David Crisafulli has been sworn in as the 41st Queensland premier.
This is just the second time the Liberal National Party has been represented.
In a ceremony at Government House on Monday, Crisafulli and his deputy Jarrod Bleijie were sworn in. They were also sworn in as an interim cabinet of two by Governor Jeanette Young.
“What we don’t want to see is the constant changes to government departments that we have seen in recent years. That doesn’t give the stability for the public service. It also creates a situation where there’s no single point of accountability into the long term,” Crisafulli said.
In the weekend election, Crisafulli won over Labor premier Steven Miles.
“The people who you have seen and who have done a really good job will be the people who you see and will be rewarded,” Crisafulli said.
“And just one other thing to clear it up, that senior leadership team that’s done the job and worked really hard will continue to be that senior leadership team, Jared (Bleijie) and David (Janetzski) Ros (Bates) and Dal (Last). You know, they come to they come to they come to it with different perspectives, but they’ve done a really good job, and they’ll remain that senior leadership team. And I don’t think there’ll be too many surprises when the cabinet is announced.”
Crisafulli said his full cabinet is set to be sworn in at the end of the week.
“It will then give ministers the weekend to go to work ahead of the cabinet meeting next week, that’s important,” Crisafulli said.
“There will be a lot of work to do once we get those structures right.”
Crisafulli warned Queenslanders he does not take his new role lightly, saying his focus is on them.
“The position of Premier gives me the ability to do the things that Queenslanders want to see,” Crisafulli said.
“Ultimately, it’s about people. And we campaigned on the issues people told us they wanted us to focus on.
“Youth crime, health, housing and cost of living.
“That will be our big focus in this term of government, to make sure people see improvement across those four issues.
“Our success at the election was built on the back of listening to people about those issues and the responsibility of fixing those things is something we take very seriously.”