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TREASURER Josh Frydenberg will hand down the federal budget next week and we will learn how much money will flow for infrastructure, upgrades and other programs in Ipswich.
Ahead of the budget, the QT asked all of the cityâs elected representatives what they believed to be the priority projects in their patches.
As the fastest growing city in Queensland, Ipswich desperately needs the infrastructure to keep up the expected population growth with the total number of residents set to more than double to 558,000 in the next 20 years.
Hereâs what they said:
FEDERAL MEMBER FOR BLAIR SHAYNE NEUMANN (LABOR)
Federal Member for Capricornia Michelle Landry is calling on the state Labor members for Rockhampton and Keppel to step up and help Central Queensland’s “housing crisis”.
In a letter addressed to The Morning Bulletin, Ms Landry claimed Member for Rockhampton Barry O’Rourke and Member for Keppel Brittany Lauga had a “if I look away it will go away” attitude to local issues, including Central Queensland’s “housing affordability crisis”.
OPINION BY MICHELLE LANDRY
“The local state Labor members for Rockhampton and Keppel love to talk, but on this one they have been caught out by their ‘if I look away it will go away’ attitude to local issues.
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Subscriber only The number of state owned and managed public homes in Queensland has grown by about 2 per cent since the Palaszczuk Government came to power, new figures have revealed. As of 2020, there were 54,851 public homes that were managed and owned by the state government, an increase of 1069 homes from 2015 - or an average of about 213 a year. The new figures come after it was revealed that the number of applications on the social housing register deemed to be of very high need jumped by 50 per cent in the year to September amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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