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Post by marchesarosa on Mar 24, 2012 12:31:29 GMT 1
QUEENSLANDERS have gone to the polls and driven the Labor Party from the state government.
Presumably the writing is now on the wall for the National Labour/Green coalition government.
Hopefully bye-bye soon for the silly Carbon Tax and the silly proposals for media censorship. What prats. Reality is at last catching up with this daft government.
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Post by marchesarosa on Mar 24, 2012 16:10:46 GMT 1
Campbell Newman will be the next premier of Queensland, with the LNP expected to have a staggering 74 seats in the 89-seat parliament.  The Labor Party, led by Premier Anna Bligh, were defeated by the opposition Liberal National Party, led by Campbell Newman. It is only the sixth time that Queenslanders have ousted a sitting government since 1915.
The ALP was attempting to win a ninth consecutive election victory, having won every general election in Queensland since 1989 although it was out of office between 1996 and 1998.Katter's Australian Party contested the election for the first time. Before the election, it held two seats whose members had been elected as LNP candidates.
In the previous election, of 89 seats total, Labor won 51 seats, the Liberal Nationals 34, and independents the remaining four. Preliminary results show that Labor has been reduced to only seven seats and suffered a swing against it of 16 percent.
The LNP will form government for the first time in its history, and is projected to win 78 seats. If these results hold, Labor will have suffered the worst defeat of a sitting government in Queensland history, and the LNP will have won the largest majority government in Queensland history. It will also be the first time that a non-Labor government has won an outright majority since the Queensland Nationals won their last victory in 1986.wiki |
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Post by marchesarosa on Mar 24, 2012 17:04:37 GMT 1
The landslide defeat in Queensland leaves the ALP out of power in all but the two smallest of Australia’s six states, with Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard facing a federal election within 20 months.
Fingers crossed!
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Post by marchesarosa on Mar 25, 2012 13:54:07 GMT 1
The count seems to be very slow in Queensland!
So far there are 76 seats declared for the Libs and 6 for Labor in an 89 seat parliament. 4 seats have gone to other parties.
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Post by rsmith7 on Mar 25, 2012 18:41:21 GMT 1
Good on the Aussies! Spent a lot of time there and always found them to be no nonsense, common sense people. How that looney, Gillard, got elected I don't know. Urban lefties no doubt. Here's the best Queensland premier (we'll overlook the three lane highway built miles into the bush and coincidently to his front door) : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joh_Bjelke-Petersen |
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Post by marchesarosa on Mar 28, 2012 15:52:39 GMT 1
Jo Nova says Australia is stepping back from the cliffWe shouldn’t underestimate shift that has just taken place. The psychology of Australian politics moved as the large swinging center was revealed. Not only was the Queensland election worse for Labor than anyone predicted, the message was clear, voters rejected the lies, and rejected the carbon tax. The smear campaign by the Labor leader (Bligh) did more harm to her than it did to her target. Finally, the Hype-&-Spin Machine ran off the rails. This is real progress. Today both Queensland and Victoria are peeling back the warmist bureaucracy. I’m happy. The new premier of Queensland Campbell Newman, is scrapping many state carbon reduction schemes. Who knew that the head of Queensland’s Office of Climate Change was none other than Mr Withers, husband of former Premier Anna Bligh? Who said the Labor Party nowadays is just about government money for supporters and mates? Campbell Newman has said he won’t sack Withers. Instead he wants him to unwind all the programs he put in place. Newman is keeping the solar subsidies for household rooftops, but everything else is being dumped. At the same time, the Victorian premier has stated that he’s slashing the state’s commitment to reduce carbon by 20% by 2020. When will we teach the broken window fallacy at school? Decades after Hayek make it clear, most commentators still don’t get it. Sure the renewable energy sector will lose jobs when it’s not propped up by the forced payments from the Victorian Government, but if there is $2 billion dollars out there to redistribute, there is exactly the same funds available for more useful jobs — jobs the people of Victoria would rather got done. Don’t you love it, when a politician promises something useful and does it in his first week in office? Go Campbell! Keep reading joannenova.com.au/2012/03/there-go-those-gravy-trains-in-queensland-victoria/ |
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Post by marchesarosa on Mar 28, 2012 18:57:57 GMT 1
From Aussie Warwick Hughes www.warwickhughes.com/blog/?p=1451#commentsMarch 27th, 2012 by Warwick Hughes I often check the BBC news website for this or that region – thinking I will at least get a half competent digest of what is going on. Now I am not so sure – perhaps the BBC is just a great waste of time. Note that you click on Asia to get Australian news – here is a screen shot. For days now the Australian stories have been – Huawei barred in Australia deal – Australia extinction ‘due to man’ – and Australia’s most wanted man held, which is so important to score 2 links. Refers to the capture of a prison escapee in NE NSW 5 days ago early last Thursday 22 March. I have been looking for the BBC take on the Queensland State election (24 Mar 12) which reduced the ruling Labor party to a single digit number of seats – I think the greatest defeat in an Australian election in my lifetime. The BBC has nothing on this. Yet when you search for Queensland election – you come up with many articles on Queensland elections – including glowing reports of Labor’s 2009 win. If you search for Queensland election 2012 you still get no BBC ref – but you do get an offsite ref to a Murdoch Australian site. I can only conclude that the BBC news service is very odd, slack and biased to the left side of politics. |
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Post by rsmith7 on Mar 28, 2012 19:11:51 GMT 1
The BBC is now completely beyond the pale.
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Post by marchesarosa on Mar 29, 2012 15:16:43 GMT 1
Still no final result. Libs expected to have 77 or 78 seats, Labor 6 or 7.
Isn't it satisfying when the electorate REALLY makes its views known!
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