It’s game on in the pineapple state, with Anna Bligh facing a resurgent LNP under Campbell Newman. Bligh has entered the campaign encumbered by an ever-expanding list of unfulfilled commitments and policy failures and the formidable “it’s time” factor — but the poll looms as one the most complex and fascinating contests to confront the Australian election watcher since the Pauline Hanson earthquake of 1998.
Crikey’s Queensland election coverage folds together news and analysis from our crack team of experts including William “Poll Bludger” Bowe and Mark Bahnisch.
Queensland to return to the ballot box
Voters in the Sunshine State will return to the polling booth next week to vote in local government elections and, for South Brisbane residents, to choose a successor to Anna Bligh, reports William Bowe.>Read more …
Mackerras: parliamentary representation and the case for reform
I think that the interests of good government are best served by giving the single biggest party a bonus when votes are translated into seats.>Read more …
Queensland lopsided result makes the case for reform
Final figures from Queensland’s electoral commission reveal a massacre of astronomical proportions. But if you look at the vote totals a small element of doubt creeps in.>Read more …
Will there be an interest rate cut?
The expected speculation about an interest rate cut is underway just as my Crikey colleagues predicted it would be.>Read more …
Where Labor went wrong
Crikey readers have their say.>Read more …
