Brisbane City Council, objects to ratepayers paying $3.2 million, to buy six hectares of state-owned land to protect threatened koalas in Brisbane's south.
The council argues the Queensland government should itself keep the remnant bushland near Toohey State Forest near Nathan as koala habitat, or gift it to the council.
But the state government argued the council wrote to State Development Minister Cameron Dick on February 26 and offered to buy the land at a concessional price.