Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announces a cabinet reshuffle with Deputy Premier Jackie Trad and Tourism Minister Kate Jones. Credit:Felicity Caldwell Treasurer Curtis Pitt will take on Trade and Investment, from Ms Trad, but has lost Sport and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships. Housing and Public Works Minister Mick de Brenni now gets Sport. Mr Furner will be the new Local Government and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships Minister. Glenn Butcher will become the Assistant Minister for Transport and Infrastructure. He was previously the Assistant Minister for Local Government and Infrastructure.

Mr Furner said he was "really privileged" and "extremely humbled" to be elevated to cabinet, following Friday morning's caucus meeting. "I always had aspirations one day, and today I've seen that come to fruition," he said. The reshuffle comes after Mr Hinchliffe's resignation following the release of Phillip Strachan's inquiry into failings at Queensland Rail. The opening of the new Redcliffe Peninsula Line in October revealed a lack of drivers, culture issues and a reluctance to share "bad news" within QR. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said her deputy was the "only person" who could get to the bottom of the issues at Queensland Rail and make sure recommendations were implemented.

"She has determination. She has an aptitude for policy work to get down into the detail and I know that she can fix this," Ms Palaszczuk said. Ms Trad will retain her role as Deputy Premier in addition to her Infrastructure and Planning responsibilities. Ms Trad previously served as transport minister in 2015. She has also served as opposition transport spokeswoman in the past. Ms Jones has also served as the Commonwealth Games Minister in the past, and she will not lose Education or Tourism and Major Events to take on the job. Ms Palaszczuk said there was "extensive lobbying" to get Ms Jones into the job of Commonwealth Games Minister.

"Including Mayor of the Gold Coast, Tom Tate," she said. "I know that she's up to this task. I know the tourism sector has said that she is the best tourism minister that they have seen in this state and from an education perspective, Kate Jones is not just the best education minister the state has ever seen, she's the best education minister that Australia has ever seen." Ms Trad she was under no illusions about the task ahead of her. "I know that there is a lot of work ahead of me, a lot of work ahead of this government, but I am determined to take the railway system, which isn't performing very well right now, to one of the best performing railway systems that Australia has ever seen," Ms Trad said. Ms Trad's first day in the job has already come with challenges, with a Springfield Central to Roma Street train cancelled due to a mechanical issue on Friday morning and a train sent down the wrong line on Thursday night.

"This is a large and complex regional railway network and there will be mechanical faults," Ms Trad said. "There will be issues from time to time and this is not going to be fixed overnight." Ms Trad said since taking up the position of acting Transport Minister earlier this week she had taken at least two meetings with, unions, management and the new QR chair, insisting there was a path to implement every recommendation in the Strachan report. Ms Jones said she was excited to step back into the role as Commonwealth Games Minister. She said she was meeting with Cr Tate and GOLDOC later on Friday.

Full list of appointments Jackie Trad (Member for South Brisbane) Deputy Premier Minister for Transport Minister for Infrastructure and Planning

Curtis Pitt (Member for Mulgrave) Treasurer Minister for Trade and Investment Kate Jones (Member for Ashgrove) Minister for Education

Minister for Tourism, Major Events and the Commonwealth Games Mick de Brenni (Member for Springwood) Minister for Housing and Public Works Minister for Sport Mark Furner (Member for Ferny Grove)

Minister for Local Government Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships Glenn Butcher (Member for Gladstone) Assistant Minister for Transport and Infrastructure For independent news coverage, be sure to follow our Facebook feed.