Queensland Election
March 22nd, 2009 at 1:50 pm by David FarrarLabor’s string of victories in Queensland continues. Anna Bligh has won them a fifth consecutive term.
Despite polls showing Labor behind, they have lost only 6 seats so far with 70% of the vote counted. Their electoral system has helped them as they are only 1.6% ahead on the primary vote.
Labor look to have 53 out of 89 seats. They had a majority of 34 and it has dropped to 19 – still pretty comfortable.
Labour have ruled for all bar one period since Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s 19 year resign. The Nationals won all eleven election from 1957 to 1986. Sir Joh was then forced out of office and the recent elections have been:
1986 Nat/Lib 59 to Lab 30
1989 Lab 54 to Nat/Lib 35
1992 Lab 54 to Nat/Lib 35
1995 Lab 45 to Nat/Lib 43 + 1 Ind. A by-election saw power transfer to Nat/Lib
1998 Lab 44 to Nat/Lib 32 and One Nation 11 (plus 2 Inds)
2001 Lab 66 to Nat/Lib 15 (One Nation 3 and 5 Inds)
2004 Lab 63 to Nat/Lib 20 (One Nation 1 and 5 Inds)
2006 Lab 59 to Nat/Lib 25 (One Nation 1 and 4 Inds)
2009 Lab 53 to Nat/Lib 32 (4 Inds)
On the positive side, Pauline Hanson got only 22% of the vote, and has retired from politics.
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March 22nd, 2009 at 1:57 pm
So Hanson got 22% of the votes and did not get a seat?, I take it Queensland do not have proportional representation.
Funny that you don’t hear the left moaning about PR when they win elections.
Vote:March 22nd, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Dime is currently on the Gold Coast.. I had to buy a Melbourne paper today cause i cant stand the idea of Labour winning anything and the pictures of her smiling face was sending me over the edge!
Their campaign was painful, i watched maybe 30 mins of tv a day while here, every second ad was a Labour attack ad .. the theme was “springboard you just dont understand”.. was all fear mongering etc.
just about every other ad was “we know times are tough, but fords are cheap.. or we have a special on plane tickets” etc etc ive never seen so much negative advertising in my life.
Vote:March 22nd, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Her timing won’t save her from what’s ahead.
Vote:March 22nd, 2009 at 3:25 pm
She was standing as an independent in a single seat big bruv. It would be very strange if she won the seat with 22% of the vote.
Vote:March 22nd, 2009 at 3:41 pm
lloydis
Cheers, I did not take any notice of this election and had assumed that she had run as a member of a party and not as an independent.
Vote:March 22nd, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Thats funny big bruv, you obviously haven’t read norightturn today then.
Vote:March 22nd, 2009 at 4:52 pm
The Queensland LNP are an ideologically bankrupt politically incoherent bunch of drongos. A drovers dog could beat them.
As for the patronizing snot nosed commie Anna Bligh-
“Studying at the University of Queensland from 1978, Bligh gained a Bachelor of Arts in social sciences. She then went on to be involved in the Women’s Rights Collective which campaigned against the pro-life policies of the Bjelke-Petersen government. She also protested for respect for women and against Playboy magazine.
Bligh’s next role was as Women’s Vice-President of the Student Union.
She subsequently worked in a number of community organisations, including child care services, neighbourhood centres, women’s refuges and trade unions as well as in the Queensland Public Service as a Senior Policy Officer for the Department of Employment, Vocational Education, Training and Industrial Relations.
Bligh was the secretary of the Labor Party’s Fairfield branch in 1987.” (Wikipedia)
As I said, a drover’s dog could have beaten the LNP party in Queensland, as Bligh has so well demonstrated.
Vote:March 22nd, 2009 at 7:13 pm
racer
“Thats funny big bruv, you obviously haven’t read norightturn today then”
Why the fuck would I want to waste heartbeats reading that shit?
