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Blacks Beach Mackay: The schools included Blacks Beach in Mackay, Burdell in Townsville, Caloundra South, and Yarrabilba and New Beith in Logan, the treasury officials' emails revealed, according to Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Correspondence between treasury officials, obtained under Right to Information laws, warned in order to deliver the new schools and fund maintenance, there needed to be a massive injection of funding. Projected growth in student population 2011 - 2031Area Extra students Percentage increase Ipswich Qld Schools Planning Commission The ABC can reveal that just before its election defeat, the Liberal National Party was planning to announce five new primary schools. Under treasurer Mark Gray and assistant under treasurers John O'Connell and Leigh Pickering discussed the cost of the capital works program in February when uncertainty swirled around who would govern Queensland. "There is ... a growing backlog maintenance liability and asset renewal shortfall that requires immediate attention," Mr O'Connell wrote. "Recent estimates indicate an additional funding requirement of approximately $1 billion to 2021." The treasury officials also discussed where the five new schools had been planned as well as the need to expand existing schools. "Based on population growth projections, there is also a requirement for an additional 1,300 state school classrooms, including in five new schools by 2021," Mr O'Connell wrote. It is a problem now in the lap of Labor Education Minister Kate Jones, as the new government will not proceed with the LNP asset leasing program. "What I discovered when I became the Minister for Education is that there is a black hole for building schools for the future," she said. "I give this commitment, as we have always done, we will continue to deliver the classrooms and the schools needed for growth." Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the matter would be discussed in coming weeks. "I know that an issue that Minister Jones has been raising with me and that will be all part of the budget deliberations," she said. The LNP had planned to pay for the new schools and the maintenance backlog using money raised through its Strong Choices asset leasing program. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.