The real deal that Anna was going to make is only starting to surface and what a disaster it would of been.
Queenslanders would of lost big time, Anna what were you thinking.
Palaszczuk and Trad have had a few head clashes lately, wonder if the smiling assassin will take her out come election time.
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has denied backflipping on a royalties deal after cabinet approved a scheme to make Adani to pay every cent on its Carmichael coalmine.
Ministers attended a snap cabinet meeting on Friday and unanimously agreed the Indian mining giant would pay all royalties on its proposed $16 billion mine.
'There will be no royalty holiday for the Adani Carmichael mine,' Ms Palaszczuk said in a statement on Friday.
Addressing the media on Saturday, the premier said her government had worked 'night and day' to finalise the new framework but denied there had been a backflip from a previous deal she had struck with the firm.
Cabinet's approval of the new plan brought a week of warring among Labor factions, which was sparked when details of Ms Palaszczuk's original agreement with the company surfaced.
Under that deal, Adani would have had pay only $2 million a year over the first seven years of the mine's operation.
It could have cost Queensland taxpayers up to $320 million.
The deal led to a backlash within Labor as well as from the federal government and regional councils.
Ms Palaszczuk and Treasurer Curtis Pitt had spent the week devising an alternative plan that would satisfy Adani and Labor's Left faction, led by Deputy Premier Jackie Trad.
At parliament on Saturday, the premier, standing alongside Ms Trad, said the government would squeeze every dollar and job from the project.
'This new framework will ensure that for generations to come, Queenslanders will continue to receive the royalties owed to them, plus interest, to keep building the roads, the hospitals and the schools that families need right across our state,' she said.
'Cabinet worked collectively to come to this conclusion and I'm very pleased with the outcome.
'Over the next few days there are going to be extensive commercial negotiations that will now happen between the state and Adani but let me make it very clear: I am not going to budge from the decision that I have made, that we have made as a cabinet, because this is the best decision for Queenslanders.'
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