
Whichever way you slice it, the poll remains Labor's to lose
Just over a day before the voting comes to an end, this election is back where it began: it’s one that Labor can lose rather than a contest where the LNP is looking like a winner.
Just over a day before the voting comes to an end, this election is back where it began: it’s one that Labor can lose rather than a contest where the LNP is looking like a winner.
Annastacia Palaszczuk is rounding the home turn of this election with two messages and no sign she’ll deviate from them.
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Veteran election watcher Malcolm Mackerras, now retired from the field of observation, famously remarked that Australian political history has shown a party always loses the election after the one it wins but should have lost.
The numbers confirm we’re having an election like no other with about 600,000 Queenslanders voting during the first six days that booths have been open and almost 900,000 postal vote applications received and processed.
The idea of a youth curfew for teens and preteens in Townsville is so old it would escape the net being cast by the LNP in its highest-profile election pitch this penultimate week.
Deputy Premier, Health Minister and LNP-bête noire Steven Miles is playing pandemic politics by telling people it’s against official advice to delay voting until Saturday week.