Builders and banks eye PPP bonanza CONTRACTORS and financiers such as Leighton Holdings and Macquarie Group are flocking to Queensland as it rolls out billions of dollars worth of controversial public-private partnership deals, including a $300 million-plus project to build 10 new schools -- despite the recent financial collapse of one of the Sunshine State's most prominent PPP infrastructure deals, the $4.8 billion Airport Link. Given the state's debt is projected to hit $82bn in the 2014-15 budget, Treasurer Tim Nicholls described Queensland as "capital constrained" and in need of the private sector's ability to access capital and know-how to deliver much-needed public infrastructure for the fast-growing state.