A state premier has reflected on his first 12 months in the top job as his government hatches a plan to capitalise on Australia's critical minerals pact with the US.
David Crisafulli steered Queensland's Liberal National Party back to power on October 26, 2024 after more than nine years in the political wilderness.
His government has since passed laws to sentence children as adults for serious crimes, talked tough on the CFMEU and backflipped on a pre-election promise not to build a new stadium for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics.
Queenslanders would ultimately be the judge of what the government has done right and wrong over the past year, Mr Crisafulli said.
But he argued most people thought the state was headed in a positive direction.
"We're doing what we said we were going to do," the premier told reporters in Petrie on Sunday.
BHP has warned mining jobs could be on the chopping block if the Queensland government refuses to tackle its unsustainable coal royalties regime.
Mr Crisafulli has refused to change the scheme, introduced under the previous Labor state government, but insists BHP remains "long-term friends" of the state.
He said Queensland remains open for business to miners and hailed the critical minerals deal signed by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and US President Donald Trump as a "once in a generation opportunity that only Queensland can fill".
"We will be shortly releasing our plan to make sure we don't just get our fair share but a little bit more," Mr Crisafulli said.
"If you look at the known critical minerals, there are many of those components that Queensland has the lion's share of."
Defeated Labor leader Steven Miles said he had spent his first year in opposition listening to Queenslanders, disputing the state was on the up and decrying a "litany of failures".
He suggested the cost of "everything has just kept going up", including government fees and charges and rents.
Mr Miles said it was "pretty telling" Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie was still attacking Labor after labelling his Labor rivals an "incompetent mob".
"That's because they don't have a record to speak of," Mr Miles said.
"On every important issue, Queenslanders tell me it's getting worse."
