Scrap stage-three tax cuts to fight inflation rather than cut infrastructure funding, Queensland says

Traffic leaving Brisbane and heading south towards the Gold Coast on the Pacific Motorway. Queensland treasurer Steven Miles has hit back at suggestions states cut back on infrastructure spending to dampen inflationary pressures. Photograph: Darren England/AAP

The Queensland deputy premier has demanded that federal Labor explain why it is cutting infrastructure spending to fight inflation rather than revisiting controversial tax cuts for high income earners.

Steven Miles has upped the pressure on the Albanese government over looming infrastructure cuts in an opinion piece in the Courier-Mail, arguing it is “too late” to cut projects to fight inflation and urging it to reconsider stage-three tax cuts instead.