport;
keep Australia drug free; encourage marriage & policy that build
the 'nuclear family;' give economic freedom for families through cutting
red tape for development, pause net zero, persue nuclear, debt
reduction, encourage small business, and reducing taxes; centre
education curriculum around the basics; and phase out gambling and
homelessness. For faith, encourage faith-based schools and protect
religious & speech freedoms. As for life policy, ban late term
abortions, support women and repeal euthanasia laws.
Katter's Australian Party:
For
agriculture, they want to give freedom to farmers to do what they want
with their land (no vegetation management laws), new scheme for for
primary producers to install solar pumps, a new Fair Milk Scheme to
ensure dairy farmers aren't being ripped off, and make multi-peril
insurance more affordable for our primary producers. To kick start the
regional economy, they want to stimulate economic development by
creating a special economic zone, a revised royalty framework that
reinvests into the regions where the royalties come from, as well as
creating a new rural development bank. For the environment, they want to
enforce the ethanol mandate, reverse farm-killing reef regulations and
want crocodile management. They also want gun laws to be relaxed. For
the First Nation community, they want alcohol management plans and
ensure title deeds can be issued to First Australians. For health they
wish health care access was more equitable and promote organ donorship.
As for infrastructure, they want to fix the Bruce Highway as well as
upgrading lots of regional highways as well as building new rail to
resources. For crime, they want to introduce relocation sentencing as
rehabilitation. And finally, they want to save country banks, properly
fund local government and ensure all-weather access to remote
communities.
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