Qld to accept 3500 more refugees

Queensland's government is willing to provide homes for another 3500 refugees from Syria and Iraq.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says the sunshine state will welcome 29 per cent of the 12,000 additional Middle East refugees the federal government announced it would resettle earlier this year.

"I have no doubt Queenslanders will open our hearts to our newest arrivals," she told parliament.