Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk insists a leaked radical draft economic plan is not government policy.
The Liberal National Party has handed out an economic policy document marked as being from the Department of the Premier and Cabinet called the Queensland Economic Action Plan.
Pages are marked "NOT GOVERNMENT POLICY - FOR DISCUSSION ONLY".
A vast number of proposals include increasing the GST to offset the abolishment of payroll tax, taxing congestion, abolishing car registration fees, introducing daylight savings and building a range of transport infrastructure.
Amid sustained attacks from the opposition in question time, Ms Palaszczuk denied ever seeing the document.
"As we canvassed yesterday - (this is) not government policy, clearly written on the top of the document, third line down from memory, not government policy," Ms Palaszczuk told parliament after being asked about the leak.
"I have not seen that document, my cabinet has not seen that document."
But Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg said the 67-page document was marked "cabinet in-confidence", which meant it had been presented to cabinet for discussion.
He said the document had been leaked because public servants were fed up with being asked to come up with ideas for a government which didn't have any.
"This document, Mr Speaker, probably wouldn't have been presented if it had not been leaked to us, but many of those ideas would've been adopted and they would've been wrapped up in spin," Mr Springborg told parliament.
"The challenge is simple - if this is not the premier's plan, what is the government's plan?
"If you don't believe in this then rule the whole lot of it out today."
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