While Annastacia Palaszczuk has publicly claimed that she won’t do any deals with One Nation, her party is not below pandering to them on policy to win preferences.

A case in point is Labor's recent decision to jump on board One Nation’s policy of banning further gas development in the Cooper Basin in south-west Queensland.

Gas from the Cooper Basin provides the equivalent of 14.5 per cent of the gas demand in Queensland.

One Nation’s policy was widely derided at the time as absurd, and one that would turn up the heat on our energy crisis. Yet the Labor Party conference this year decided for political reasons to adopt the policy as its own.

At the heart of Labor’s backflip is a "pristine rivers" policy, but only for the Cooper Creek catchment, and nowhere else in Queensland. This is expected to effectively ban resource exploration as an unacceptable use of floodplains.