This will be helped by the balance of those exiting and entering the state,leaving Queensland with 28,900 more residents this financial year,and more than 21,000 across each of the next four – the largest net cross-border increase of any state or territory.

NSW is set to lose more than Queensland gainsover the same period – something its new premier has put down to cost-of-living pressures and higher pay – while Victoria will only pick up 2000 to 3000 extra residents.

Queensland Health Minister Yvette D’Ath is gearing up to launch her latest campaign to “poach” health workers from interstate,while Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced a $20,000 relocation bonus for experienced police officers earlier on Tuesday.

But with housing pressures and living costs biting,Chalmers’ budget also featured a$5.7 billion Medicare funding boost aimed at lowering the cost of visiting a doctor,along with increases in rent assistance and income support,plus electricity bill subsidies in partnership with the states.

In state parliament earlier on Tuesday,Palaszczuk reiterated calls for more federal funding to boost access to GPs and help patients in public hospitals move on to aged care or disability support.

She also called for funding for transport infrastructure,including Bruce and Pacific highway upgrades,faster rail to Logan and the Gold Coast – along with planning for stage four of that city’s light rail – and Sunshine Coast rail upgrades.

Palaszczuk pointed to the state’s disproportionate share of properties – 7400 – that are set to fall off the National Rental Affordability Scheme by 2026,a gap Treasurer Cameron Dick previously said there was“no way” the state could fill.

Dick will deliver his government’s ninth budget in just over a month,on June 13. Little detail of that has been revealed so far,other than a promise that it will include “further cost of living relief” above the$175 electricity rebate already announced.

The following day,Brisbane City Council will deliver its own budget,which last yearpassed $4 billion for the first time and lifted rates by 5 per cent.