Cautious welcome for Qld Budget

The Civil Contractors Federation Queensland welcomes the strong prioritisation of infrastructure in the Queensland 2025-2026 State Budget, but says there is reason to consider the potential impacts of how the infrastructure projects are planned.

- Damian Long

While the number of projects in the pipeline are valued over $1 billion, it is essential to ensure local contractors can tender for the projects. It is critical to ensure local and regional contractors are directly engaged in order to support the delivery of the pipeline. Project planning must consider the size of projects to engage all of the market participants. Collaboration from planning through to construction must be a priority. CCF Qld has long advocated for more resources to be spent addressing the critical shortage of s