The election must be getting close when the government starts giving away electricity to everyone?!?

https://www.9news.com.au/national/queensland-energy-bill-price-relief-1000-dollar-rebate-2024-25-financial-year/fc9781cc-c471-47e6-a318-a9f43ba8987f



Queenslanders to get $1000 off energy bills under new state government rebates


By Daniel Jeffrey

7:36pm May 2, 2024

Every household in Queensland will get a $1000 discount on their electricity bills under an expanded energy rebate scheme announced by the state government.
Premier Steven Miles and Treasurer Cameron Dick say the program will save Queensland residents more than $2.5 billion and is the largest cost-of-living relief initiative ever offered by a state government

Who is eligible for the relief?
The Queensland government says every household in the state will receive the rebates.
There's no need to apply for the relief.
"To be eligible, residential customers must have an electricity account with their electricity retailer or embedded network provider on 1 July 2024 and be separately metered and charged for their own electricity consumption," the government said.
Some people will get access to further relief.
"Eligible seniors, pensioners and concession card holders will receive $1372 off their power bills," the government said.

Buying votes.

Why not just lower taxes instead? Like all those random ones that were supposed to get replaced by the GST.

freediver wrote on May 3^rd, 2024 at 6:17am:

Buying votes. Why not just lower taxes instead? Like all those random ones that were supposed to get replaced by the GST.

Not long to go - just over 6 months:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Queensland_state_election

The 2024 Queensland state election is scheduled to be held on 26 October 2024

to elect all members to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland pursuant to the Constitution (Fixed Term Parliament) Amendment Act 2015. As a result of the 2016 Queensland term length referendum, the term of the parliament will run for four years.[1][2]

The Labor government will attempt to win a fourth term against the Liberal National Party, currently led by David Crisafulli, Queensland Greens, Legalise Cannabis Queensland and various other parties and independents. On 10 December 2023, Annastacia Palaszczuk announced her resignation after more than eight years in government, prompting a leadership vote to elect a new leader and subsequently Premier.[3]

Hope THAT disease spreads to NSW as quickly as the Aboriginal Revolution Virus....

All that warm feeling towards our homegrowns - gone in a single putsch by governments elect and unelect to force on us what we voted down....

There go the foundations of our democracy - still awaiting birth as it was in reality - and clearly now to be still-born from the rubble of the 1960's odd 'quiet revolutions' - a time of hopes and dreams for a real future for Australia - through the violent days of the 'feminist' revolt (sire, sire - they're revolting now!!   They always have been, Baldrick...) .. the vile intrusions of wrongful government policies in countless way, and all designed to undermine the political power and personal and social power of the individual and family (unless you are a Mediterraneo Patriarchal family which now owns all the houses and businesses and you dorks fight one another over who should handle the credit card in the house, run the family, which creche to send your kids to for indoctrination, or feel validated or something... Mama she feel invalidated alla time, but she suck it up  for da family ...

Hear me, O Critias... that once within the Pillars of Sydney Heads there dwelt a race of giants, of gods walking the earth..... a civilisation of growing nobility and benefit for all; of culture and science ..... all destroyed in a single day and a single night of flame and flood....... the flames of whiners left and right.... and floods of tears and vitriol that now substitute for discussion ..... and lo, they have become Death, Destroyer of Words .... and no trace of it remains as the clouds from the everlasting eruptions of madness grow darker and darker and the light ahead dimmer ....

Hear me, O Critias!!  Your opportunity is here and now - it will not come again .............. not in your lifetime, or your children's or your grand-children's .... and there is no noble warrior to ride out of the West to save you all this time ...... you must save yourselves ....

Giggles is getting desperate

Last month's bill was $18. I suppose $1000 will last me about 7 months, given that my regular power bill is about $140.