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Rail funds on Qld premier's COAG agenda

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Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk will make a final push for funding for Brisbane's Cross River Rail project when she meets with Malcolm Turnbull as part of the COAG meeting in Hobart.

The Palaszczuk government has clashed with the commonwealth over the national government's refusal to contribute any funds for a second Brisbane River rail crossing.

But Ms Palaszczuk insists they can still reach an agreement before the state budget is handed down next Tuesday.

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"I plan to be raising that issue at length with the prime minister," she told reporters on Thursday before flying out for Friday's COAG meeting.

"And I think there'll be a lot of other states talking about what their key priorities are for their state, and whether or not the federal government is going to work with the states to deliver their key priorities."

Ms Palaszczuk has also pledged to make a strong case at the meeting for her government's target of 50 per cent renewable energy in Queensland by 2030.

The state Labor government on Monday announced a task force had been set up to implement the recommendations of the Finkel review of national electricity generation, which is due to be released during COAG.

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