Ms Palaszczuk, has obviously looked at the federal election results and seen a probable electoral wipe out at the state election next year and has backflipped like an acrobat.

From stonewalling the mine and ignoring any requests from Adani, suddenly Ms Palaszczuk is clearing away any obstacles and pretending that she never had anything to do with the obstruction in the first place.

"Adani could start building its controversial coal mine in just three weeks, after besieged Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk declared she’d had a “gutful” of delays in her own government’s approvals of the project.

Ms Palaszczuk today said there had been a “breakthrough” in the impasse over Adani, declaring in Cairns that the deadline for a decision on Adani’s management plan for the endangered black-throated finch was May 31, while the decision on the company’s groundwater strategy would occur on June 13. If both plans are signed off on by Queensland government officials, the company expects it will be able to break ground on the proposed Carmichael coal mine in central Queensland in as few as three weeks."

While this backflip will do something to mitigate the damage, labor must desperately hope that they don't have long memories.

If there was a Qld election right now, Labor would be back to the basketball team they were when Palaszczuk, got the nod as opposition leader. Obviously Labor were amazed when the Libs lost the next election, & pretty disappointed to be stuck with her as premier.

The girls club now in power have been Labors ball & chain for quite a while now. She is even worse than Anna Bligh, which is saying a lot. What is it with these Labor ladies, that they are so incompetent. It definitely must take entirely different skills to get to the top in the Labor Party, than it does to do anything useful.

What Annastacia Palaszczuk is doing is asking
for the two parties - Adani and the independent
regulator (DES - Department of Environment and
Science) to sit down with the Coordinator General
and work out a time frame and make decisions around
the reports they currently have.

She is asking for some certainty and some time frames.

The state needs some certainty. The stalling by Adani
has gone on long enough.

The Premier is fed up with the delays and so are
Queenslanders.

This is a positive step on behalf of the Premier.
Enough is enough with delaying tactics.

Of course this can also be looked at as just simply
another process.

We'll have to wait and see what the results (if any)
will be.

Foxy,

"The state needs some certainty. The stalling by Adani has gone on long enough"

Have you been smoking your socks? There is absolutely no doubt that the obstacles and stalling has entirely been on the part of the state.

Hopefully construction at Adani that has been blocked by Jacki Trad's antics will now start within weeks.

I heard someone on the ABC who was a proponent of Adani thanking Bob Brown for doing in a week what he (the proponent) hadn't been able to do in years. The Greens still business should be locking Brown up somewhere, given his help in getting the LNP returned to government.

Paul Murray in 'The West Australian' wonders if it is time to ditch polls if if they keep getting it wrong - which they do, so the answer is 'yes'.

Fifty-odd :Newspolls meant "nothing".

But, as he reminds us, these "meaningless" polls were used to dump two LNP PM'S in short order.

The media needs to review its "heavy use of polls", thinks Murray; but why should the rest of us care when it it is so much fun to see the know-alls made a fool of. The lazy buggers were using a lot of data pertinent to Turnbull's reign. Had Turnbull still been PM, the predictions of a Labor landslide might have been correct.