Election 2009 Policies and Media Releases

To read Anna Bligh's Policies to Keep Queensland Strong, please see below:

NEW PAYROLL TAX INCENTIVE SCHEME FOR APPRENTICES AND TRAINEES
Premier Anna Bligh will target payroll tax incentives for apprentices and trainees in a move to cement job certainty and safeguard skills for...

CONGESTION-BUSTING FAST INCIDENT RESPONSE PLAN
Traffic-clogging peak-hour incidents will be cleared faster under the Government’s new congestion-busting $12.3 million incident response plan for...

PREMIER’S PLAN TO SUPPORT OUR HEROES
Premier Anna Bligh has launched a $12.98 million package to support Queensland’s SES and Rural Fire Fighting heroes. Under the plan the SES will...

BETTER HELICOPTER PART OF RECORD BEACH SAFETY BOOST
A better rescue helicopter, new rescue equipment and extra patrols will provide the biggest single boost in the 100-year history of Surf Life Saving...

PREMIER’S GREEN ARMY WILL FIGHT FOR QUEENSLAND JOBS
A ‘Green Army’ of over 3,000 people will fight for Queensland’s waterways, beaches, National Parks and green spaces under Premier Bligh’s $57 million...

CURFEWS IN YOUTH CRIME CRACKDOWN
Courts will be given new powers to impose curfews on juvenile offenders as part of a comprehensive crackdown on youth crime. Premier Anna Bligh...

BLIGH GOVERNMENT TO OPEN DOOR TO GREEN INDUSTRY FOR QUEENSLAND
The Premier has announced a plan to boost our green construction industry supporting new jobs and paving the way to more sustainable development...

SURGERY CONNECT EXPANSION TO KEEP WAITING LISTS SHORTEST IN AUSTRALIA
A plan to expand the Government’s successful Surgery Connect program will deliver up to 20,000 new elective operations in Queensland over the next...

PREMIER PROMISES PERFECT TEN FOR APPRENTICES
A policy stating that ten percent of workers on every State and Federal infrastructure project will be apprentices and trainees is set to be put in...

NEW KINDERGARTENS TO GIVE CHILDREN A FLYING START
The State Government will spend $32 million to open 18 new and two upgraded kindergartens at State and non-State schools across Queensland over the...

ACTION TO PROTECT JOBS IN THE NORTH WEST MINERAL PROVINCE
Premier Anna Bligh has announced more than $22 million worth of new projects in the North West over the next three years to create or retain hundreds...

$35 MILLION PLAN TO IMPROVE QLD FISHING FOR ANGLERS
NEW artificial reefs, pontoons and boat ramps are part of the State Government’s $35 million fishing infrastructure plan for Queensland. Premier...

Bligh Pledge on Children’s Health Upgrades
Premier Anna Bligh has released a plan to deliver better emergency care for children living in South East Queensland. The Premier said Emergency...

UPGRADES AND NURSE PRACTITIONERS TO BREAK HOSPITAL BOTTLENECKS
Premier Anna Bligh has launched a major new $250 million health building program and plan to train a team of 30 nurse practitioners to work in the...

BLIGH GOVERNMENT TO PROTECT TOURISM JOBS
Premier Anna Bligh has pledged nearly $38 million in new tourism initiatives as part of a record tourism marketing and infrastructure package for the...

Jobs, Tourism win from Bligh Government commitment to AFL Stadium
Premier Anna Bligh has announced $60 million in funding towards a $130 million AFL stadium at Carrara on the Gold Coast in a major jobs and tourism...

LITERACY AND NUMERACY PLAN TO GIVE EVERY CHILD EVERY CHANCE
A plan to invest over $72 million to improve literacy and numeracy standards in schools will mean that every student in Queensland is given every...

PREMIER TO EXPAND QUEENSLAND’S TRAINING SYSTEM
The State Government will invest over $124 million to help create nearly 150,000 training places over the next four years in a record expansion of...

