Queensland’s 50c public transport fares to remain with support of both major parties

Queensland’s opposition leader, David Crisafulli, says the LNP would also keep the state’s 50c fares. Photograph: Andrew Sole/Alamy

The Queensland opposition says it will match the state government’s commitment to keep 50c public transport fares in place beyond the October election.

The cut-price bus, train and ferry tickets were initially slated as a trial – to run three months before and after election day – and had been criticised as a “desperate political gimmick” from a government struggling in the polls.