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Only another Queensland lockdown will stop the state's premier from travelling to Japan to pitch for the Olympics as tens of thousands sign a petition demanding her trip be refused.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said Australian Olympic Committee president John Coates had made it 'very clear' it would be a 'disaster if the head of Queensland did not go'.
'If we're in a situation where we're in a lockdown I won't be able to attend, but the delegation is the federal sports minister, the premier and the lord mayor,' she said on Tuesday.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said Australian Olympic Committee president John Coates had made it 'very clear' it would be a 'disaster if the head of Queensland did not go'
Ms Palaszczuk said the trip to Toyko would be exclusively to make the pitch for Queensland to host the 2032 Games before she returned for 14 days in hotel quarantine.
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