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Tag Archives: Campbell Newman
LNP Debacle: It’s Time For The Liberal Party To Claim Queensland
The cesspool into which Queensland’s LNP has descended is a complex ecosystem; populated by diverse organisms, its murky depths are the backdrop to an unedifying brawl over the spoils of power. There is one solution, and one only: reformation of … Continue reading
To See A One-Term Government, Look North Of The Tweed River
Shenanigans in Queensland in the LNP and its new-ish government are a one-way ticket to oblivion; if nothing changes, Labor is two years from a stunning return to power in the Sunshine State, and the LNP’s antics, left unchecked, cast … Continue reading
67-33 To LNP: Queensland Galaxy Poll Another Portent Of Labor’s Looming Extermination
Just when things couldn’t get much worse for the Labor Party, a new Galaxy poll in Queensland has that state’s LNP government leading the ALP by a 67-33 margin after preferences. This isn’t just any state poll. This is a … Continue reading
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
Council Elections In Brisbane: It’s Quirk By A Landslide
Voters in the City of Brisbane go to the polls tomorrow to elect a Lord Mayor and Council to serve for the next four years; barring any major surprise, incumbent Liberal Lord Mayor Graham Quirk appears set to be re-elected … Continue reading
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Tagged Australian Labor Party, Brisbane City Council, Campbell Newman, Elections, Graham Quirk, Liberal Party, LNP, Lord Mayor, politics, Ray Smith
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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
