- Budget is strengthening the foundations for a fresh start with practical initiatives for Indigenous communities, multicultural communities, and women's economic security.
- Bolstering women's economic security with targeted support through the Women's Career Grants, Jobs Academy, and Empowering Queensland Women Grants programs.
- Delivering practical public health and critical infrastructure in the next round of Closing the Gap Priorities Fund projects in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
- Multicultural Connect grants to bring communities together with upgrades to meeting spaces and community halls.
The Crisafulli Government is delivering for Queensland with practical initiatives to help Close the Gap in Indigenous communities, empower culturally diverse communities, and unlock women's economic security, in the 2026-27 Budget.
The $167.2 million Women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships and Multiculturalism Budget is strengthening the foundations for a fresh start, with better services through a stronger economy.
21 new public health and critical and essential infrastructure projects will be delivered in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities through the Closing the Gap Priorities Fund with $73 million.
Women's Career Grants will continue to support more women choosing to return to paid work after career breaks and help to remove barriers to employment while women's economic security is being further supported by the expanded Jobs Academy program, and ongoing Empowering Queensland Women Grants.
The Multicultural Connect grants program will help to build stronger communities with support to upgrade community halls, meeting spaces or sporting facilities for community use with $3.75 million this financial year.
This will be complemented by a $1.53 million Social Cohesion Package supporting initiatives such as the African Village program.
During Labor's decade of decline, the former Government failed to invest in women's economic security, focused on stoking division rather than delivering tangible outcomes for our First Peoples, and spread fear over facts in culturally diverse communities which weakened social cohesion.
Treasurer David Janetzki said the 2026-27 Budget was about delivering for Queensland with better services through a stronger economy.
"We are delivering on our promises, with relief you can rely on through responsible decisions for now and the future, and no new or increased taxes," Treasurer Janetzki said.
"This Budget strengthens the foundations we've laid in making Queensland safer, restoring health services, delivering a place to call home for more Queenslanders, building generational infrastructure, getting the Games back on track, as well as playing our part to ease national cost of living pressures."
Minister for Women and Women's Economic Security, Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships, and Minister for Multiculturalism Fiona Simpson said the Budget was delivering practical support for Queensland's diverse communities to overcome economic and social barriers to fully participate and thrive.
"This Budget is about delivering practical support where it can make a real difference in communities, workplaces and the everyday lives of Queenslanders," Minister Simpson said.
"By investing in public health and critical and essential infrastructure in Indigenous communities, we are backing locally prioritised projects that help deliver real tangible outcomes, better services and stronger foundations for the future.
"We are also supporting more women to pursue their career goals, improving women's economic security and helping our culturally diverse communities upgrade the spaces that bring people together."
