This article definitely has that academic whiff about it of disagreeing with popular opinion for the sake of disagreeing.

hp/quote..""There is also a salutary lesson here for voters,""

for voters?

thought it was alp/obama problem?
or the NON MENTIONING..of their true agenda

not making promise[nor revealing their real adgenda]
or rather keeping secret promises it made to lobby mates
like..[no mention of the smoking tax/sellking asset for pennies../or clive palmers lnp/railways]

im really angry about the sale outright
of the forrest reserves[within one hour of bris gpo
for 800 million...[when at 'real land values..as house blocks]
38.000 hectares would have cleared the whole debt]..

even under 'harvest clauses'on the land[after felling the tree harvest...they could have created..better than logan city..[and reaped the windfall]

but its also the water selloff/de'sal plants to their mates
doubling the price of electicity/to claw back a far to generouse powwer buyback[plus so much more]..but ONGING/'lie by ommision' ..is right up there

""candidates promise..will try very hard to deliver""

yep PROMISE TO MATE's...
or lawsuiters..[like clive palmer's]
who reaped his windfall..65 billion mine[with ana's help]

peter beatups..deals..like the half bill to NOT build a magnesium plant in gladstone[plus howards half bill to BAILOUT..the same "mates/promises'

""Those politicians..who will do anything
to keep their promises""...[deals to mates]..""can sometimes turn out to be more dangerous..than those who do not""

yes your right
in part

Before you can say Labor lost you had best see what you replaced it with. If CN does not deliver, or finds it just can not happen the way he thought. SE qld has a problem, what is his solution. It's all very well to wash the cloths, but if you have more dirty work to do , it's little point.

While Bligh herself may not have made the promise, it is clear that Labor's position was that there were to be no asset sales. This then looked like a deliberately broken promise when the asset sales were announced days after the election.

This was an issue of broken trust, for which the voters correctly punished QSW labor, and for which Federal labor will be held to account.

The other issues you raised is reminiscent of Howard's core and non core promises.

2 days into his Premiership Campbell Newman was giving his LNP mates plumb positions. He and the LNP were extremely vocal on jobs for mates by Labor - he had broken an implied promise that the media is not howling about.

Newman will rapidly take Queensland back 30 years with the dismantlement of environmental schemes. He will lead us back to the Joh era of the white-shoe-brigade. Already the police union and Newman seem to be confused about the separation of powers that Joh into such strife. I am tipping that like in the Joh era, protesting in Queensland will become illegal again - we will become the laughing stock of the reset of Aus.

Campbell Newman has broken his implied promise from the very beginning of his reign.

I predict that by the time of the next state election, the miners will have had a free hand with minimal environmental concerns, law and order will have a political tint, corruption will have tainted the govt, and many of the people who voted for the LNP will have lost their jobs and many will find their real wages are reduced.

Why aren't the media berating Newman for his broken promise.

'Newman will rapidly take Queensland back 30 years with the dismantlement of environmental schemes.'

Most Queenslanders will hope so. They have seen through failed socialist dogma that increases Government and does over everyone else. They have also voted on the mother of all environmental dogmas (carbon tax) that anyone who can think at all would reject.