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Only $66 million of the Federal Government’s $300 million grant assistance scheme to rebuild after the worst floods in a generation has been claimed by North Queensland farmers.
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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.
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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.
If the minor parties or LNP can block Labor in the north at Queensland’s upcoming election, they could prevent it from holding onto power. ABC election expert Antony Green explains:
To allow for a one-off long weekend, in an otherwise disrupted 2020, the Palaszczuk Government will legislate a new public holiday for 11 council areas.
