In one of the rowdiest sitting days this year,parliament erupted into several yelling matches.
At one point during question time,Speaker Curtis Pitt was forced to stop proceedings and warn both sides about the volume hitting a point where MPs could not even hear him telling them off.
The argy-bargy followed the first federal Labor budget since the Palaszczuk government came to power in 2015.
Never has the premierhad a friend like Anthony Albanese in Canberra – a point Annastacia Palaszczuk and her ministers hammered home while deriding a “decade of rorting,waste and pork-barrelling” under the Coalition.
But the state LNP opposition was quick to question whether Albanese was in fact their friend,given thatfunding for Queensland’s Hells Gate dam project had evaporatedand amid thelack of a new health funding agreement that state and territories are unlikely to stop pushing for.
Logan-born and raised Jim Chalmers has labelled his first budget as federal treasurer a responsible one. The Palaszczuk government echoed this sentiment,saying one economic document can’t undo the work of past governments,or address global pressures such as the war in Ukraine.