Key priorities of the 2009–10 Budget are delivering jobs for Queensland, strengthening community services and returning the Budget to surplus. This includes:
- an estimated $18.2 billion in capital spending—supporting some 127,000 full-time jobs
- a 25% payroll tax rebate on the eligible wages of apprentices and trainees in 2009–10, in addition to these wages being exempt from payroll tax
- an increase to the first home buyer vacant land concession
- an 8.2% increase in funding to health services.