Quotes from Annastacia Palaszczuk

I now believe Malcolm Turnbull is worse than Tony Abbott.

We have people that live in rural remote communities. They live in Indigenous communities in Queensland up to the Torres Strait and we have an obligation, a duty as a federation to ensure that all of these communities, all of these families have access to health.

It makes you tougher. And when you lose a child, no one can say anything that is ever going to impact you.

Tourism will always survive here in Queensland.

I cannot be any clearer, minority governments don't work.

While I loved aspects of the law, my upbringing had shown me that in politics, you could make policy decisions that actually changed people's lives - so I made my decision, and ran for my father's old seat.

What I have made very clear to my ministers is that I expect them to provide briefings on legislation and any issues pertaining to their electorate. Now I understand some ministerial staffers and offices have gone beyond that and I'll be speaking to my ministers that that will stop.

I was the sort of person who wouldn't just bring one friend home after school, I'd bring half a dozen.

I don't share the same values as One Nation.

But that's what we do in this great nation of ours, we are there to give each other a hand. That's what makes Aussies different to everywhere else in the world.

I think everybody in my government now understands and appreciates that people who work in a whole variety of traditional industries across our state have good, decent jobs.

I have a very clear jobs agenda for Queensland, and I expect everybody to support that jobs agenda.

I wish with all my heart I had children and I think I would've been a good mum.

We made a commitment to the people of this state that we would focus on jobs, health and education. We made a commitment that we would work as hard as we possibly can to make sure that people across our state can get access to employment.

I chair cabinet, we have robust debates during cabinet meetings and we actually come to decisions as a consensus. It's very much people are very passionate about different views and everything, but that's what a cabinet should be like.

This global pandemic isn't just claiming lives directly from the virus - it is taking a massive toll on Queenslander's mental health.

I'm human just like everyone else.