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The Queensland Greens claim last year's state election recorded the most unbalanced result in a sample of 132 recent elections in states and provinces across the world. It's a legitimate grievance, writes <b>Charles Richardson</b>.

Electoral imbalance in Queensland: putting votes into perspective

The World Is Not Enough

Jan 15, 2013

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 <b>William Bowe</b>.

Queensland to return to the ballot box

Apr 23, 2012

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.

Mackerras: parliamentary representation and the case for reform

Malcolm Mackerras

Apr 13, 2012

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.

Queensland lopsided result makes the case for reform

Charles Richardson

Apr 05, 2012

The expected speculation about an interest rate cut is underway just as my Crikey colleagues predicted it would be.

Will there be an interest rate cut?

Richard Farmer’s chunky bits

Mar 30, 2012

Crikey readers have their say.

Where Labor went wrong

Comments, corrections, clarifications and cock-ups

Mar 28, 2012

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 <b>Andrew Mcintosh</b>, associate director of the ANU Centre for Climate Law and Policy.

Hail the Bligh government … at least for the environment

Mar 27, 2012

In the aftermath of Queensland -- a place that, like Vietnam or Dresden or Hell, has become an event -- it's worth revisiting a debate that's been going on round Leftish traps, regarding the ALP in power.

Rundle: time to work out what a Labor Party is for

Mar 27, 2012

Crikey readers have their say.

Tawdry and unclean, Labor deserved to lose

Comments, corrections, clarifications and cock-ups

Mar 27, 2012

It's on the non-Labor side that Queensland has always been different.

Queensland election: has the LNP served its purpose?

Charles Richardson

Mar 26, 2012

If the LNP did send out a memo about being gracious in victory, Clive Palmer didn’t get it. <b>Kellie Riordan</b> headed along to Campbell Newman's celebrations.

Inside Can Do’s party: sequins mix with mild applause, no free booze and restraint all round

Mar 26, 2012

Now then, to what happened on Saturday and why. The following list is by no means exhaustive.

Queensland election: what happened on Saturday and why

Mar 26, 2012

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