Well Graham, your article strengthens my thoughts that polotics is more about how bad a party can be, rather than how much better the other side can be.

The next election will be very interesting and, may well be a protest vote which will see labor loose rather than the LNP win.

It is unfortunate, but, the reality is that very few parties win elections, rather, they loose. In Blighs case, last time she just didn't loose badly enough to be voted out of office.

Meanwhile, the bar just gets lowered time and time again.

I basically agree Cornflower.

Just one comment in response to this:

<< …she is not responsible for federal immigration excesses that threaten the sustainability not only of Queensland but of all of Australia…[or] for the additional tax burden on present day taxpayers to provide additional infrastructure for the unnecessary and excessive population growth attributable to record immigration intakes decided by federal government. >>

Bligh is not totally innocent either. She should have been very loudly protesting to Rudd about this right from the time that he won power and raised immigration. In fact, her silence on this is highly irresponsible.

Graham, all the LNP needs to do, was all they needed to do in the last election and the 'coalition' for the election before that was to stop looking like a bunch of stunned wombats that don't have any kind of cohesion or plan. The way that's accomplished is to get at least one competent (doesn't matter if they are liars, they're all liars at some stage) person out front and keep the spotlight off everyone else.

The reason the LNP (and the previous L&NP) lose all the time is that they don't even have a competent liar.

In fact, her silence on this is highly irresponsible.
Ludwig,
It took petitions from tens of thousands of people to get her Government to upgrade the second busiest airport in Australia & get Qantas to pull out its finger out & to provide a decent service via the monopoly given to it by this Government. You're right it is highly irresponsible & not very competent policy making at all. Why did it need a petition ? Are these ministers so ignorant that they need to be pushed rather than think ?

You have to be very carefull when you extend airports, as the very reason they carry so much traffic is due to cheap flights.

Now with ETS, or some form of it about to come in to play, is there a chance we will see an end to these cheap flights and, what will happen to all this infastructure if and when this happens.

After all, you know there's a real problem when your taxi ride from the airport costs you more than your flight!

These are assetts I would certainly sell, if we own them that is.

As for the LNP, I would like to see Peter Dutton, or perhaps Mal Brough run for leader. This would make Bligh shake in her boots.

And what about the forced council mergers 'we had to have', which would make goverment more efficient.

All it's done is increased rates to almost unaffordable levels.

There is nothing wrong with the present (State) leader of the LNP. His more measured, quiet delivery and progressive conservatism are attractive to voters, both male and female, however he needs to get known. It would also be useful if Barnaby Joyce could move his mouth interstate.

The electorate is weary of attack dogs and their scare campaigns. How many surveys show that voters want an opposition that doesn't merely oppose but is constructive and can rise above the tawdry, bully boy (and bully girl) politics that squander time and resources in difficult times?

In the parliament, the LNP needs to look and act like quiet achievers and leave the sensationalist criticism of the government to those who do it best, the hacks of the media who already smell blood. It is in the electorate that the LNP can dramatically improve its chances for the next election. To get into power do the hard yards in the electorate while Bligh gets a hernia trying to build her image with hacks who are only interested in cheap headlines through stereotyping her.

The risk of continuing to sink the slipper into Anna Bligh is that the electorate will become sympathetic to her for copping endless flack for things she is not responsible for. Further, she will be seen as strong and resilient for still having her chin up despite the cowardly self-seeking criticism of unions, the usual noisy suspects in the community and the cheap shots of media hacks and editors.

Matter of fact, I reckon Anna Bligh has already turned the corner and is already the recipient of the grudging admiration of voters for being strong - not always right - but strong enough to try to hear out the other side and stick with her commitments and defend her choices. I happen to agree: she has got guts, she doggedly pushes on and who can doubt her concern for the good of Queensland?