You can only spend a dollar once. When Queensland governments spend $9.5 billion on mining industry assistance, it’s $9.5 billion not available to schools, hospitals, roads, teachers, nurses, police officers, firefighters or doctors.

Queensland leads the nation in mining assistance and lags behind the rest of the nation in social services investment. There’s an easy way to fix that.

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