$10.8 Billion in Debt: Analyst Explains How the State Election Has Affected the Queensland Budget

It has been touted as a cost-of-living budget designed to ease pressure, but a week on, a leading analyst says the Queensland 2024-25 budget is anything but.

Australian dollars are seen in an illustration photo on Feb. 8, 2018. Daniel Munoz/Reuters

The budget released on June 11 marked the start of the 2024 state election campaign, according to a leading financial analyst.

John Humphreys is the chief economist for the Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance and was a former treasury official working in the Budget Policy Division.