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OWN GOAL: Queensland’s disastrous Labor Premier is Abbott’s delight
The Liberal National Party in Queensland is having a splendid time dragging back Julia Gillard back into the abyss created by Queensland Premier Anna Bligh.
Bligh drove the ALP off the cliff shortly after the last state election by breaking two specific campaign promises on petrol taxes and privatisation. Both defendable policies but impossible to defend having denied plans to introduce them prior to the poll.
It is just one of many stories around the fracturing of the vote where Nationals are losing one seat each election to rampaging country independents and Labor on the verge of losing a federal lower house seat to a lacklustre Greens party candidate in Melbourne, largely because his opponents have failed to hold him to account for the bizarre policies he promotes.
Many voters distinguish between state and federal issues but as we saw in Victoria in 1990 during a deep recession with the equally disastrous Premier John Cain, sometimes things get so bleak that the whole political brand gets contaminated by association. Labor lost nearly a dozen seats that election, with people like hard-working federal Bendigo MP John Brumby unceremoniously punted.
Premier Bligh is strongly expected to resign – or face a challenge – prior to the next state election but even that is expected unlikely to save the ALP in Queensland after its blatant breach of trust with voters. And it is clear she has been a much bigger figure in causing damage for Labor in Queensland than removing Rudd who had become strongly unpopular himself.
In this taxpayer funded leaflet put out by the LNP Senators in Queensland, it argues “Don’t let Gillard do to Australia what Bligh has done to Queensland.â€
This is clearly a potent weapon and is at the heart of why Labor will inevitably lose a number of seats in Queensland.
Labor sources in the north tell VEXNEWS that they have sensed voters coming back to them a bit in the last few days but there remains significant doubt as to whether it will be enough to save them, even in seats like Brisbane once considered very safe Labor.
Many believe there will be a hung Parliament, with country independents like Bob Katter, Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott in a crucial role.
FRIDAY UPDATE: The LNP isn’t missing Bligh, as today’s full-page ad in the Courier Mail shows.
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Two dud premiers do not make one federal Alp govt.
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Completley correct, two dud premiers mostly affect their states (with some flow on to the commonwealth).
What is scary is the thought of a Gillidud PM being in control and ruining the whole country!
Joan Kirner made Jeff Kennett electable.
Joooolya, I’m hoping, is about to do the same for Tony Abbott.
Never realised how bad Bowen was. Robb is slaughtering him on Lateline.
MR Abbott has great POSITIVE VIEWS ON many things including the lives of all including our future the next generation the wider community the hidden innocent unborn!
Ms Gillard wouldnot be here is she had been aborted simple as that Now her mother was so obviuously pro life about her own daughter now wasnt she!!
now Australia needs to be in a pair of safe hands ALP have had their chance and blown it with wasteful spending. We dont need the white elephant NBN we dont want the internet filter
so the VERDICT is in TONY ABBOTT Fit for government Fit to lead Australia Tony a dedicated Family man good enough for All Aussies. TONY PM for Australias sound future
Less to do with Anna Bligh but more so the fact that Kevin07 was the prime mover in delivering South East QLD for the ALP…which up until 2007 had been an electoral disaster zone for the ALP for 20+ years of federal elections.
It took Kevin to convert QLD sentiment behind the ALP, and thanks to the stupid factional idiots in one fell swoop they have destroyed the QLD goodwill that Kevin delivered and who whilst PM was the only one capable of it.
Instead the ALP is heading for a hammering in SE QLD as embittered QLD swing voters now have a reason to vote down the ALP to avenge the disgraceful and shameful coup organised by factional idiots Arbib and co.
The animosity in the electorate to the Rudd coup is everywhere and the factional brains trust have seriously underestimated the contempt their actions have created.
So as I predicted the Julia experiment has gone horribly wrong, there was no mood for change nor a need to knife the PM….funny how they haven’t moved much for Labor at all since where they were before Kevin was dumped.
last sentence should read “…the polls haven’t changed much for Labor since where they were before Kevin was dumped”
Before we embrace the sexist blame game of pointing the finger at ALP women leaders lets just remember the NSW state government has been in free fall for some time.
