Courier Mail, Brisbane ^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 Annastacia Palaszczuk 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 Cameron Dick 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, Queensland’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 Jackie Trad 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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