Queensland Budget 2026: UQ experts
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The 2026 state budget will be handed down tomorrow and is expected to address cost‑of‑living relief, infrastructure investment and health funding.
The University of Queensland has experts available to analyse the budget and comment across a range of topics.
Finance
Dr Natalie Peng, UQ Business School
Expertise: household financial wellbeing, cost-of-living pressures, household saving and financial security, retirement savings and gender equity in financial outcomes.
Contact: x.peng@business.uq.edu.au.
Housing
Professor Shaun Bond, UQ Business School
Expertise: economics of housing, real-estate market and volatility in financial markets.
Contact: s.bond@business.uq.edu.au.
Health
Professor Brenda Gannon, School of Economics and Mater Research Institute
Expertise: health and ageing economics, economic evaluation of health and social care systems and policies including Medicare, PBS, and the care economy across the lifespan.
Contact: brenda.gannon@uq.edu.au.
Dr Sabrina Lenzen, Centre for the Business and Economics of Health
Expertise: health, aged care, ageing, mental health and health service planning.
Contact: s.lenzen@uq.edu.au.
Education
Associate Professor Ian Hardy, School of Education
Expertise: educational policy and politics in relation to schooling and higher education.
Contact: ian.hardy@uq.edu.au.
Small business and innovation
Professor Martie-Louise Verreynne, Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
Expertise: small business management and policy, innovation policy and research translation.
Contact: m.verreynne@business.uq.edu.au.
Social policy and disadvantage
Professor Tim Reddel, Institute for Social Science Research
Expertise: social policy and place-based disadvantage.
Contact: tim.reddel@uq.edu.au.
Environment and climate
Professor Belinda Wade, Chair in Climate Action and Ethical Transitions, UQ Business School
Expertise: the business of decarbonisation, climate transition and sustainability.
Contact: b.wade@business.uq.edu.au.
Professor Matt McDonald, School of Political Science and International Studies
Expertise: climate change policy, foreign and security policy.
Contact: matt.mcdonald@uq.edu.au.
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