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Queensland Premier David Crisafulli has walked back comments making light of a random stabbing attack in Melbourne’s CBD.

Crisafulli appeared at a News Corp event in Brisbane on Friday where he spoke about opportunities for the capital ahead of the 2032 Games.

Asked how he would attract interstate business, he said, unlike in Melbourne, workers “won’t get stabbed – that’s a good start”.

Premier David Crisafulli admits he used a “poor choice of words” at Friday’s event. Credit: Jamila Filippone

But late on Friday, he issued a statement conceding it was a “poor choice of words … and I apologise for any distress”.

Why it matters

The apparently random stabbing on October 2, in which victim Wan Lai suffered a punctured lung, was captured on widely shared CCTV footage that on

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