Annastacia Palaszczuk's new cabinet has been officially sworn in, but the Queensland premier's team is already under fire from one of Labor's biggest union backers.
CFMEU Queensland branch secretary Michael Ravbar says some of the new ministers had failed in their previous positions and "unbelievably" had been allowed to stay on, but did not single out individuals.
"The premier must have kept these individuals and their portfolios based on friendship and/or loyalty because it would not be based on performance," he said in a statement on Tuesday.
The statement was released minutes before Labor's new ministry was sworn in at Government House.
The ceremony itself ran smoothly, with the premier and her ministers all swearing their oaths before retiring outside for official photographs.
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Ms Palaszczuk was sworn in as Premier and Trade Minister, while her Deputy Jackie Trad was also made Treasurer as announced on the weekend.
Cameron Dick is the new State Development Minister and Kate Jones rounds out the group of senior economic ministers by adding Innovation to her Tourism and Commonwealth Games portfolios.
Ms Palaszczuk's first official act as the re-elected premier of Queensland is expected to be the vetoing of the Commonwealth's loan to Indian mining giant Adani.
On Friday, after giving her victory speech following the official result a fortnight after polling day, Ms Palaszczuk said the first thing she would do after being sworn in would be to make good on her promise.
The premier's office on Tuesday confirmed to AAP a letter has already been drafted to be sent to the federal government as soon as the new government is officially in place.
Ms Palaszczuk announced the loan veto at the end of the first week of the election campaign, which saw anti-Adani protesters shadow her every move on the campaign trail.
She initially claimed she was vetoing the loan to avoid conflict of interest claims against her partner Shaun Drabsch, who had done consultancy work for the company through his firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.
However, she subsequently pivoted to claim vetoing the loan had always been the policy of the party.
The decision to veto the loan for a rail line connecting the Carmichael coal mine to the Abbot Point coal terminal has been criticised by the federal coalition government, which says it will put the entire multi-billion dollar project in jeopardy.
However, Ms Palaszczuk says Adani has assured her it can fund the rail line itself through other means if necessary.
