As Palaszczuk’s government passes the halfway mark, her opponent’s vision for the LNP remains a mystery
, but given the history in Queensland and Australia of the mining sector successfully flexing its political muscle, it is unlikely to simply pack up and go home. Dick has dug his heels in to the extent that keeping his job would be untenable should the state government capitulate to the miners, like they did to the real estate sector.
The party is still caught balancing twin threats in regional Queensland – where it has lost support to small rightwing parties – and in city areas where voters don’t seem to like the cookers, climate deniers and rightwing Christians hovering on the fringe.
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