It was snowing purple jacarandas behind David Crisafulli as the Queensland premier stood before a media pack on Friday, fending off suggestions that his cabinet was in disarray as one of his ministers quit the frontbench after months of pressure.
The mood was serious and sombre, a markedly different tone to the rest of the week as the premier went on a statewide media blitz to mark the halfway point of his first term, and two years since the Liberal National Party ended almost a decade of Labor rule.
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