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Queensland Resources Council launches campaign against royalty hikes, angering premier

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says she is "angry" and "disappointed" at the Queensland Resources Council over an expensive advertising campaign against coal royalty hikes, and won't attend a QRC lunch on Wednesday.

Ms Palaszczuk said the QRC's member-funded campaign against the government's June coal royalty hikes would amount to $40 million; QRC chief executive Ian Macfarlane on Tuesday said the campaign did not have a set price tag.

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