Queensland election 2020: Palaszczuk pledges budget by Christmas after election win

Queensland Greens federal Senator Larissa Waters says it is time to review Queensland's mining royalties regime.

When questioned how Greens promises could come to reality when the Greens were unable to influence state parliament with two seats and a Labor majority, Ms Waters instead talked about what needed to happen with the state's mining royalties.

"We have had $480 billion of profits exported from the resources sector and they have paid a measly seven per cent in royalties (each year) over the past 10 years," Senator Waters said.

Mining royalties goes to the Queensland Government consolidated revenue to fund large budget expenditure in health, education and public works.

The Greens propose to increase the royalties to increase the share of revenue to schools, public housing, health and education.

"I have absolute confidence that Michael and Amy are going to deliver in spades for their communities and for The Greens," she said.

Labor has claimed a victory against Prime Minister Scott Morrison in the Queensland state election by saying his campaign visit to the state helped his own party lose.

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The swing toward Labor Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk led her federal colleagues to argue they could build on her gains to reverse the battering they took across the state at the last federal election.

But federal Coalition ministers said the state result reflected the advantages of incumbency for all premiers and the lack of personal approval for Liberal National Party leader Deb Frecklington.

Brisbane Times is now calling Clayfield for the LNP, with Tim Nicholls seeing off a surprisingly strong challenge from Labor and the Greens.

Ms Nicholls, a former Treasurer in Campbell Newman's government who led the LNP to defeat in 2017, looked nervous on Saturday night on Channel Nine's coverage of the election, watching strong figures come in from Labor's Philip Anthony.

Mr Anthony was buoyed by preference flows from Greens candidate Andrew Bartlett, who only stepped in after the party ejected its planned Clayfield candidate John Meyer in spectacular fashion.

But Mr Nicholls is now clearly leading the primary vote, making Clayfield a likely LNP retain, which the party will need as it fails to get traction in north Queensland and faces a Labor rear action on the Gold Coast.

New Greens MP Amy MacMahon says she has sympathy with Extinction Rebellion protesters.

"I think regardless of what you think about their particular protest techniques, this is the result of people feeling so frustrated with the political system that doesn't listen to them anymore," she said.

"People only engage in protest and civil disobedience when they are faced with a political system that is no longer meeting their needs and no longer listening to them."

"And we can see the gap that exists between the community and our representatives who just are not moving fast enough on these key issues."

"Regardless of what you think about particular approaches that groups like ER might take, that groups like the [Kangaroo Point] Refugee Protesters might take, the core of the issue is a political system that is no longer listening to people."

As the vote counting continues, some electorates are doing better than others in getting through the ballots.

As at 4pm, Gladstone had just over 80 per cent of its votes counted, with Labor's Glenn Butcher polling strongly and a certainty to retake the seat.

Spare a thought for the people of Bonney, on the northern Gold Coast, where the ECQ lists just 38.5 per cent of the vote as having been counted.

The LNP's Sam O'Conner looks set to retain the seat with over 54 per cent of the primary vote, but there are still a lot of votes to be counted there.