Queensland stands ready and willing to talk to Google about setting up its Australian headquarters north of the border, should the search giant's Sydney plans fall through.

This week, it was revealed the NSW government had rejected a plan to create a Silicon Valley-style technology hub near Redfern, leaving Google once against searching for an Australian HQ.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says the government would be open to Google, if the company decided to leave Sydney. Credit:AP

The hub, tipped to create 19,000 jobs, would have been Google's new base down under but the NSW cabinet infrastructure committee rejected the proposal because it did not meet a "uniqueness test".

On Wednesday, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said she would welcome the global tech giant if it wanted to set up a Google HQ in the sunshine state but she did not think the company had any plans to move its staff from Sydney to Queensland.