Looks like a mess. Voters are clearly fed up with party hacks and people looking for a job for life, but long complacency has left them thrashing about ineffectively.

A close run thing or a hung parliament? And as likely as not Graham? That said one or other of the majors has a chance to break through with something, both bold and doable! As opposed to just lambasting the other side AGAIN and AGAIN!

Folk are over, what the other side did or didn't do, and desperately want to hear some positive messages. That disregards/eliminates Putin's web!

Like the LNP is prepared to trial molten salt thorium power and rolled out under the banner of cooperative capitalism and then couple that to similar deionization dialysis desalination.

Malcolm wants innovation, the becalmed in the 19th century country is screaming for it and the industrial Renaissance it alone will bring.

The government/contesting parties need to reevaluate, stop thinking like always squabbling, local council bean counters and start thinking like CEO's of a, Corporate Queensland!

What Queensland and Qeenslanders need and don't have, unless government gets it for them is, affordable reliable power and affordable reliable water!

Promise those two and show how it's possible! Along with a miracle cancer cure! And quite massive medical tourism!

Is any of it possible? Clearly, all of it is! Via cooperative capitalism that absolutely, brings everyone along for the ride!

Then, my fellow Queenslanders, [to put a few words in a real (visionary) leaders mouth,] capture the imagination and the landslide victory it could produce this time, the next and next etc/etc, if fully and comprehensively followed through!

If that's too hard? Vacate the field and the contest! Putin's puppets are waiting!
Alan B.

Major polls are notorious for only conducting their work where it doesn't require an STD Call... ie a few main cities and nearby surrounding Areas.....

I suspect that the countryside has heavily turned off The LNP , the ALP and they have never liked The Greens.... So what does that leave.....?

It is going to be very messy and will guarantee a hung Parliament..

A hung parliament? Unless?

The two majors preference each other, to effectively, sideline the tail waging the dog, minors? Then just let the contest of ideas decide who wins what!

And by remaining true to your own values, rather than imposed from without by disruptive dividers and the usual idiots!

Cooperative capitalism is the way forward! It sidelines the unions and debt laden, tax avoiding, profit repatriating foreigners looking for a captive market and a free ride, e.g., Adani?

One need look no further than our own Maleny to see how remarkably successful cooperative capitalism is! And that it is, above all else, free market private enterprise at its very best.

Moreover allows our money to stay far longer in the community working in it and for it, as opposed to greed driven, debt laden tax avoiding profit repatriating foreign investors!

Finally and to reiterate, cooperative capitalism also sidelines unions, which it renders, both redundant and irrelevant!

Those who finance elections as private/opaque donors, must be told in no uncertain terms! They're not buying either influence or favourable outcomes!

Moreover, this is to be the last election anywhere where any of this democracy destroying rubbish is possible!

Crowd funding and or the electoral commission needs to alone, or in transparent combination, provide electoral funding and that ought to be L.A.W. law!

And Aunty ought be the only one giving prime time, and rationed time to any properly registered candidate and electoral debates!?

Further, the Labour party needs to fully embrace and include democracy, rather than union heavies to decide pre-selection outcomes!

Always providing, we have enforceable laws that prevent branch stacking and parachuted in, candidates!

In conclusion let me add this observation.

Co-ops stood almost alone as the only private enterprise business model, that mostly survived the Great Depression, largely intact!

We are not yet in the grip of a Great Depression nor even a recession?

But a economy harming stagnation of sorts and couldn't be harmed in any way whatsoever! By government facilitated and financed, our own Maleny style, cooperative capitalism, in (nuclear) energy (desalinated) water, (home made bio) gas and industrial manufacture, across the board!

As a snowballing and never before matched, economic Renaissance!
Alan B

If Pauline Hanson could stop advertising how plain stupid she is; and that with her own mouth, she would be a more viable contender.

People are desperate for an alternative to the insulting two party system. It's past due time for non-compulsory voting, as in America. Voting is an increasingly pointless exercise!