00:00Geordie Duffy spends up to $140 a week catching public transport.
00:08The 27-year-old takes the train from the Sunshine Coast to University in Brisbane.
00:13Cost of living still is a big issue and how it disproportionately has impacted students
00:19in particular.
00:20They've welcomed a trial of 50 cent public transport fares funded in the budget, which
00:25will cut their costs to $5 a week.
00:28It allowed me to have a little bit of extra funding to provide for other bills for instance.
00:34In Townsville, Harry Newitt is pleased to get another electricity rebate, but he says
00:39reduced fares won't be much help.
00:42The public transport is not up to scratch yet in Townsville.
00:47The state government is driving the budget into deficit to pay for billions in hip pocket
00:52relief.
00:53The Greens say Labor's only offering short-term sugar hits.
00:57Well, the housing crisis, the cost of living crisis, they're not going to just disappear
01:02next year, but Labor's pre-election sweeteners will.
01:05The domestic violence support sector has also been left wanting.
01:09It will be really important for us to see a shift in investment so that any victims
01:15who are needing support in their local community can access it.
01:18The opposition used Parliament to seize on comments made by the Treasury yesterday that
01:24the upcoming state election shouldn't be a referendum on Labor's past nine years in
01:30office.
01:31In reply, Labor was all too keen to remind the LNP about its track record.
01:37The Treasurer spent the day selling his fifth budget to the party faithful, not shying away
01:43from the past.
01:44We are incredibly proud of that record.
01:46I stand by all of those things, but of course every election is about the future.
01:52Housing will be the centrepiece of the opposition leader's reply tomorrow.
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