Annastacia Palaszczuk and Scott Morrison to talk Olympics bid in their first post-election meeting

Annastacia Palaszczuk will use a meeting with Scott Morrison today — her first with the PM since his May election victory — to discuss a possible Queensland Olympics bid.

ANNASTACIA Palaszczuk will use her first meeting with Prime Minister Scott Morrison since his May election victory to discuss a possible Queensland Olympics bid.

A spokesman for Ms Palaszczuk yesterday confirmed the Premier would be meeting with Mr Morrison today during his Queensland visit.

The spokesman said Ms Palaszczuk was “very much looking forward”’ to the discussion.

It is understood to be one of the only meetings the pair have had together — outside of a COAG meeting — since Mr Morrison took over the top job from former PM Malcolm Turnbull.

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The Courier-Mail understands Ms Palaszczuk will use the opportunity to discuss the Commonwealth’s support not just for an 2032 Olympics bid, but for funding for the Games themselves, as well as the vital infrastructure that will be needed to pull it off.

Ms Palaszczuk is also understood to be planning to talk to Mr Morrison about Queensland’s share of infrastructure funding in general.

Using an Olympics bid to help fast-track critical infrastructure needs in southeast Queensland was at the top of the action plan delivered during The Courier-Mail’s Future Tourism campaign last month.

The Premier last month gave her strongest indication yet that she was considering backing an Olympics bid.

But her sticking point has been how much the Commonwealth is willing to put on the table.

“What we need to see from Canberra is a commitment … that they will back any bid that will be to the same tune as the Sydney 2000 Olympics,” the Premier has previously said.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison. PICTURE CHRIS KIDD

The Commonwealth has committed $10 million towards the preparation of an Olympics bid with Mr Morrison assuring Olympics chief Thomas Bach last month that he was his government would support a bid from southeast Queensland “every step of the way”.

Today’s meeting with the Prime Minister comes ahead of Labor’s annual caucus retreat where the Premier and her Ministers are expected to be subjected to a grilling by the backbench.

MPs will spend today and tomorrow holed up together in the marginal LNP seat of Caloundra — a target seat for Labor ahead next year’s State Election — for the strategy meeting.

The retreats are designed to allow the backbench a space to air concerns and this year, they are understood to be planning to quiz the Premier and her Cabinet on not only the Adani coal mine approvals debacle but also Labor’s poor showing at the Federal Election and what the Government and State Labor are doing to turn things around.