Shadow Assistant Treasurer and Ninderry MP Dan Purdie has highlighted the State’s debt crisis in Parliament this week, which has seen Queensland fall from grace as an economic powerhouse to battling for the wooden spoon.

Mr Purdie said thirty years ago, Queensland was the economic powerhouse of Australia, but today it was battling to avoid being awarded the wooden spoon.

“On every key economic performance indicator, this (Labor) government gets an epic fail,” Mr Purdie said.

“Under this government, business confidence has plummeted.

“The June Sensis Business Index has found this government to be the least popular for small and medium sized businesses, and productivity is down off the back of 23,000 workdays lost to trade union strike action.

“We now also have the highest unemployment rate in the nation at 6.4%, and there are 170,000 Queenslanders looking for a job,” Mr Purdie said.

With state debt projected to exceed $83billion, Mr Purdie said the Palaszczuk Government seem more than happy to pass that debt on to future generations.

“We know that this government robs Peter to pay Paul, and has no plan to steer our state into a future position of prosperity.

“In true Labor tradition, this government has a clear strategy of shirking the hard work, fudging figures, totally ignoring the real issues and failing to make the tough decisions to deal with debt.

“As I said in my maiden speech, the two highest priorities of any government is to keep its citizens safe and provide an economic environment in which its citizens can prosper.

“In both of these areas, this government has failed massively.”

Only the LNP has a plan to arrest debt, bust congestion and provide cheaper electricity, Mr Purdie said.