At the end of the parliamentary sitting earlier this month, a senior Queensland minister privately conceded to this masthead it was the first time they had felt the immense pressure and difficulty behind the job of leading the state.

As the fallout of the IT bungle within the child safety department continued to unravel and the LNP was caught celebrating an overstated reduction in victim numbers, the minister opined it would only get harder as the gravity of their own policy decisions played out.

And, in only the fortnight since, play out they have.

This sitting week marked the first since the weekend one-year anniversary of the election which handed the LNP enough seats to take the seats on the government side of the house, and it had a big ticket item to tick off.

The government

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