Courier Mail, ^isentia 28 May 2019, by Jessica Marszalek And Steven Wardill

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Trad blamed for losses Labor ministers accused of undermining deputy

JESSICA MARSZALEK ier through thick and thin”. STEVEN WARDILL is an­ Ms Trad is acting premier other. “He needs to hurt her SENIOR Palaszczuk Govern­ until tomorrow while Premier before he can get to where he ment minister Annastacia Palaszczuk is on a wants to get to.” is being accused by colleagues trade mission to Japan. Left faction figures said An­ of being the architect of div­ Mr Dick has long been thony Lynham and Stirling ision within the administration touted as a future Labor leader, Hinchliffe - ministers who are amid fallout from Labor’s including during the dark both members of Mr Dick’s federal election drubbing. days of the Bligh government. Right faction - had last week Mr Dick, ’s in­ However, the Left faction frastructure and state develop­ currently controls the numbers made unsolicited calls to dis­ gruntled backbenchers. ment minister, is being blamed within caucus. for whipping up a push to top- According to insiders, the "The narrative that Labor pair argued that Ms Trad was, //V\^ple after his Right lost because of Jackie Trad is in part, to blame for Labor’s faction spear carriers spent the ridiculous, but I think they’re collapse in regional Queens­ weekend backgrounding doing^nndjoh of getting that land and that the Government against the Deputy Premier upXonc~MEJ%aid of her de- AflLjieeded to change direction. and Left faction leader. tracTOTsT'Tdo think the Right '/ ...... Ms Trad ...... last week...... fendedfenc But a senior Right source are using it as a way to dust up off “ridiculous” suggestions she said the claim was “categori­ Jackie,” another said. could be after Ms Palaszczuk’s cally untrue” and that “the “Annastacia Palaszczuk job, her supporters describing only conversations have been his main impediment,” ^leMPy the pair as fiercely loyal to one that everyone needs to support said of Mr Dick’s leadership another. the Premier and Deputy Prem- ambitions. “Trad’s loyalty to

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