Angry Turnbull writes scathing response to state Premier

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has hit back at Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk after she branded him “worse than Tony Abbott” in an interview yesterday.

Turnbull slammed the premier in a post on his Facebook page, writing it was “hard to know” what prompted her “bitter, personal and wildly inaccurate attack” on his leadership.

In the revealing interview with The Sunday Mail, Palaszczuk accused the PM of being a “fly-in, fly-out prime minister who is espousing thought bubbles without any deep policy conversation.”

She said her frustrations with the Federal Government reached a tipping point after Cyclone Debbie and a slanging match with Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce over Category C disaster relief funding.

However, the PM doesn’t appear to be taking the criticism laying down.

“Queenslanders will have been disappointed, but perhaps not surprised, to read Annastacia Palaszczuk’s bitter, personal and wildly inaccurate attack in the Sunday Mail today,” he wrote.

“It’s hard to know what prompted it.

He said the Government was “contributing around 75 percent of the disaster recovery funding” and noted “the Queensland Premier welcomed our help – only a month ago praising me and the Federal Government assistance she received, saying “the level of cooperation is unprecedented.”

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He then went on to list the recent funding he had allocated to the state across a range of areas and said he was looking forward to arriving in North Queensland on Monday to announce new jobs and development in the region.

“Another example, of my Government delivering for Queensland,” he wrote.

What do you think of Turnbull’s comeback? Do you think he’s doing a good job as PM for your state?