Speaking in the Labor-held seat of Mackay,where local MP Julieanne Gilbert enjoys a margin of 6.72 per cent,Miles said the polling was a reality check for his government.
“This confirms what we’ve known for some time that the most likely outcome in October is that David Crisafulli will be the new premier,” he said.
“That’s about six months away and he still has not detailed a single actual plan for our state.”
Miles,who has only been in the job for four months,evoked memories of the Newman government,which sacked 14,000 public servants,prompting years ofmass street protests.
“I know[Crisafulli] wants to be a small target. I know he wants to stay as tiny as he can,so that Queenslanders don’t know what his plans are,” he said.
“We know that because that’s what they did in 2012. They hid their plans in 2012. They took a small target strategy in 2012 and then,of course,when they got elected,we found out that their debt reduction plan made cuts to nurses at the Mackay base hospital,it meant cuts to police right across the state.
“It meant cuts to services. That’s what a debt reduction plan is.