A message from the Premier

Hi, everyone.

It's been a year since the election of the Government, and I just wanted to give you an update about some of the feedback.

As I've spent the last couple of weeks travelling the state and I want to give you the feedback because we've focused a lot on service delivery and some of the comments that have been made shows Queenslanders are embracing what you're doing at the coalface and what you're doing to provide the support structures to serve them.

I met a number of people who've got the elective surgeries they've been waiting for and to see the way that that's changing their lives.

I want to thank everybody in the health system who's done them. I want to thank everyone who has been involved in facilitating Surgery Connect.

But you're dealing with cataracts and hip replacements and colonoscopy—life changing surgeries. And it's been possible because of your work.

To those serving our students in the classroom, but also those who are planning for the delivery of the new schools, including those special schools, I want to say thanks very much. It means a lot to us.

And it's a really important part of a growing state to meet those demand pressures that come with people moving here, but also the opportunity to educate the next generation of Queenslanders.

People are telling me they're starting to feel a little safer in their homes. And while we've got a long way to go, I want to thank the police, the long-term experienced ones as well as the new ones coming in.

I want to thank those people who are working as part of the Youth Co-responder model, people who are working in the justice space to deliver the laws and the early intervention and the rehabilitation, the way that we're working with those agencies. A big thank you to everyone involved.

Housing's been a big focus and to everyone working in the department, there's been some big changes, but overall we focused on getting more people with a roof over their head.

We are focused on working with councils to get more land out the door.

Through EDQ, we're looking at partnerships to bring on new opportunities right across the board. If you played a role in whether it's infrastructure delivery or housing, we're most grateful.

And we've all got a role to play on cost of living and the way that the Government is really focused on respecting your money, that's a result of the way that things are working, and I'm most grateful.

To everyone who has been involved in any capacity. The delivery of infrastructure to the delivery of those programs that make people feel special in a community and connected.

Whether you help facilitating those industries that have made us great for so long— agriculture, tourism, mining—or whether you're part of the new opportunities in medical research and education and those businesses who are relocating.

Whatever all you play, I just want you to know we're most grateful for what you do.

Above all, I want to thank you for your frank feedback, and that's something that as I've asked the ministers to walk the floors to do everything possible to speak directly to you.

I want to create a culture where you feel like you can raise issues, where you think are going well, but equally where you think need improvement.

And I just want to say thanks. Thanks for what you've done and thanks for enabling me the opportunity to serve this state and work with you to do it.