Federal Budget: Hey Joe, can you give Queensland a hand?

By Tony Moore and Cameron Atfield
Updated May 8 2015 - 1:15pm, first published 12:14pm
Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Treasurer Joe Hockey arrive for question time at Parliament House in Canberra. Photo: Andrew Meares
Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Treasurer Joe Hockey arrive for question time at Parliament House in Canberra. Photo: Andrew Meares
Queensland opposition treasury spokesman John-Paul Langbroek. Photo: Glenn Hunt
Queensland opposition treasury spokesman John-Paul Langbroek. Photo: Glenn Hunt
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk. Photo: Robert Shakespeare
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk. Photo: Robert Shakespeare

Business groups say the federal government cannot afford another year of "reform gridlock", while local governments want $40 million in local disaster relief funding immediately and for no changes to disaster relief funding ratios in federal Treasurer Joe Hockey's second budget next Tuesday.

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