BLIGH FUNDS MORE KEY BOWEN BASIN ROAD UPGRADES
A key Central Queensland road corridor will get a $6 million upgrade, Premier Anna Bligh said today. Ms Bligh said that passing lanes on the...

QUEENSLAND MADE MEANS QUEENSLAND JOBS
A scheme to make sure Queensland businesses and manufacturers get the maximum benefit from the State’s record capital works program will be expanded...

Prof John Wanna on Springborg's $1 billion cuts
Download the full report from Professor John Wanna on the effects of Springborg's $1 billion cuts on vital public services and jobs.

GAS SUPERHIGHWAY CLEARS THE WAY FOR LNG JOBS
Premier Anna Bligh has cleared the way for a gas ‘super-highway’ to facilitate a multi-billion dollar Liquid Natural Gas industry for Queensland.

LABOR TO CUT DANGEROUS REEF RUN-OFF BY HALF
The discharge of dangerous pesticides and fertilisers capable of killing the Great Barrier Reef will be cut by 50 per cent within four years, if...

100,000 JOBS TO KEEP QUEENSLAND STRONG
Premier Anna Bligh has pledged to create 100,000 new jobs to guide Queensland through the global financial crisis and make our State even stronger...

Premier will partner with the Bush on Climate Change
Premier Anna Bligh will change the law to make sure all Queensland farmers, including leasehold farmers, can take advantage of carbon trading schemes...

BLIGH GOVERNMENT TO HELP FUND CARE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
A re-elected Bligh Government will provide three million dollars to help fund respite care for young people with disabilities on the Gold...

WILD RIVERS PROGRAM HEADS FOR THE WEST
Labor has pledged to extend its ground-breaking Wild Rivers protection program to south-west Queensland’s channel country. Premier Anna Bligh said...

SOLAR PROGRAM TO SLASH POWER BILLS
Queensland families will save up to $300 a year on their electricity bills and dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions with a new solar hot...

SCIENCE AND SUPPORT BOOST FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS
Hundreds of new teacher aide positions and a plan to create more home-grown scientists for tomorrow’s Queensland has been announced by Premier Anna...

A SECOND CHANCE FOR THE BUSH
Endangered regrowth vegetation will be the subject of a three month clearing moratorium to allow talks between farmer groups and a new Labor...

BLIGH GOVERNMENT TO BUILD QUEENSLAND’S GREATEST WALK
A re-elected Bligh Government will start to build one of the longest and most spectacular walks in the world. Ms Bligh said the 2000 kilometre...

‘MUMS AND BUBS” POLICY FOR SUPPORT CLOSER TO HOME
Pregnant women in rural Queensland will receive extra care closer to home while more mothers will receive parenting support at new clinics, under a...

PREMIER BLIGH BACKING OUR POLICE
Premier Anna Bligh has pledged to create up to 600 new police jobs in Queensland over the next three years to keep numbers above the national average...

Bligh commits to Mall joint-funding
A re-elected Bligh Government will play a role in rebuilding the Flinders Street Mall. Member for Thuringowa and Minister for Natural Resources...

MORE CANCER TREATMENT FACILITIES FOR QUEENSLAND
A re-elected Bligh Government will increase the capacity of cancer oncology services in central Queensland, as well as fund new accommodation across...

New advertisement questions Springborg’s judgement over deputy leader
A new advertisement to be screened tonight will question LNP leader Lawrence Springborg’s judgement by highlighting his deputy Mark McArdle’s past...

Hopper hops on board: Shadow Ministers Buck Springborg's Efficiency Dividend
Ray Hopper has joined Rosemary Menkens in dismissing Lawrence Springborg’s proposed three per cent efficiency dividend across...

Bligh Government and Jetstar deliver new airline seats for Cairns
The Queensland Government has partnered with Jetstar to deliver four new services a week between Osaka in western Japan and Cairns – a massive 62,400...

ANNA BLIGH’S JOBS NOT CUTS TOUR
30 SEATS IN 3 DAYS Look out Queensland - Premier Anna Bligh is coming to a city, shopping centre, radio station or community meeting near...

