Dan I think you would find, if you could get to the why of peoples voting, that quite a few wanted to elect LNP or Labor, but wanted to give them a bit of a kick in the butt, & a bit of worry along the way. I know many here did.

We knew that One Nation, the greens or Aus Conservatives would not get up in the house, but depending on our politics, we gave one of them first preference, & the few bob for the vote. I preference our LNP member 3Rd. Not that it mattered when he got over 60% first preferences, but they did not get some vote money.

For the senate My first major candidate was at 6Th. The first 5 probably elected a couple of minor party members, then a few LNP, with one or 2 exhausted, as there was no one else I wanted to elect. I know quite a few who intended to do this, although some probably gave up & voted above the line, when they saw the paper.

Hopefully the parties will read the correct message from the allocation of first preferences, but perhaps not, they can be pretty thick sometimes.

Gee willakers, Bernie. You actually wrote "Human Induced Climate Change" in your opinion piece. Nobody says that anymore. Not even the UN climate change panel who invented the whole fantasy. The reason being, that if the UN IPCC keeps using that term, somebody is going to demand that they prove that human activity is causing global temperatures to rise. And they know that they can't do that. So they just keep carping on about "climate change" and hope that the naive and easily duped will make the connection without them having to say it.

Now Bernie, you are saying that Queenslanders chose jobs over climate change. You are therefore implying that Queenslanders are greedy and don't give a damn about a situation threatening the whole of humanity. I suppose that makes you feel all morally and intellectually superior to your social inferiors, but consider this.

We have been hearing this climate change claptrap for thirty years now. According to your alarmist friends, Miami should be under 5 meters of water, right now. The North Pole should be ice free and all the polar bears should have drowned. The Himalayan glaciers should have melted. The Antarctic should have shrunk. The dams in Australia should have never filled again. If climate scientists claim that they are experts and make doom filled predictions based upon their "expert" knowledge, which are laughably inaccurate, then even supposedly dumb and immoral Queenslanders can conclude that they don't have a single, solitary clue what they are talking about.

That being the case, a more worthy explanation for the election result in Queensland, Bernie, is that working class people are street level smarter than hubris suffering inner city graduates, living in their trendy urban ghettoes, living off daddy's trust fund, and endlessly virtue signaling by extolling fashionable views that they chant like mantras, and which they never bother to critically examine.

Yep to that hasbeen, but the there are two shoes.
The other is exampled by Clive Palmer.
Palmers was a mop-up operation designed deliberately to fool the electorate (or the less educated of them), into believing he was an alternative.

But an alternative he never intended himself to be!
His blatant abuse of the system, is a stark example of abuse of privilege which he openly and gleefully admitted to.

It could be speculated, his three percent of the primary vote he purchased for fifty million dollars, was a conclusive factor in the outcome of an election which, if he had not participated in, would be a totally different outcome.

So actually, this is not your election hasbeen, it was Clive Palmers. That my boy is corruption at the top level!

Dan

As a very crude measure of weather change, Lake Eyre has filled twice this year. It has filled only a handful of times since post-settlement, in this land of droughts and flooding rains.

Joe

I can't speak for other areas Dan, but I know you are wrong about Palmer in this area. His whole performance was treated as a joke, & not only affected very few votes, but the minor flow on to the LNP was of votes they would have received directly, or like mine as a second or third preference from more conservative candidates.