Overall, the budget pledged $119.7 million to the North West Hospital and Health Service, which was responsible for delivering health services to most of Traeger including Mount Isa, Cloncurry and Normanton. This figure was up 4.5 per cent from 2019-20.

A total of $1.097 billion (an increase of 5.7 per cent from 2019-20) was pledged to the Townsville Hospital and Health Service, which delivered services to Charters Towers and surrounding towns including Hughenden and Richmond.

From this pool of money, $3 million was set to go towards a new Satellite Renal Dialysis Unit for four treatment spaces at Charters Towers Hospital, as well as funding for the business case to redevelop the local hospital.

Mr Katter said Labor's funding of the new clinic had been met with great emotion and relief amongst Charters Towers renal patients and their families. The budget commitments came after years of lobbying from the KAP, as well as the local community, and repeated calls to fast-track funding for dialysis services.

"This fight has been going since before I took the seat of Traeger and now the Government has finally recognised the chronic underfunding and critical need, and we are immensely proud to finally deliver these services to critically-ill people who have been forced to travel hundreds of kilometres to and from Townsville for live-saving care," Mr Katter said.

"However, I remain acutely aware of the ongoing need for extra dialysis services in Mount Isa, where there is a shortage of 15 dialysis chairs, and I will continue to do all in my power to extend funding to meet that demand."

More broadly in the budget, the revelation that Queensland's debt was predicted to skyrocket to $130 billion by 2023-24 attracted strong criticism from Mr Katter, who rejected the Government's philosophy to rack up debt for schools and hospitals rather than infrastructure and industry.

"The most significant phrase from the Treasurer was that debt's good if it's used for schools, hospitals and the like, but that's nonsense," Mr Katter said.

"There's a lot of social virtue in spending money on that social infrastructure but it doesn't grow the economy; you need debt to spend on infrastructure where there's a legacy benefit after you build it."

Mr Katter said the agricultural and mining industries had a government blowtorch taken to them during recent years and they were the industries that would lift Queensland out of the coronavirus aftermath.

He said the Government just wanted to throw cash at problems, and that North Queensland would not go forward under this type of budget. The KAP was expecting a much bolder economic plan for Queensland in the next financial year, the Traeger MP said.

"We need Hell's Gates Dam funding, Hughenden dam funding, North Johnstone Transfer funding, and support to build and run ethanol mills," Mr Katter said.

"The budget is big on rhetoric and big on throwing money around but it lacks substance and on-the-ground knowledge from talking to small businesses and industries on the ground who were desperately seeking answers here and they haven't found them."

While he acknowledged Queensland Government funding commitments to dams and energy, Mr Katter said they were only achieved after heavy pressure from the KAP.

"We welcomed the Queensland Government's 2020-21 commitment to invest $3 million in the pre-construction phase of Big Rocks Weir near Charters Towers, and the continued support of both Governments to progress CopperString2.0 to final investment stage next year, but that followed hard lobbying from the KAP to keep the projects on the Government agenda," he said.

Roads and schools projects included in the 2020-21 budget for the Traeger electorate include:

Roads (indicative only): The Department of Transport and Main Roads released a list of 111 projects across the Traeger electorate, including 85 listed as new investments.

The Flinders Highway from Townsville to Charters Towers to Hughenden will undergo works, as well as Gregory Developmental Road, Hervey Range Developmental Road, Burke Developmental Road, Kennedy Developmental Road and Gulf Developmental Road.

Bridges will be strengthened at the Gilbert and Little Rivers on the Gulf Developmental Road between Croydon and Georgetown, and at the Dan Lynch Bridge on the Burke Developmental Road between Cloncurry and Normanton. The Butcher Creek bridge on that road is set to be replaced.

A causeway will be constructed at Kajabbi Road, a stopping bay will be installed on the Kennedy Developmental Road at the Lynd - Hughenden, and pavements will be constructed and floodways built and raised in Doomadgee.

Education: Twenty-one Traeger schools were allocated projects in the 2020-21 budget.

Two Charters Towers schools are set to receive more than $1 million in refurbishments and upgrades, while eight Mount Isa schools will receive $3.2 million in refurbishments, upgrades, a security fence, and an equitable access ramp.

Morning Island State School was allocated $2.7 million for a security fence and $300,000 under the School Infrastructure Enhancement Program.

Maintenance for 37 Traeger schools will receive $1.65 million, while $652,000 will be spent on minor works at 37 schools across the electorate.

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