Question Time has kicked off for this sitting week, and Opposition Leader David Crisafulli squares up to Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk on the leadership speculation of the past fortnight.
He asks, despite families struggling with bills, the youth crime crisis and issues with the health system, why "the government has been focused on itself?"
"If the Premier can't govern her Ministers how can she govern Queensland?" he asks (borrowing from former Premier Peter Beattie who in turn borrowed from former Prime Minister Bob Hawke)
The Premier uses the question to list what she sees as the government's achievements – focusing on the state's economic recovery post Covid.
"Over the last eight years we have been firmly focused on the people of Queensland," she says.
And she says they have been focused on nothing more than people having "decent jobs".
"We said to the people of the state, you vote for us, you put trust in us, that is what we will deliver," she says.
"And that is what we have delivered. We have the strongest economic growth, we have come out of the pandemic the strongest in the nation."
Another one to the Premier – and Mr Crisafulli points out two weeks of the Premier's own MPs leaking against her to the media, and asks whether she can "continue to provide the stable and steady government" she promised?
Ms Palaszczuk uses this one to go on the attack on the LNP – listing their rollercoaster of past leaders, past PMs and of course their favourite, Campbell Newman.
"It's hard to remember there's been so many of them," she quips – pointing out she has won the past three elections.
– Stephanie Bennett
