Western Queensland

Regional delivery — Queensland Budget 2026-27

1
Tracked initiatives
22
Social homes in progress

Across budgets

Tracked across 2 budgets (2025-26 to 2026-27).

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Highlights

  • •Five new weirs along the Thomson River in Longreach
  • •Country Roads Connect
  • •Social and community housing
  • •Regional health services

Health & social services

Social housing

22 homes in construction or under contract

Capital works & projects

11 projects from the Regional Delivery Plan.

Education1 project
School facility upgrades (Tambo and Windorah state schools)—
Transport2 projects
Diamantina Developmental Road sealing works (Country Roads Connect)—
Queensland Beef Corridors (including Alpha-Tambo Road)—
Housing1 project
Homes for frontline workers (Longreach, Blackall)—
Safety2 projects
Rural Fire Service Queensland trucks$20.5M
Disaster Event System Replacement$6.1M
Infrastructure3 projects
Longreach water security (five weirs along Thomson River)$12M
Residential Activation Fund (Bedourie, Jundah, Tambo, Ilfracombe)—
Regional Connectivity Program Round 2 (NBN and mobile infrastructure)$9.9M
Environment1 project
Great Artesian Basin Water Security Program$46M
Economy1 project
John Miller Industrial Estate Expansion (Barcaldine)$7M

Source: Regional Delivery Plan. Not all projects have published amounts.

Region-specific budget initiatives

Residential Activation Fund Round 2$1B totalExpandedCapitalAnnounced

Funds the roads, water and sewerage needed to unlock thousands of new home sites across the state, with at least $1 billion reserved for regional communities.

Round 2 doubled to $1 billion, part of the $2 billion Residential Activation Fund. Year-by-year profile not separately disclosed in BP4.

Department of State Development, Infrastructure and PlanningHousing & RentingRegional Queensland

Statewide measures

Most budget measures are allocated statewide rather than to individual regions. The full budget overview lists all 101 tracked initiatives, many of which deliver services in Western Queensland. The Regional Delivery Plan (linked below) details specific capital works and programs for this region.

Source document

Regional Delivery Plan — Western Queensland (PDF)

Last updated: 2026-06-24. Factual information from published budget documents.