The Queensland 2025-26 State Budget was handed down on 24 June 2025. Here are some highlights:
Backing small and family business
- Empowering small business through the Small Business Support Network with financial counselling and coaching, with $16.8 million over 3 years.
- Delivering seamless access to government support through a Business Concierge for small businesses and Queenslanders, with $10.3 million over 4 years.
- Easing Queensland’s skills shortage with more skilled training through 3 new TAFE Centre of Excellence sites in Rockhampton, Moreton Bay and Caloundra, and a Marine Centre of Excellence in Southern Moreton Bay Islands with $201.1 million over 4 years, as well as $79.1 million for the Transforming Queensland Manufacturing program.
Growing the primary industries
- Boosting agricultural productivity with state-of-the-art research through a $30 million investment over 4 years for the Sowing the Seeds of Farming Innovation fund.
- Boosting drought resilience for agriculture through $51.9 million over 4 years.
- Protecting our primary industries from invasive pests and diseases by beefing up biosecurity with $60.9 million over 5 years and 100 additional frontline biosecurity staff in regional Queensland.
Tourism
- The government is providing additional funding of $446 million over 4 years to support Destination 2045: Delivering Queensland’s Tourism Future, including funding for aviation attraction, event attraction and new product development and further supplementation for Tourism and Events Queensland. This brings the government’s total investment in tourism to over $1 billion over 4 years.
Safety where you live
- Supporting small businesses to prevent crime by bolstering security with $40 million across 3 years for the Secure Communities Partnership Program.
- Protecting and supporting victims of crime with $275 million this year for financial assistance, $50 million for a new Victims Advocate Service, $12.9 million over 4 years for the Victims of Crime Community Response program and a major boost to the capacity of Victim Liaison Services to support victims navigate the justice system.
Cost of living support
- Reducing schooling costs each year with the $100 Back to School Boost for primary school students with $188.6 million over 4 years.
- Removing the economic barriers preventing women seeking to transition back into the workforce after having children, caring for family, or following illness with a new Returning to Work package, with $20 million over 4 years.
- Reducing energy bills for renters with up to $3,500 rebates for solar panels on rental properties as part of the Supercharged Solar for Renters Program, with $26.3 million over 3 years.
- Reducing energy costs for vulnerable Queensland households by boosting the Electricity Rebate Scheme to $386 in 2025-26, and resuming indexation to restore fairness.
- Supporting Queenslanders experiencing financial challenges with the Queensland Financial Resilience Program, with $2.2 million in 2025-26.
- Helping Queenslanders in financial hardship by restoring assistance to emergency relief providers with $3.5 million in 2025-26.
- Reducing costs for trainee tradies with Free Apprenticeships for Under 25s across 130 priority apprenticeship and traineeship qualifications, with $10 million over 2 years.
Housing support
- Bringing home ownership within reach of more Queenslanders with a new Boost to Buy scheme to help reduce the deposit gap, with $165 million over 2 years.
- Easing the Housing Crisis by kick-starting new housing developments with critical infrastructure in a $2 billion investment through the Residential Activation Fund with at least half invested in regional Queensland.
- Boosting the First Home Owner Grant to $30,000 for 12 months, to help Queenslanders buy or build their first new home sooner.
Creative arts
- The government is providing increased funding of $38.2 million in 2025-26 for Screen Industry Attraction and Development.
- The government is providing increased funding of $9.4 million in 2025-26 to restore funding for the Regional Arts Services Network, and funding for key regional arts festivals to support cultural tourism outcomes.
Disaster support
- The government is providing additional funding of $40 million per year ongoing from 2025-26 towards the Queensland Betterment Fund, delivering high priority betterment infrastructure projects.
- Additional funding of $280 million over 4 years ($330 million over 5 years) from Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA) Efficiencies towards the Queensland Resilience and Risk Reduction Program (QRRRP), to support high priority disaster resilience and mitigation projects, strengthening Queensland communities’ resilience to natural disasters.
Budget papers can be found here.