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  1. 23rd March 2009, 09:00 AM #11
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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm View Post
    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.
    X 2, I am not an ALP or Lib/Nat supporter but your comments are spot on
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  3. 23rd March 2009, 09:30 AM #13
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ralph1Malph View Post
    With no upper house, the opposition is not even needed!
    Still,
    the electorate has spoken
    as you say, so we have to be happy now with the state of affairs.

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    lol...."spoken!!" it was a " **** storm "...lol
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    Memories don't seem to be as long as you think Brian with only 20k odd votes between them...

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    20k.......is 20k......my good freind......
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    Quote Originally Posted by Outlaw View Post
    Memories don't seem to be as long as you think Brian with only 20k odd votes between them...
    And about 10 seats.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Outlaw View Post
    Memories don't seem to be as long as you think Brian with only 20k odd votes between them...
    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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    A woman as premier. Next women will want to drive Land Rovers, and have the right to vote.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm View Post
    To form any government, you only need 51% of the vote in 51% of the seats. A total of 26.01% of the vote.
    Depends on the number of voters in each electorate, Joh did it with 16%.
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  10. 23rd March 2009, 12:57 PM #20
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    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!
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