Qld election

Like pretty well all recent elections at all levels, it was a matter of which poor choice to vote for. Queenslanders appear to have longer memories than the pollies realise. The "Country Crooks" under their new name of Liberal National Party were sent back to the waiting room. The electors remembered the LNP has a species memory of nepotism, cronyism, graft and corruption, with the ghosts of Bjelke-Petersen, Hinze, Holm, Sparkes, Genrich, Goleby, Lane, Austin, the Thiesses etc. casting their shadow over the party. The public perception of their principal sponsor as a billionaire attempting to buy himself a government didn't help.

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Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Like pretty well all recent elections at all levels, it was a matter of which poor choice to vote for. Queenslanders appear to have longer memories than the pollies realise. The "Country Crooks" under their new name of Liberal National Party were sent back to the waiting room. The electors remembered the LNP has a species memory of nepotism, cronyism, graft and corruption, with the ghosts of Bjelke-Petersen, Hinze, Holm, Sparkes, Genrich, Goleby, Lane, Austin, the Thiesses etc. casting their shadow over the party. The public perception of their principal sponsor as a billionaire attempting to buy himself a government didn't help.

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X 2, I am not an ALP or Lib/Nat supporter but your comments are spot on

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Originally Posted by Ralph1Malph

With no upper house, the opposition is not even needed!:mad::(
Still,

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the electorate has spoken

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as you say, so we have to be happy now with the state of affairs.

Cheers

Ralph

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lol...."spoken!!" it was a " **** storm "...lol

Memories don't seem to be as long as you think Brian with only 20k odd votes between them...

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Australian Labor Party ALP 819,257
LNP LNP 797,519
The Greens GRN 155,798
DS4SEQ DSQ 19,121
Family First Party FFP 15,586
One Nation ONP 7,621
Other Candidates 110,085

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20k.......is 20k......my good freind......:)

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Originally Posted by Outlaw

Memories don't seem to be as long as you think Brian with only 20k odd votes between them...

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And about 10 seats.

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Originally Posted by Outlaw

Memories don't seem to be as long as you think Brian with only 20k odd votes between them...

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To form any government, you only need 51% of the vote in 51% of the seats. A total of 26.01% of the vote.

A woman as premier. Next women will want to drive Land Rovers, and have the right to vote.:D:D:D

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Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

To form any government, you only need 51% of the vote in 51% of the seats. A total of 26.01% of the vote.

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Depends on the number of voters in each electorate, Joh did it with 16%.

well, to my disgust, labour is back in

actually, to my disgust, we still have an elected government in Qld

the same pack of whinging, whining, incompetent cretins who so royally f*****d Qld Health, local government, Queensland Rail, Education Queensland and too many other things to bother mentioning

my local options were:

LNP: 'nuff said
Labor: a burnt out pollie who shouldve taken up something else years ago, god knows he doesnt do **** for the locals in politics
Greens: some ditzy tramp from the gold coast who wouldnt have the faintest idea where her electorate was......

i turned in a blank form....

and Brian, Bjelke-Petersen mightve run a corrupt ship, but at least things got done!