Who said what about Queensland's budget:
"We make no apologies for borrowing to invest in infrastructure. It's the right thing for jobs today but it's also critical for our economic productivity in the future." - Queensland Treasurer Jackie Trad.
"Debt is stable, it is sustainable and it is responsibly funding much needed infrastructure for our communities and for our economy." -- Ms Trad.
"We live in a very big state, it's about five times the size of Japan, and we have to build the infrastructure for our growing state." -- Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk
"The only infrastructure crisis has been created by a Labor government." -- Liberal National Party leader Deb Frecklington.
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"This is a budget of broken dreams and broken promises for the next generation." -- Ms Frecklington.
"We can see in the budget that coal prices and dividends have delivered a sugar hit for the 2017/18 budget surplus." -- Dr Pradeep Philip, Deloitte Access Economics
