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Quirk Wins City Hall In Brisbane; ALP Survives South Brisbane By-Election
After yet another trip to the polls today for the good burghers of Brisbane, the Council result went — as expected — to Graham Quirk and the LNP in a landslide; in the by-election to replace Anna Bligh in South … Continue reading
Queensland State Election: Final Wrap
I was waiting until the seats were declared, but recent events delayed this a couple of weeks longer; the historic Queensland state election of 2012 is now concluded, and I wanted to provide some thoughts and comment. Readers will note … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Bligh, Annastacia Palaszczuk, Australian Labor Party, Campbell Brown, Elections, LNP, politics, Queensland, Queensland Politics
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Finally Gone, Yet Finally Listening: Anna Bligh Quits Parliament
Queensland’s Labor government, led by Anna Bligh, was spectacularly obliterated at yesterday’s state election; today, in breach of a promise, Bligh — whilst I was at 40,000 feet, returning to Melbourne — resigned the ALP leadership and with it, her … Continue reading
2012 Queensland Election: Live Updates
From 6.30pm (AEST) on Saturday 24 March, this page will regularly update progress in the state election count with comment on trends, totals and the outcome generally. Readers outside Queensland can follow at 7.30pm local time. To keep up to … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Bligh, Ashgrove, Australian Labor Party, Campbell Newman, Kate Jones, LNP, politics, Queensland, Queensland Politics
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Queensland State Election: Editorial, The Day Before
Queenslanders go to the polls tomorrow, in an historic election set to terminate that state’s 14-year-old Labor government and sweep Campbell Newman’s LNP to office in a landslide. Today I provide an endorsement, and state my reasons for doing so. … Continue reading
Queensland Galaxy Poll: LNP 60%, ALP 40%…Labor Is Finished
The first statewide poll we’ve seen in Queensland for a month is out; Galaxy shows the LNP leading Labor by a 60-40 margin after preferences. This is the first evidence that Anna Bligh’s dirt-and-smear campaign has sealed her government’s fate, … Continue reading
CMC Clears Campbell Newman; Panic Stations At Queensland Labor
And thus, the myth explodes; Queensland’s CMC has exonerated LNP leader Campbell Newman of any misconduct arising from the sordid allegations of the ALP; now, the desperate and doomed Labor government of Anna Bligh must brace for electoral Armageddon. The … Continue reading
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Tagged politics, Australian politics, Australian Labor Party, Queensland, Queensland Politics, LNP, Campbell Newman, Anna Bligh, Ashgrove, CMC, Queensland Labor
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Queensland Election: It’s The Lie That Gets You
In August 1974 — confronted with the choice between resignation from office or certain impeachment and conviction over the Watergate scandal — US President Richard Nixon drily remarked to an aide that it’s not the cover-up, but the lie; it’s … Continue reading
Queensland State Election: Half-Time Home Truths
Halfway through the (official) state election campaign in Queensland, I want to make a few comments on how things are progressing, and I make the observation that for the LNP it’s time to take off the gloves, and to slay … Continue reading
