One wine and on with the job: Annastacia Palaszczuk vows to keep borders shut to Sydney and Victoria

Newly-returned Premier will keep Queensland borders closed to Sydney and Victoria until at least December | SEATS STILL IN DOUBT

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk walking her dog Winton in Brisbane on the morning after the state election. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Tertius Pickard

Returned Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk will stick with her plan to keep the state’s borders closed to Sydney and Victoria until at least the start of December.

Ms Palaszczuk said there had been a lot of attacks but she and Queenslanders had “stood strong” and listened to the health advice.

The borders will next be reviewed at the end of the month.

“Yes, that’s exactly what I’ve said to the people of Queensland, I’ve been entirely consistent on this and we will do whatever (Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette) Young says, her health advice to keep Queenslanders safe,” she said.

“I realise there are a lot of people out there who voted Labor for the very first time, who put their trust in me for the very first time, and I want to pay that respect back.

“I know that was a very tough call for a lot of people, but a lot of people stopped me in the street...and they said ‘thank you for keeping us safe’.”

Celebrating last night’s victory, Ms Palaszczuk said she would wait until the Electoral Commission of Queensland had finalised the count before choosing a new Cabinet late next week or early the week after.

“There will not be a swearing in until the declaration of the polls,” she said.

She said she and Treasurer Cameron Dick would deliver a budget in the week beginning November 30, followed by an Estimates process.

“We’ll be hitting the ground running tomorrow morning, we’ll be rolling up our sleeves getting back to work and starting on the budget,” she said.

“I promised Queenslanders I’d deliver a budget before Christmas and if that means working right up until Christmas, we will.”

Ms Palaszczuk confirmed Mr Dick would remain as Treasurer and Steven Miles would stay as Deputy Premier and Health Minister.

Asked whether she would be taking advice for a cabinet reshuffle, Ms Palaszczuk said: “No”.

And Ms Palaszczuk revealed Liberal National Party leader Deb Frecklington had not called her to concede defeat until today, defying convention which suggests the phone call happens on election night.

Ms Palaszczuk thanked her controversial former Deputy Premier Jackie Trad for her service, after she was defeated by the Greens for the seat of South Brisbane.

She said she had not yet called Ms Trad but would today.

The Premier said the result was partly because of the LNP’s decision to preference the Greens ahead of Labor.

“It was a very nasty campaign (in South Brisbane) and at the end of the day, what we’ve seen is Deb Frecklington has delivered a Green member to the parliament,” Ms Palaszczuk said.

The Premier was joined with new Labor MPs including Jason Hunt (who won the LNP seat of Caloundra for Labor for the first time in 116 years), Jimmy Sullivan (who replaces retiring Mines Minister Anthony Lynham in the Brisbane seat of Stafford), Ali King (who won the LNP seat of Pumicestone between Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast) and Jonty Bush (who will replace retiring Tourism Minister Kate Jones in the inner-Brisbane electorate of Cooper).

All four new MPs were asked whether they supported voluntary assisted dying, which Ms Palaszczuk has said will be brought before the parliament in February for legalisation legislation.

All indicated they would vote in favour of the bill.

Mr Hunt gave a particularly personal answer.

“Yes, I’m a very strong advocate for voluntary assisted dying,” Mr Hunt said.

“I’ve lost both my parents, my father would not have accessed that, but my mother would have.”

SEATS STILL IN DOUBT

A 5 per cent statewide swing to Labor has extended the Palaszczuk government’s reign, but the Liberal National Party was also able to improve its primary vote by almost 2 per cent on the 2017 election.

The counting of votes is ongoing, but the numbers so far show the boost to both major parties came from an equivalent drop in primary support for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation.

The minor party, which won more than 13 per cent of the statewide vote in 2017 suffered a 6.8 per cent swing against it this year, polling just 6.9 per cent.

Most of those voters did not turn to the LNP or other minor parties, instead putting their support behind Annastacia Palaszczuk.

The LNP’s primary vote rose to 35.5 per cent, slightly higher than the primary vote that won Labor government in 2017.

But Labor’s vote this year has risen to 40.49 per cent.

Despite picking up another seat, the Greens lost 0.9 per cent of its primary vote, while Katter’s Australian Party grew its vote by 0.3 per cent.

Labor picked up the LNP-held seats of Caloundra and Pumicestone, where the incumbents retired.

The swing in Caloundra has been more than 5.5 per cent to Labor, while in Pumicestone, north of Brisbane, the party’s vote was up about 5.2 per cent.

The other LNP seat to have a retiring MP, Hervey Bay, is likely to fall to Labor.

With 50 per cent of the vote counted, Labor is ahead after a massive swing of about 11 per cent.

Labor also leads in the LNP seats of Nicklin and Bundaberg.

The LNP leads in Burleigh, Chatsworth, Coomera and Glass House.