Thanks Cornflower.

<< ...from what I have seen of the Greens they are no better >>

Given that consensus and local decision-making are core Green values, I'm wondering what makes you say that. As an example, it is not the Greens who are unwilling to negotiate and compromise in the Federal Senate over the proposed 'alcopops' tax. The Greens Senators have negotiated a mutually satisfactory position with the Government, but it is the antics of Family First's Steve Fielding that look like scuttling the Bill.

During the current Qld election campaign, the Greens have negotiated a preference swapping deal with the ALP in numerous key seats - including that of Ronan Lee, who defected from the ALP to the Greens last year. I can assure you that there's no love lost there!

As far as the election campaign goes, I think that one of its biggest weaknesses for the ALP is their decision to mount a 'presidential' style campaign, pitting Bligh against Springborg while silencing local candidates. Although Bligh is obviously the more intelligent and capable candidate for Premier, the negativity of the campaign from both sides is obviously working for the Borg.

I can't quantify it, but I have a sneaking suspicion that the electorate tolerates negative sniping better from a male boofhead than from an intelligent woman.

Graham Young is reporting on a cycle of electoral truths that extends for many years in the Commonwealth. When the conservatives are in power in Canberra Labor rules the States, and vice versa. This is because although we have an Australian Constitution the electorate does not understand it, and neither do the lawyers in Australia.

Queensland is a funny place, and when it was mentioned during lectures in NSW a ripple of laughter would pass through the class room. Both Queensland in 1899, and WA introduced Canon Law, that is the Lex talionis, the eye for an eye law of the Old Testament with their Criminal Codes, in place of the Lex Misericordiae the law of mercy, that was a feature of English Protestaant Law. I seriously suspect that Sir Samuel Griffith was a Welsh Roman Catholic.

Under Canon Law, a Priest rules. While S 80 Constitution, has prevented the worst excesses the almost universal rejection of S 79 Constitution, by the Lawyer Priests of the High Court and of the Federal Attorney General which was to guarantee the separation of powers in Ch III Constitution, has meant only a partial Commonwealth. The wholesale importation of American translations of the Holy Bible, where the word citizen is substituted for the word Commonwealth in Ephesians 2:12, has helped break down the federation by dividing the Christian electorate.

If the electorate changes the Queensland Government, then the whole of the judiciary should be changed also, because they are universally dishonest and have been robbing the Treasury and the Queen’s revenue to line the pockets of the legal profession, since 1991.

S 51 and 259 of the Supreme Court Act 1995, which both guarantee universal jury trials, are in irreconcilable conflict with the Supreme Court of Queensland Act 1991, but not one of the Judges and Magistrates in Queensland has allowed their application ever since. If the new Government either Labor or Liberal will apply that law, then copious Federal money will flow to Queensland, because the legal profession who have been calling the dance, will have to now pay the piper

At last

Out with the old incompetent labor. Labor's record is of high debt and low growth whether at state or federal level.

Too bad we have to wait for 2 years for NSW.

The Greens have sold out on Traveston Dam. That old Beattie slogan of 'Just Vote One' is looming to bite Labor on the Butt.

Springborg might just grow into the job. At least he won't be parachuted into it like his opponent.

But all he really has to do to win in Brisbane is say to Brisbane people

'I won't make you drink your recycled pee'.

He'd win in a trot.

Not very often does a government get tossed out badly in an atmosphere of boredom. I see what your polls and these self-selected sample surveys are saying, but I (as a non-betting man!) think the betting shops are right. I reckon Labor will win the election.

Major changes of government in the past have happened if a government was shockingly on the nose - not just old - AND if the opposition has done hard yards in putting up a coherent and credible policy framework.

Springborg and the LNP have NOT done that. Indeed their economic "strategy" looks inappropriate. Cutting spending, and increasing uncertainty about job security, is not conducive to the sort of confidence that will mitigate a recession.

Most of the complaints against the State government come from the fact that resources are limited, while the State's population is growing very fast. If there's a change of government, I'll be amazed if Springborg and co. can do a better job. They might give some oil to the squeaky wheel here or there, but they won't sstdop new squeaky wheels appearing in other places - simply because there isn't enough money to fix all of them. Especially if they rabbit on about reducing taxes.

I'm too realistic to fall for that one.

In 2004, the Liberals pulled off a political miracle, bleeding off 2 points of popularity a week in seven weeks from Mark Latham: seven point deficit in the polls to a seven point win.
In 2007 KR, as a Christian, got the miracle for the Labor Party, that no atheist could deliver.

The Labor Party Government in Queensland from 1989, was dominated by atheist lawyers. In 1991 they made a naked lawyers power grab, and elevated their henchmen, Judges and Magistrates to be the idols of modern day Queensland. These God substitutes do the bidding of State Labor, and we got absolutely sick and tired of them in 1996, and tossed Goss out.

Unfortunately the lawyers had the LNP by the cohones, and when Borbidge proved to be just as bad as Goss, they put the lawyer Peter Beattie in, amid the chaos caused by Pauline Hanson. If anyone can get the money to make Queensland wealthy it will be the Borg. The Australian Labor Party has had the last twenty years with a small break for a pseudo Labor government to get it right and failed. They have now reduced themselves to overt thievery to pay their bills.

Talking of naked power grabs, if the Queensland Government makes the courts again comply with the Constitution of Australia after the election, they can take $165,000 a day from the Newspaper that violated the right to privacy of a certain red headed woman politician. For you lawyer types, the penalties are set out in the Crimes Act 1914 ( Cth) and a Commonwealth court can impose them. Of course the Insurance will pay for the damage, but the breach of Statute the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which guarantees privacy, should not be allowed to go unpunished. Max Mosely would not cop it in England, and nor should she.

This is where the Queensland Government has an enormous untapped revenues source, in the Qui Tam action so successfully used in the United States by Myra Breckonridge. All the laws are in place here to get the revenue flowing