Vote:March 22nd, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Sorry redbaiter … you need to back your ascertain with facts not rhetoric. The LNP is a relatively new creation and an amalgamation of two parties always produces initial tensions. Queensland Labor had all the power of the State behind it and used it to their advantage in the campaign with a series of attack ads targetting Springborg while conspiciously silent on their record. Ok, thats legitimate but the reality is that the State is is big stuk financially and just watch the fallout in the months ahead.
Labor might have won the battle but it could be a hollow victory. On the two party preferred vote Labor is currently less than 2% ahead which is hardly a crowning endorsement for a Party that went into the election holding 59 of the 89 seats in their parliament.
So I don’t accept your ‘drovers dog’ analogy.
Vote:March 22nd, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Australia, New Zealand and Queensland all have the same problem.
The parties that present themselves as the alternative to the hard line Fabian socialists are too spineless, too inarticulate and too ideologically crippled to offer voters a real alternative.
Too foolishly intimidated by the Progressive media and the Progressive academia to do and say what the man in the street wants them to do and say.
Their weak submissiveness over the last few decades has seen them end up in a political hole that will take them decades to get out of.
Vote:March 22nd, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Where’s the apology to Pauline Hanson for publishing photos that weren’t her?
Vote:March 22nd, 2009 at 7:58 pm
Ross, you forget to mention the money Clive Palmer poured into the LNP campaign which easily outspent Labor. TV advertising in QLD this last week was relentlessly in favour of the LNP not Labor courtesy of the huge amounts of money Palmer ws shovelling into the LNP campaign.
This is clearly a case of the voters being smart enough to recognise a dog when they see it and Springborg was clearly the inferior candidate.
Vote:March 22nd, 2009 at 9:22 pm
big bruv
Why the fuck would I want to waste heartbeats reading that shit?
Because above you were claiming that lefties arent complaining, I would have thought to make a claim like that that you may have actually gone and seen what some lefties are saying.
Vote:March 22nd, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Racer
It is the easiet thing in the world to say and that easiest thing to back up, pinko’s are always moaning about something unless is unfairly favours them.
As I said I do not have the spare heartbeats to waste on that left wing tripe.
Vote:March 22nd, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Your claiming no lefties are complaining about the result. The guy at norightturn is a leftie, who is complaining about the result. Admit you are wrong. Its easier to prove I am right.
Vote:March 22nd, 2009 at 10:15 pm
racer
Go back to the start of the thread, I made an assumption based on Hanson being part of a team or party, I have admitted I that assumption was incorrect.
I have no fucking idea where you get the impression I have been arguing a point with you.
You suggested for some strange reason that I read no right turn, I would rather eat glass that read that crap, as I told Lloydois I am happy to concede that I was misinformed about the Queensland election (it comes from not being the least bit interested in the election or the result)
If you want to take that as a moral victory then go ahead, knock yourself out, I simply don’t care.
Vote:March 22nd, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Just pointing out that your wrong that’s all
Vote:March 23rd, 2009 at 2:56 am
ah relax, the liberal party have government in WA, so Australia isn’t all Labor controlled.
Vote:March 23rd, 2009 at 8:25 am
I would have been happier about Hansons retirement if it had been bought about by people listening to her and rejecting her ideas rather than a cheap and nasty political stunt by a newspaper and others who reposted the pictures.
Thats deliberate subversion of democracy.
Vote:March 23rd, 2009 at 9:13 am
# MikeG (13) Vote: Add rating 4 Subtract rating 1 Says:
March 22nd, 2009 at 7:55 pm
“Where’s the apology to Pauline Hanson for publishing photos that weren’t her?”
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25220679-5001030,00.html
Vote:March 23rd, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Aussie’s Labour State Governments are stuffing Australia more than even Kevin Rudd could be responsible for. Think NZ’s city councils, only much, much bigger, and corrupt with it.
All the better to change the direction of the flow of brains across the Tasman.
Vote:March 23rd, 2009 at 3:50 pm
@big burv
Vote:You made the assertion that the left never complain about PR when it is favourable to them. You then claim that you never waste the time reading left nonsense. Now answer me this, how do you know what the left are and are not complaining about if you never listen to them?