South Brisbane Greens candidate Amy MacMahon. (Photo: ABC)

Campaign Diary

Greens eyeing inner-city seats, but is it with rose-coloured glasses?

The Greens party traditionally talks up its chances before every election, so boasts of winning four inner-Brisbane seats are not surprising.

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Battle for Townsville starting to sound like deja vu all over again

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.

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Voting early and often, but it ain’t over until it’s over

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.

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Curfew policy was around before many of these offenders were even born

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.

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Is Labor's attack dog off the leash or just barking up the wrong tree?

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.