ANNA BLIGH’S JOBS NOT CUTS TOUR LANDS IN TROPICAL NORTH QUEENSLAND
DAY 1 - 30 SEATS IN 3 DAYS Anna Bligh’s re-election campaign has returned to tropical north Queensland as part of her barnstorming “Jobs Not Cuts”...

BLIGH’S JOBS NOT CUTS TOUR FLIES INTO ROCKY
30 SEATS IN 3 DAYS Rockhampton: Anna Bligh’s bid to be re-elected Queensland Premier has her in Central Queensland this afternoon as part of her...

ROCKY CANCER CENTRE 1ST TO BENEFIT FROM NEW PACKAGE: BLIGH
Rockhampton: A Rockhampton cancer support service will be the first organisation to benefit from a re-elected Bligh Government’s new patient...

JOBS IN $20M NEW & UPGRADED FNQ POLICE FACILITIES
CAIRNS TO GET 13HOON BARRON RIVER: A new police hotline 13HOON giving local people an easy way to report crime will be in the Cairns area early...

PREMIER PLEDGES TO PROTECT APPRENTICES AND TRAINEESHIPS
PREMIER Anna Bligh has reinforced her ‘Jobs not Cuts’ message by pledging her Government will guarantee 5000 public sector apprenticeships and...

$13M FOR NEW AND UPGRADED POLICE FACILITIES IN TOWNSVILLE
TOWNSVILLE: Premier Anna Bligh has announced a new $12 Million Townsville District police facility at Deeragun and a $1 Million upgrade to the...

ANNA BLIGH’S JOBS NOT CUTS TOUR FLIES INTO NQ
Day 2 - 30 SEATS IN 3 DAYS Townsville: Premier Anna Bligh visited North Queensland today as her JOBS NOT CUTS entered day two of the plan to visit...

ANNA BLIGH’S JOBS NOT CUTS TOUR LANDS IN MACKAY
Day 2 - 30 SEATS IN 3 DAYS Mackay: Premier Anna Bligh has visited Mackay, Whitsunday and Mirani on day two of her JOBS NOT CUTS mission to visit...

Surf’s up for Eimeo Surf Lifesaving Club
WHITSUNDAY: Premier Anna Bligh has announced $100,000 in funding to complete a vital upgrade to the Eimeo Surf Lifesaving Club, during a visit to the...

$4 MILLION UPGRADE OF MACKAY POLICE STATION ANNOUNCED
MACKAY: Premier Anna Bligh has committed to a $4 Million upgrade of the Mackay Police Station if the Labor Government is re-elected. Ms Bligh said...

Bligh offers Mackay Showgrounds certainty
The Mackay Showgrounds will remain at its current site for at least three years, Premier Anna Bligh said today. “The earliest possible date for...

BLIGH’S JOBS NOT CUTS TOUCHES DOWN IN HERVEY BAY
Anna Bligh’s bid to be re-elected Queensland Premier is down to the second last day and one key issue, JOBS NOT CUTS. The Premier’s run home has...

MULTI BILLION DOLLAR BLACK HOLE IN OPPOSITION FUNDING
Treasurer Andrew Fraser has slammed the Opposition for their multi-billion fraud on the people of Queensland after they released their campaign...

$2 MILLION UPGRADE OF BURLEIGH HEADS POLICE COMPLEX ANNOUNCED
Premier Anna Bligh has announced a $2 Million upgrade of Burleigh Heads Police Complex if the Labor Government is re-elected. Ms Bligh said the...

NATIONALS CON GOLD COAST ON COSTINGS: FRASER
The $430 M1 Upgrade – Gone, Surf lifesaving upgrades – Gone, underground power from Mudgeeraba to Tugun - gone, so too are the thousands of jobs...

ANNA BLIGH’S JOBS NOT CUTS TOUR
DAY 3 - 30 SEATS IN 3 DAYS Like the famed rolling breakers along the Gold Coast shoreline, Anna Bligh’s “Jobs Not Cuts” tour has surged into...