Thread: Queensland election, who will win??

After giving us the fluoride we needed to have I've got a nasty feeling the next thing they'll foist on us is daylight saving time. Vegetation laws will be tightened to a death grip around the throats of farmers and sawmillers. Registration will almost certainly go up for 6 & 8 cylinder cars. For those of us living outside Brisbane I think it's time to get the Vaseline ready.

I know I'm going to wake up tomorrow to a smiling politicianess telling me how grateful she is to the people of Queensland for electing her incompetenceness for another term.
And how humble she is at the people's confidence in her administration. Etc etc.
And how responsive she will be to the people's concerns about her previous administration. Etc etc.

And then they'll get on with it. The incompetence, the holidays abroad, the incompetence, the incompetence, and the incompetence. And the holidays abroad.
Aint it wonderful to be a politician?

Michael

A result no one predicted..

However you get the government you deserve..

Well the whole god damned fiasco was an appalling waster of time and money. Townsville is 20 odd hours drive from Brisbane.
Now that we've had regional council amalgamations, let's amalgamate the State gov into the regional councils as well.

It will be interesting who the next leader of the LNP will be...They need someone who is like Rudd....The federal Labor party was considered a joke until Rudd came to power...One person changed their entire outlook and they stormed to victory, even though the workings of the party had not changed..

The next three years will be very hard for Queensland, there is no way in hell bligh will create 100 000 new jobs..unemployment is expected to reach near 10%..The LNP probably will think the result was a blessing in disguise, I don't think any political party would want to be in power at the moment, when the recession really does start to hit that is when opinion polls will start to change...

Queenslanders are not stupid, hard times are indeed coming.

When voters know tough times are coming they always vote in the Labour Party, as they are percieved as giving the best help in tough times, when times are good the conservatives will be voted back in.

Anyone who thought that anything different would happen has not looked at Australian political history.

Originally Posted by Cruzi

Queenslanders are not stupid,

I disagree with that..stupid may not be the correct word..maybe unknowingly selfish or ignorant is a better phrase...

Australians have a history of voting for idiots....Howard should never have lasted as long as he did...He started off well and ended up the same as queensland labor..

This may be a little OT, but I think these times highlight the problems with partisan politics.

The Opposition should stop being just that and start working with the ruling parties in order to help lessen any impact the current crisis has.

This also means that the ruling parties should also be willing to work with the opposition parties.

One-eyed political bias has a special home in Queensland, but its not about getting power (well, it shouldn't be) but about doing whats best for the Country/State.

In the lead-up to the election, I didn't hear from one Queenslander who was going to vote for Labor (and I communicate with quite a few), yet they got in. How come?

Because the Gerrymander that allowed the National Party to rule the state with 30% of the vote has long been abolished and the majority of Queenslanders (albeit a small majority) voted Labour in.

Originally Posted by Cruzi

When voters know tough times are coming they always vote in the Labour Party, as they are percieved as giving the best help in tough times, when times are good the conservatives will be voted back in.

that's a matter of opinion.

Which, to take your idea, is why Dudd is doing such a good job now? Instead of trying to talk things up, he wheels out the cart and calls out, "Lay out your dead, lay out your dead!"



I agree and concur with AlexS' post.

Originally Posted by Cruzi

Because the Gerrymander that allowed the National Party to rule the state with 30% of the vote has long been abolished and the majority of Queenslanders (albeit a small majority) voted Labour in.

Each political party has always moved the Electrol boundaries, Ahern did it, Goss did it, Beatie did it - they all do it. (if it's my fotre, why did I mention Ahern? )

Originally Posted by Cruzi

Because the Gerrymander that allowed the National Party to rule the state with 30% of the vote has long been abolished and the majority of Queenslanders (albeit a small majority) voted Labour in.

Actually it is interesting..

At the moment Labor have got 42.7% of the vote which gives them maybe 50-53 seats
LNP 41.1% which gives them 32 to 35 seats
Greens got 8.2% but no seats
Independant got 8% with four seats..

Not a lot of difference between labour and the lnp but a big difference between seat counts.. Sort of like a jerrymander in itself..

I am guessing that Labor will end up holding no seats outside a major regional or city area..So Labor effectively won by keeping the urban voters happy and the LNP failed by not looking like a credible alternative to urban voters...

Come next election I cannot see the LNP losing any support in the seats they have now..Leopards do not change their spots and Labor will be feeling pretty smug at the moment so not a lot will change in the next two and half years.. If the LNP get a credible leader at the next election they will probably get in, however the problem will be this..In two and a half years time the recession/depression we will have will probably be just about over but the state will be in a lot of debt, and I mean a lot and cuts will have to be made, no doubt drastic cuts like Jeff Kennett did to victoria. The life of a political party who will be forced to make the cuts will be short... Australians do not seem to like to be told they cannot have something or have been living beyound their means...Living beyound our means is the reason why the recession is about to start..

The next few years will be interesting but painful...

lets face it despite the recession after 15 years of labour government there will be a huge debt to pay back. they will just get it all payed back and be running in surplus and labour will get back in and spend it all.