Otokonoko.

There is no absolute right or absolute wrong in regard to how people should have voted.

The real problem is the absolute lack of democracy and accountability once one party or the other obtains an outright majority in Parliament.

Given that conservative governments succeeding inept Labor Governments have often assumed the right to do whatever the bloody well please regardless of what was said in the course of the election campaign, Queensland electors also had good reason to be apprehensive about the prospect of the election of the LNP.

I think many who voted Labor may have had at the backs of their minds the sheer nastiness of the Greiner and Kennett state Governments and the Howard Federal Government upon winning office. There is no way they could have known that a Springborg LNP government would have turned out fundamentally differently to those.

That said, as I have said before, I am as disgusted as anyone at the conduct of this 'Labor' Government. It now seems unlikely that a Springborg LNP Government could have turned out worse than this Labor Government has turned out.

the multiheaded hydra is exposed inherant in the two party system of voter abuses...not to mention the fed v state levels of 2 party abuse

the party system aint it neat..[just as neat as the divide of state/national..feed-de-rat/federal]...just as neat that sees reduction of smoking result in ever higher cancer statistic...

its funny how a case is made in the courts[ie in private by the boys club lawyers]...and the news reports one party conspired to decieve us in a conspiricy..while selling us the new tax on smoking..[isnt a conspiricy...lol..

and the sukkers[sorry voters just do as their told..[by lawyers running govt as their own 2 party franchise and their own law making state /fed frannchise..and the fools[sorry voters..are none the wiser

just as neat as carbon taxes..being the cure for global warming[oops sorry carbon blamed climate change...that will be made by lawyers and never tested in courts...but even if they were,they would be tested by yet other lawyers[so much for the sepperation of powers lol]

lawyers making laws...any of you ever study the shear ammount of law beaty passed/changed and adopted...his over two hundred secerataries wernt all needed to monitor the ever reducing media...but as usual not a word from the sheeple of the media...

nor those godheads of virtue on talkback radio/blogs or letters to the editor..[no doudt a lawyer in the boys club as well]..discussing sports as news lol..

just like rome old boy..just like rome...any wonder history isnt taught in school anymore...lol..how come smokers/..got their tax,.how come boozers//.got their tax..

how come we are now paying gst tax..how come we soon will be paying carbon tax ..lol..go figure...shhhh dont wake the sheeple...but its NOT/sepperation of law..from lawyers running the two party/two states scam

QLD is still suffering the effects of belchin joe.
It's about time ya paid ya dues on petrol, and it should be back dated about 25 years.

Desmond,

In a sense, we have been paying our dues on petrol. With the government subsidising fuel, they have spent money that could have been used in hospitals, schools, roads, emergency services, capital works . . . everything we DON'T have here in Queensland can be considered part of the price of the fuel subsidy.