Queensland treasurer rejects budget ‘horror show’ and finally exorcises Campbell Newman’s ghost

The Queensland treasurer, David Janetzki, said of the state budget that Labor’s ‘scare campaign ends today’. Photograph: Darren England/AAP

Campbell Newman must be turning in his political grave.

But that is clearly the point of Queensland treasurer David Janetzki’s first state budget – a “no austerity” plan that grows the public sector, increases state debt to more than $200bn and is relatively free of ideological nasties.