Ben is joined by Dennis Atkins to preview the upcoming Queensland state election.
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Thanks Ben. I like Dennis as he generally gives a fairly balanced and impartial analysis.
I was surprised by his comments that this is going to be a “revenge” election as it feels (with no empirical evidence) to me to be an “Its Time” election (i.e. no hard malice, but you have had your time and now it is time to move over). A common theme I often espouse is most governments have a certain life span and Queenlanders in particular tend to turn hard and fast when they sense it is past their use by date. Both the Beattie / Bligh and the current Labor Government seem to have survived one election too long and thus get really punished hard when they get voted out and I suspect this will be the case this month.
I personally hate the fact that oppositions skate in on negativity. It is easy, especially in this time and age of world wide trends, to paint a negative picture. But I have not heard anything from Crisafulli outlining what he would actually do to address the negative issues. Still that seems to be the way of modern day politics – pump up the disquiet, fear and anger and you just have to adopt magic thinking that somehow the “saviour” will just wave the magic wand and everything will be right again.
The only real interest for me will be to see Labor and The Greens duke it out within Brisbane. As an outsider looking in, it seems as though the Greens have really got Labor spooked across all three levels of government. But do the Greens have that something extra to get them across the line with average Joe / Jill Blow – I don’t think they have reached that point yet.
Neil, I personally found Crisafulli hasn’t embraced most of the ‘negative’ messaging that the LNP as a party appears to campaign on. I got the feeling he is like Chris Minns as Labor leader heading into the 2023 NSW election, keeping a low profile and hoping voters back the party seeking a change of direction.
I do agree with you that Crisafulli and the LNP haven’t really articulated their ideas/proposals unlike Barry O Farrell as Coalition leader heading into the 2011 NSW election where he really focused on major infrastructure developments that the party eventually implemented throughout their 12 years in office.
Ben,
Many thanks Ben. It looks like Queensland is heading in the same direction as that of the NT, when Labor was wiped out in metro Darwin.
Darwin resembles more like the tropical cities such as Cairns, Townsville and Mackay are heading in the same direction as that of what happened in metro Darwin.
And I think that this could be sensed in the 2022 Federal results in Queensland.