Advocacy and representing Queenslanders

Queensland Matters

RACQ is urging our state and federal governments to green-light vital road and transport projects throughout Queensland. 

Queensland Matters outlines RACQ’s priorities including a range of key infrastructure projects and policies aimed at saving lives, boosting sustainability, increasing roads and natural disaster resilience and affordability, and ensuring smart infrastructure spending. 

Since the last federal election, more than 740 people have been killed on Queensland roads and thousands more have been injured. 

Our number one priority is to reduce this number by advocating for the federal government to commit to reinvesting 100% of fuel excise back into road upgrades and transport infrastructure. 

RACQ’s priorities for Queensland include: 

• $10.3 billion for road, motorway and inland highway upgrades. 
• $900 million to expand the national EV fast-charging network.
• $810 million for rail infrastructure and railway level crossing upgrades.
• $400 million for cycling and active transport including Brisbane ‘green’ bridges. 

RACQ is also calling for: 

• A commitment to deliver on the Productivity Commission’s landmark Natural Disaster Funding Arrangements inquiry of 2015 which called for a five-fold increase in disaster mitigation funding.
• Immediate funding for risk-reducing projects that are ‘shovel ready’, for instance the Bundaberg flood levy.
• Development of a national building register to capture and codify standards for resilience and mitigation measures built into new and retrofitted properties.
• Creation of a nation-wide land use planning standard for flood-affected land and properties. 

See our priority projects