With today’s closure of nominations, ballot paper order has been determined and full lists of candidates published on the Electoral Commission of Queensland website. There are seven registered parties at the election, of which the Liberal National Party, Labor and the Greens are fielding candidates in all 89 electorates, as they did in 2012. Palmer United is fielding 50, Family First 28 (compared with 38 last time), Katter’s Australian Party 11 (well down on 76 last time), and One Nation also 11 (up from six last time), with 66 independents (up from 43 in 2012). The total number of candidates in 433, almost exactly the same as the 430 at the 2012 election, despite the short notice of the election. The list of registered parties differs from 2012 only in that Palmer United has joined the party. Campbell Newman got the better of the ballot paper draw in Ashgrove, landing second place with Labor’s Kate Jones last out of five candidates.
I agree with Steve777 on other thread who said that with PUP fading, Clive needs to do something. Maybe saying they will disallow the medicare changes would be a start.
sorry – Tom Hawkins – at 318
Interesting to see Jeff Knuth back in the One Nation fold – one of the class of ’98! He’s running in Thuringowa, which KAP seems to be sitting out despite nearly winning in 2012. And Dan van Blarcom’s running as an independent in Whitsunday, having finally cleared up that unpleasant Nazi/undercover business that did him in in 2004.
Re betting markets – what’s the betting market odds if cando the Muppet losses Ashgrove he is catapulted to a safe federal seat?
Looks like Labor will pay a high price for not changing leader in 2014.
5.
Labor would if they DID change leader. As it stands, no, not particularly.
You’ve got to have cut through, the smart play would have been to appoint the retread guy – dick as leader in waiting and a number of retreads as shadow ministers like hincliffe. Ironic isn’t nsw labor is too quick to reach for the sword and qld labor to slow to do so. It’s like porridge it’s got to be just right.
esj – who is your tip for next Premier of Queensland?
I find it hard to believe that an LNP member would fall on their sword if Newman loses his seat. Especially as Campbell has “sort of” said that won’t happen.
Re 5 and 7
How many people find it an Abbott-standard absurdity for Liberals – who cannot even manage themselves and have pretty much screwed up everything they have touched since September 2013 – giving advice to Labor?
Well, I’ll give some advice in return. Abbott and the Coalition should keep doing everything exactly how they are doing it now. It is sure to get them re-elected with a whopping increased majority. You know it makes sense.
Whoever succeeds outgoing premier Campbell znewman, they will find it hard to do worse at economic management. Newman delivered lower growth, fewer full time jobs, lower invome growth and higher unemployment than both predecessor Anna Bligh and the rest of Australia.
http://theconversation.com/the-true-state-of-queenslands-economy-without-the-spin-35959
Can-Do? No, as it turned out, he couldn’t.
[I find it hard to believe that an LNP member would fall on their sword if Newman loses his seat. Especially as Campbell has “sort of” said that won’t happen.]
That really depends – there may be a government appointment that can be made that gives them better pay than they’d earn as a backbench member.
I suspect Newman will be re-elected anyway, but we’ll see.
If he loses Ashgrove, Newman won’t be given another seat, state or federal. Why? Because a large chunk of his own party will be glad to see the back of him, the degree to which he is despised by prominent Liberal supporters in Queensland is remarkable.
On a quick flick through the nominations, the LNP seems to have done pretty well with the draw.
Did the ALP succeed in persuading the president of the law society to run?
I think a candidate’s reliance on the donkey vote is overrated these days. During my time scrutineering, I rarely see one.
ltep 11 – i know this sort of thing has been done in the past, but by law it is actually illegal to give an inducement for someone to stand for, or not stand for, or resign from any Australian Parliament.
It may be illegal but hard to prove without a smoking gun.
RR
[i know this sort of thing has been done in the past, but by law it is actually illegal to give an inducement for someone to stand for, or not stand for, or resign from any Australian Parliament.]
IIRC, this is what got Premier Nick Greiner unstuck in NSW. Forced-to-resign-style unstuck.
If CanDo loses his seat then you can be sure that great swathes of his parliamentary colleagues will have also lost their seats. Why would someone step down to let him back into parliament so that he can finish the destruction.
Seven spruiking an Ashgrove poll on tonight’s news. wonder if the leprechaun has gained a few points
Jillian O’Grady@14
Especially it should not be much of an issue in Queensland because of the use of optional preferential voting. I think some of the voters who donkey-vote in federal elections do so because they believe it is illegal to vote informally. Such voters can just vote 1 in Queensland, they don’t need to fill in every box. Probably the only voters left donkey-voting are those who are being silly or those who actually happen to prefer the candidates in that order.
New thread.