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Qld govt publishes ministers' charters

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The Queensland premier's expectations for her ministers have been publicly released.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk's "charter letters" to her frontbench were published on Wednesday in response to a right to information request.

The charter letters set out her government's commitments and priorities and the list of tasks each minister needs to achieve over the first 100 days, each year and the three-year term.

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Ms Palaszczuk is expected to mark her ministers against the expectations set out in the letters every year.

There aren't many surprises as most of the tasks have been previously been announced.

But it appears that Treasurer Curtis Pitt could get a fail mark on one of his key tasks.

He's supposed to convene a ministerial roundtable with all Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Councils and Local Government Association of Queensland within 100 days.

Mr Pitt has until Monday to convene the meeting, but there's been no notification that it will actually be going ahead.

Health Minister Cameron Dick is expected to rebuild the state's health workforce, but his letter makes no mention of Labor's election commitment to specifically employ an extra 400 nurses over the next three years.

In contrast, Education Minister Kate Jones' letter clearly sets out her obligation to fulfil Labor's pledge to hire an additional 2500 extra teachers.

Another surprise is Deputy Premier and Transport Minister Jackie Trad's task of creating an alternative to the Liberal National Party's Tertiary Transport Concession Card, so students don't need to carry the card to get a concessional fare.

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Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg said former Liberal National Party government ministers had received their charter letters a week into the job.

"This is all fluff, there is no clear plan in these letters," Mr Springborg said.

"They've been cobbled together after three months in government."

Mr Springborg said the only reason the letters were sent out was because media organisations were enquiring about them.

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