Queensland thumbs down Great Keppel Island integrated resort project

The state of Queensland apparently didn’t call the Great Keppel island bluff of Sen. Pauline Hanson.

Early this week, Hanson has dangled her party’s support for a balance of political power in exchange for a license that will see the development of an integrated resort in Great Keppel Island off the Yeppoon coast.

It didn’t take Australian Labour Party too long to turn down Hanson’s offer, according to the Cairn Post.

State Treasurer Curtis Pitt reportedly shrugged off the appeal of Hanson to abandon the government’s plans to grant a new casino license to Cairns saying that the plan to bring two new billion-dollar casinos and integrated resorts to Queensland is final.