Bligh is holding together a tired long-in-the-tooth government and poor Queenslanders have the worst transport and health systems in country due to crazy petrol subsidies etc
Both governments are not positives for the labor vote.
But the biggest negative for Labor vote in QLD is the abrupt removal of RUDD.
No amount of spin cannot correct the wide spread public belief that Kevin was cut down too early.
The dismissal of RUDD is like the premature dismissal of Whitlam but far worse because Labor did in their own.
If labor loses this saturday then Kevin will become the Joan of Arc of the labor cause – a brave fighter who was betrayed and sacrificed by petty cruel warlords.
History will show that it was NOT Kevin who deserted the labor cause.
It was the Shorten-Conroy-Feeny-Arib-led Labor caucus that betrayed labor and paved the way for an Abbott government.
These backroom boys betrayed labor.
If Labor loses this election I hope the ETU and the CFMEU are happy with themselves.I wonder what Norm Gallagher or John Cummins would be thinking if they were alive to see this once proud Union backing the Greens in the Senate. The Greens did not want the Desalination Plant, yet in their magazine they have an article on the comradeship at Wonthaggi. It would be interesting to know how many votes the ETU based their disaffiliation from the ALP on. 86% of how many votes Dean. If Labor wins what next for Dean Mighell – there is always the DLP or the Shooters Party. Remember what comes around goes around.
Gillard has proven she DOESNOT deserve the vote!
Gillard has man axed so many to get to the top Beazley and KRudd!
so now its time to go back to the bottom Gillard
see Gillard is a dunce Krudd should have been left there as PM to take ALP to the polls he deserved another chance Gillard has had hers! She has not delivered!
Gillard and the ALP have so LOST THEIR NERVE the ALP simply couldnt handle a few bad polls so if they couldnt handle a slump in the polls how will ALP ever ever run the country!
No this ALP are a bunch of amateurs cant handle the pressure the economy the home insulation scheme. The ALP are so lazy they run on fear of recycled work choices so cant they do any better than that! ALP ARE simply awful so vote them out Gillard and the ALP have been asleep for three years so wake up Australains before the ALP does even more damage to our economy and our lives We are sick of ALP telling us what to do as they currently dont have enough experience to govern at Federal level!
Wow, that pic of Anna has me channelling Catherine Deveny!
SMILE OF AN AXE MURDERER WITH A BABY EATER’S LAUGH.
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Yes women are the problem, males are much more attractive.
Labor lost not because of Anna Bligh, but because of Shorten and Arbib. They burned up two Labor leaders in two months. They undermined Rudd. They blew Gillard’s campaign.
At least you are closer to the leadership now, Bill.
Well done.
The blame for this election must be laid at the feet of the factional criminals Feeney Shorten Arbib and Conroy
If one does statitiscal analysis the outburts the recriminations by the ALP willl continue
Anna Bligh and Kenneally blame KRudd so see there have been many many outbursts
thats why stable government will be far better served by the Coalition!
So if the independents support Gillard will she last three years? Not likely see Bill the executioner Shorten may form the view her government is off track then we will have Gillard removed!So Australia so needs stabilty not a train wreck that the inept infighting dysfunctional now ALP are!
Gillard couldnot deliver a sound victory so how do we know she will deliver a sound government we have no proof of that!
Gillard is good at springing surprises especially on men she wanted to axe eg Krudd and she did so now Australians should be wary of what comes next from Ms G who is so good at advancing her own self interest and not the national interest!
now enjoy that PM plane Gillard because it wont last long the perks of office may soon evaporate but then again why would that surprise you see you act like you so know everything like your view Krudd was off track may have cost the ALP government but no you wont admit that now would you Miss Gillard!
see pride comes before the fall!
The attempt to define “stable government” as the same party in both Reps and Senate in nonsense. How often has that occurred in our history? Not often. How often have we suffered instability? Rarely. More spinning, spinning, spinning like a Buddhist prayer wheel from the ALP.