It is difficult to tell how the Beattie/Bligh Labor government will be judged but, when the history is written, special mention should be made of their achievements in protecting Queensland’s woodlands, writes Andrew Mcintosh, associate director of the ANU Centre for Climate Law and Policy.
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QUEENSLAND LABOR
Qld Labor ends electoral arms-race — just when the LNP benefits
Queensland Labor enters the 2012 election without one of its key campaigning tools of recent years. The party’s success has been built on massively outspending its opponents. New laws bring that to an end just when the tables were turned.
READ MOREPoll Bludger: double whammy for major parties in Qld
Under normal circumstances, the only point at issue in the upcoming Queensland election would be the precise scale of the impending conservative landslide.
READ MORERundle: crazy Katter’s cut-price, fried policy chain
Bob Katter stood up on Friday and spoke for those sidelined, excluded and marginalised from politics, the real Australians who work hard and pay their taxes, and don’t ask for more than a fair shake. Good luck to him.
READ MOREBenjamin Law: the Passion of the Campbell
Campbell Newman has become the phantom menace of Queensland parliament, says Benjamin Law, the unseen Sith Lord pulling the strings from behind the curtain. He’s already riding high in the polls, but the policy cupboard is bare.
READ MOREPineapple Party Time QLD election wrap
What we had expected would be a long night was over in a flash, writes Mark Bahnisch.
READ MOREA Queensland election is imminent
Crikey can now confirm that the “imminent election” in Queensland may in fact be imminent, writes Mark Bahnisch.
READ MORELabor Party losing plenty as Allco teeters
The dark clouds hanging over the indefinitely suspended Allco Finance Group are concerning plenty of financial players, but the beancounters inside the Queensland Labor Party must also be disappointed, writes Stephen Mayne.
READ MOREBahnisch: ALP not out of the hunt in Dawson
Queensland is Australia’s most decentralised state in population terms, and unsurprisingly, local and regional factors feature strongly outside the capital. So it would be quite wrong to read off polls taken in Brisbane and assume any sort of uniform swing, writes Mark Bahnisch.
READ MOREQueensland preference negotiations reveal the state of play
There are important implications of the number and range of seats in play in the House of Representatives contest for decisions about the allocation of preferences in the Senate, writes Mark Bahnisch.
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