Sounds like Queensland is getting the the NSW Labor disease.I think our system has cultivated cowards who take all the easy options.Go back to WW2 and the post war period as opposed to now,we've lost both the courage and insight into what elevates the spirit and only pander to political expediency and short term gratification.

Perseus,
If you go back and read my post you will read "even the Murdock press acknowledges the past mismanagment of Qld Health over generations" so it is not only me. It is the opinion of News Ltd.

Keith,
35,000 people who watch Rugby UNION 3-4 times a year compared with the support of Rugby League is laughable, Brisbane probably has 35,000 stuck up private school boys.

Interestingly I haven't yet heard of a Premier or Prime Minister who hasn't made a few mistakes.

“As a former ALP supporter, I despaired of Beattie almost from election night 1998 ("Jobs, jobs, jobs, that's what I'm about, jobs jobs, jobs." Soon shown to be nonsense)”

Faustino, my thoughts exactly. I was once a Labor supporter, back in 1989 when Goss won power and for a while after that, then I switched allegiance to the Democrats, then the Greens and then to on one, because no party comes within a thillion miles of addressing sustainability issues.

Perseus is right; the health debacle is of an extraordinary magnitude, which should be big enough to see Beatty beaten out of office. The health system is only the tip of the iceberg though. There are many other sections of society that have been allowed to decline or not keep up with population growth. Police numbers are one. The rising road toll is one consequence of that.

This is happening while Queensland has the greatest rate of economic growth in the country.

Beatty has delivered on his promise of greatly increased jobs and has kept taxes relatively low while bragging of a continuously increasing tax base. The trouble is, this hasn’t led to a significantly lower unemployment rate or significantly better quality of life. It has simply meant more jobs and economic growth for an ever-greater population without any average per-capita gain. Not only that, but it is this population growth that has created the jobs and economic growth, by and large, not Beatty. His only real claim to fame in this regard is his manic facilitation of population growth. And yet he has at times expressed concern about the negative aspects of this growth. How duplicitous!

The only significant thing that Beatty has done in the right direction, ie towards sustainability, has been the tree-clearing legislation.

People can see through the claptrap. Hopefully, with the blatant discrepancy between continued rapid economic growth and the awful decline in our health system and other major public utilities, enough people will see the absurdity in the promotion of rapid growth and will demand a government that caps growth and works towards genuine sustainability

The key point is that we need a proper functioning health system NOW but the people who will deliver the improvement will not come back to the system with this government in place.

So the voters of Queensland have a clear choice. They can either have a Labor Government or they can have a decent health system. They can't have both.

The only thing Beattie can do for the people of Queensland is to call an early election.

So the saying goes; "the only difference between Beattie and Judas is that Judas had the decency to hang himself afterwards..."

They say Beattie has 200 spin doctors to make himself seem like an honest man. Most people I know can manage that all by themselves.