Universal Public Health 

Every year Queensland Health has to rent beds from private hospitals just to deal with the flu season. It’s difficult to access a bulk-billing GP and the waiting list for elective surgery is increasing every year. It’s clear we need to invest more in public healthcare.

• The Greens will hire 6,500 more nurses and 3,000 more doctors, and create 21,000 additional hospital beds.
   

• Establish 200 public health clinics with free publicly funded and paid GPs

Fully Fund Public Education

Public education should be free. But last year Queensland parents had to pay $89 million in school service fees, and millions more in extra costs. Queensland state schools are the most underfunded state schools in the country because the Queensland Government only provides 69.26% of the needs-based funding to state schools. 

• The Greens will fully fund Queensland state schools with an extra $7 billion over four years for smaller class sizes, more teachers, better resources, and no fees
   
• Create an additional $250 million yearly school infrastructure fund to upgrade existing state schools and build new schools in areas of need
   
• Abolish all school service fees, excursion costs and textbook costs

How We Pay For It 

Queensland is a wealthy state but Labor's decision to freeze mining royalties means ordinary people will pay for this crisis. Over the last 10 years mining corporations have exported over $480 billion in resources but only paid 7% in royalties. While banks and developers made billions in profit. So the Greens think big corporations should pay.  Here’s how:

• Increase mining royalties to raise $55 billion over four years
   
• Introduce a 0.05% levy on the big banks to raise $4.6 billion over four years
   
• Tax developers on land value gains from rezoning, reducing corruption and raising $7.8 billion over four years.