The thatched roof was the giveaway. Credit:Twitter And a short time later, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk stood up to address the insult - except not with the response the LNP would have hoped for. "I noticed that the Queensland opposition media put out a beautiful photo today talking about infrastructure in regional Queensland," Ms Palaszczuk said. "I had a look at the photo. It has a lovely little farmhouse. "As I looked closer, it has a thatched roof.

"There are some greenfields and some bitumen there, but the thatched roof really got me thinking. "Where do we have thatched roofs? Do we have them in Winton? Do we have them in Cairns? Do we have them in Rockhampton? Where is this thatched roof? "Let me table it for the benefit of the opposition, because it is from a website that is in Slovenia." Health Minister Cameron Dick took the opportunity to continue the theme a few minutes later: "Before I go on, I will make it clear that today I will be talking about Queensland and not Slovenia."

"Slovenia is about 20,000 square metres and Queensland is 90 times the size of Slovenia. I can assure honourable members that all of our healthcare facilities and clinics have proper roofs and they are not thatched, which is very important for proper healthcare and infection prevention standards," Mr Dick said. However, Ms Palaszczuk later corrected the record. "In relation to the photo I referred to earlier, I inadvertently said it was from Slovenia. It was actually from Slovakia," she said. Mr Dick cheekily rose on a matter of privilege: "Insofar as I referred to Slovenia and not Slovakia, I apologise. I apologise to the people of the Republic of Slovakia." The opposition media Twitter account claimed the error as a victory in a subsequent tweet.

The image appears to be from a blog about a "retirement trip from France to the Black Sea", posted in May 2015. Former ABC breakfast radio host Spencer Howson even got in on the action, tweeting a photo of a rusty train. Speaking to reporters, Opposition Leader Tim Nicholls said the tweet got people talking about regional Queensland.

"What it's done is it's highlighted the state of roads in rural and regional Queensland," Mr Nicholls said. "We're highlighting the issue in regional Queensland and if it takes a picture from Slovakia to make the comparison about what it's like for them all the better for it. "We see people hanging off the Bombay Express to make the case about train overcrowding. "It's just a tweet, it's gone out there and I think we can laugh about it and say what's the serious issue that sits behind it." Later, Ms Palaszczuk said the tweet demonstrated the LNP was out of touch with regional Queensland.

"Next time they should check their pictures first before they post them online," she said.