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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...
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Election Pendulum — 2012 Queensland State Election Results
I have compiled a preliminary pendulum for the recent Queensland state election; I have no idea what this will look like until I hit “post”! Suffice to say, I’m still learning the functionalities of...
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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...
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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...
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67-33 To LNP: Queensland Galaxy Poll Another Portent Of Labor’s Looming...
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...
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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...
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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...
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Cornered: Embattled ex-LNP MP Quits Queensland Parliament
THE RESIGNATION of former state LNP MP Scott Driscoll from his seat of Redcliffe is a welcome development in a saga that has dragged on for too long; faced with expulsion from Parliament and a...
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Petulant Boor: Palmer Flirts With Oblivion In Queensland
IF CLIVE PALMER or his Palmer United Party henchmen ever win government in the Sunshine State, Queenslanders should run like hell to escape across the border as if something fat and nasty is after...
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Queensland: Flegg Disendorsement Right Call By LNP
THE DECISION THIS AFTERNOON by the LNP hierarchy in Queensland not to endorse sitting Moggill MP Bruce Flegg for the imminent state election is absolutely the correct call; Flegg — a veteran candidate...
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