Queensland accused of breaking ‘no public funds for Adani’ promise

Activists target Aurizon after Palaszczuk refuses to rule out vetoing freight company's application for Naif funding to build rail line

The former Queensland state-owned freight rail business Aurizon is the latest target of anti-Adani activists, after the Palaszczuk Labor government refused to rule out vetoing the company's taxpayer-funded loan to build the Galilee basin rail line.

Opponents of the mine have accused the state government of attempting to break its promise of "no public funds for Adani' through a "backdoor" by continuing to consider Aurizon's application for federal government funds to build the central Queensland rail line.