Palaszczuk reveals internal Labor opposition to her border stance

“I think that probably everybody attacking me, yelling at me, demanding that I do something that I knew was not the right thing to do, and I stood my ground,” she said.

“It was about keeping our border closed and at a time when everyone was demanding it to be open. We could have had what Victoria experienced in terms of a second wave.

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“There were many in my own party that didn’t agree with me. It wasn’t just one side of politics, it was a lot of sides of politics and a lot of people. It was very tough, but I stood my ground.

“I’m not saying there were verbal disagreements, but I know that there were people in the party, in the bureaucracy, right across the board that were concerned by the stand I was taking and the…