The Palaszczuk Budget does very little for the regional Queenslanders who generate the wealth her green pipe dreams rely on, writes Nick Cater.
Yet Annastacia Palaszczuk’s vision of turning Queensland into the green super state means that high voltage power lines from Townsville to Mt Isa have become a spending priority.
Treasurer Cameron Dick had money to burn in Tuesday’s Queensland Budget thanks to the government’s policy of squeezing the coal industry dry. It is an unfortunate fact of life that the regions generating wealth, which the government then taxes, seldom get to decide how the money is spent. Infrastructure spending on hospitals remained static after inflation at $1.6 billion as does the capital spending on schools.
Energy Minister Chris Bowen’s claim that generating 82 per cent of the nation’s electricity by wind and solar by 2030 will somehow cut power bills is exposed as ridiculous by the amount of spending in this week’s Queensland Budget. Ideological fervour concentrated in our capital cities is pushing renewable energy to the top of the spending priority list, squeezing out spending on the national interest.
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