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Puns, pumpkins and the cocked snook we didn t hear about in estimates
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Puns, pumpkins and the cocked snook we didn t hear about in estimates
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Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk brought a pumpkin to estimates.
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Cocking a snook
New Labor MP Robert Skelton was asked to apologise after an unparliamentary gesture during estimates.
The member for Nicklin put his thumb on his nose, held his palm open and perpendicular to the face and wiggled his fingers.
The derisive action is officially known as cocking a snook and LNP member for Burnett Stephen Bennett suggested Mr Skelton grows up .