April 1 might be a day to take everything with a grain of salt,but in a state election year,it’s also the last chance for a campaign spending free-for-all (no joke).
It doesn’t take a crystal ball to see the 124-year-old Labor Party is in terminal decline in Queensland and eventually in wider Australia.
There was not a lot of good news for Labor after Saturday’s polls,with major swings to the LNP in two byelections and to the Greens in several Brisbane council wards.
By Monday night,Premier Steven Miles will have lost a seat in parliament,seen another become vulnerable,and been left to decide whether Brisbane can even afford an Olympic stadium.
Voters in the once-safe Labor seats of Inala and Ipswich West have sent the government a strong message ahead of October’s state poll – and it wasn’t positive.
Premier Steven Miles will be watching Saturday’s byelections in Inala and Ipswich West particularly closely after a new opinion poll indicated Labor faced defeat in October.
As all Queenslanders elect councillors and mayors on Saturday,two contests for empty seats in parliament will draw focus for reasons beyond their borders.
The report commissioned by the state government,but never released,also predicted Queen’s Wharf would create an extra 300 problem gamblers in Brisbane.
Yvette D’Ath is the fourth Labor MP to quit or announce her intention to ahead of the vote – a make-or-break one for the third-term team under a new leader.
Four of south-east Queensland’s most experienced mayors are retiring at the election. One,Mark Jamieson,has given a damning critique of Olympic planning.
The October 2024 election looms as the most important in a generation. Annastacia Palaszczuk just allowed the Labor Party to choose a new premier first.