Media Statements
Counter-fatigue measures to help save lives
One thousand kilometres of Queensland’s main roads will be treated with audible linemarking as part of the Bligh Government’s commitment to reversing the increase in fatigue-related fatalities.
PREMIER URGES QUEENSLAND TAKE A MOMENT TO REMEMBER VICTORIA
Premier Anna Bligh today urged Queenslanders across the State to participate in tomorrow’s National Day of Mourning for those affected by the tragic bush fires in Victoria
COOLANGATTA: Former Gold Coast girl Premier Anna Bligh returned to the Gold Coast today to witness the re-enactment at Greenmount Beach of the first recorded surf rescue on a Queensland beach
Queensland Government calls for builders to sign up
Public Works Minister Robert Schwarten has urged Queensland building contractors to get ready to take part in $3 billion worth of housing and schools projects available under the Federal Government’s Economic Stimulus Package.
Statement from Queensland Treasurer Andrew Fraser regarding Queensland's credit rating:
Queensland artists to showcase at Musexpo Los Angeles 2009
Queensland artists to showcase at Musexpo Los Angeles 2009
Communities Minister Lindy Nelson-Carr has today announced more than $697,300 in Bligh Government funding for three local organisations, safeguarding local jobs and services
Communities Minister Lindy Nelson-Carr has today announced a funding boost for local organisations to safeguard jobs and ensure services continue for the next three years
$750,000 TOWARDS BETTER HEALTH IN WANDOAN
Xstrata Coal Queensland and the Queensland Government have announced a partnership through which Xstrata Coal will invest $750,000 over three years to improve medical and allied health facilities in the southern inland mining town of Wandoan.
Qld’s Largest Kids Hospital: First to go on Nicholls’ infrastructure hit list
Shadow Treasurer Tim Nicholls has revealed the first infrastructure project to be cut if the Opposition won government would be the $1.1 billion Queensland Children’s Hospital.
New Gladstone office will provide critical jobs for region
Premier Anna Bligh has today opened the first of two regional offices of oil and gas exploration and production company Santos in Gladstone in a move that will create more jobs for the region.
Global Financial Crisis wipes out $12 billion of revenue: Fraser
The full force of the global financial crisis on Queensland was given a price tag of $12 billion by Treasurer Andrew Fraser today