Earlier this morning, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese gave an unexpected door stop interview from the top of Brisbane’s Mount Coot-Tha Lookout alongside Rebecca Hack, the Labor candidate for Ryan.

Greens MP Elizabeth Watson-Brown sensationally won the seat on Brisbane’s western edge at the last election from Liberal-National Party MP Julian Simmonds. Labor finished third in the primary vote.

Today, Albanese declared Labor had big plans to gain territory in the Sunshine State at the next election.

I’m about us winning seats here in Queensland, including here,” he said. “I’ll be at Forde after this, and I’ll be in Dickson, a little electorate not far from here, which has a very slim margin, tomorrow.”

He then attacked the Greens for delaying the government’s agenda in the Senate.

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“If you’re a progressive person,” Albanese said, “then you’d be pretty disappointed that the Greens have essentially used the power that they have, not to promote positive policies, but to undermine the progressive agenda of the Labor government.”

He said the party had stymied its policies to tackle housing affordability, plan renewable energy and address climate change.

“The people of this electorate know the very real impact of climate change from the increased disasters, including the floods that occurred here.”