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Delivering essential infrastructure and services

Delivering essential infrastructure and services is critical to the economic and social wellbeing of all Queenslanders. Over the last decade, the State Labor Government has failed to plan and invest in infrastructure and services across the board. As a result, Queenslanders are now forced to:

• Drive on roads that are falling apart, overcrowded and dangerous
• Live with severe water restrictions in many areas
• Suffer increasingly long waiting periods, or travel long distances to access basic hospital and health services
• Worry about their personal safety both inside and outside their homes
• Suffer blackouts, or pay more for their electricity, as a result of a failure to invest in adequate power transmission facilities.

The Queensland Coalition is committed to good planning and effective and efficient infrastructure and service delivery. We’ll deliver infrastructure and services before crisis points are reached and people are forced to suffer.

A trademark of the Queensland Coalition’s performance in providing essential infrastructure and services is that we actually deliver – as opposed to the State Labor Government who does little else but talk, make shallow promises, release glossy plans and brochures and when the crisis point is reached, blame everyone else for their failures.

The Queensland Coalition is committed to fast tracking critical infrastructure and restoring essential services that have been worn down and neglected after nearly a decade of the State Labor Government. We will achieve this by working with Local Governments, regional bodies and the private sector to identify priorities and deliver critical infrastructure throughout Queensland.

We will also rebuild essential services by re-focusing Government departments on getting the basics right. Engineers, police, fire and ambulance officers, doctors and nurses will tell us what is needed. We will give them a voice in getting the priorities right, whether it is in the city, our rapidly growing coastal regions or smaller rural and remote communities.

We have a proven track record of delivering critical infrastructure in short periods of time – the M1 is a good example. The Coalition built the highway from Brisbane to the Gold Coast in just two years when everyone, including Labor Members, said it couldn’t be done. We also rebuilt the hospital system and boosted police numbers after years of decline.