The ABC, CH7, 9 and 10 and the Canberra Media Gallery are the best asset Tony Abbott has.

The longer they fail to recognize the real significance of the QLD election, the better.

The more they tell us it was all about State issues, the more they ignore electorates, the more angry and frustrated the electorates become, the more they will feel they are not being listened to, the bigger the federal baseball bat.

The federal ALP, the Greens and the independents will be decimated at the next federal election because the politicians and their cheer squads have learnt nothing, so the same will happen again. WA, NSW, VIC, QLD.

Shadow Ministers thread is; “Queensland election, a referendum on the carbon tax”.

So many posters on this thread will do anything to avoid looking into this issue and that tells us one thing for certain, SM is spot on.

We can address that issue or join the commentariat

Well, I have just read about half the comments on here.
Pretty much as expected from all the usual suspects.
The trouble is neither of the parties, (the greens don't count) are
prepared to face up to the changes that are on the way.
None of them will be prepared to say to the electorate something like;

"No, cannot do that, you do not have the money !".

We now have a large debt we will need to try and get reduced before
we can start up the bulldozers for all the projects that will be
promised over the next five or six years.
I think Andrew Robb should be treasurer after the federal election as
he does seem to understand our financial predicament.
He made a speach in Parliament recently on our situation, but it got
zero cover in the media.
One notable thing he pointed out was that a large slab of labours
financial incentive has not been spent !

Barnaby Joyce was the only one who was game to say that the US was in
danger of default, and he lost his job for that. He was ultimately
proved right and the only reason was the US did not default was
because it produced many $trillions of pixel money.
Not even the printing presses could produce money fast enough.
No wonder the A$ is US$1.04.

No, an entirely different approach will be needed by all governments from now on.

>> Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has side-stepped questions over whether he still considers the Queensland election a referendum on the carbon tax.

Ahead of the election, Mr Abbott was urging Queenslanders to use their vote to send a message to Labor on the tax. This afternoon he refused to be drawn on the issue, saying instead the result was a triumph for Campbell Newman and great for the LNP. <<

Says it all, really.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a/-/latest/13255421/as-it-happened-new-era-in-queensland/

Of course, the main stream media e.g. The ABC, CH7, 9 and 10 and the Canberra Media Gallery + SBS, radio, blogs, foreign media, Financial Review, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Australian, Courier Mail, yada yada yada ... have got it all wrong.

What it looks like to most of the above: Abbott has not only side-stepped, but demonstrated yet again he shoots from the hip - much like Sarah Palin, and our very own Shadow Minister and Spindoctor.

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Bazz, haven't you heard - Mr Newman 'can do' everything :)

BM,

There are two aspects of the carbon tax:
1 That Juliar broke a promise to the electorate, which makes it an issue of trust and integrity.
2 That it is a cost of living issue.

No one can doubt that cost of living and broken promises are the main reason that the Labor MPs can barely fill a minivan, and there is no doubt that without the carbon tax Labor would have lost but not received such a drubbing.

Qld voted for issues regarding QLD, to vote for something federal is saying the people are stupid.
I think the floods are playing a big part in QLD politics, and that is something that is not going to improve., even the southern states are getting monsoonal rain.
Be interesting to see how CN handles the situation.
Butch has got him up there with JC.

579:

JC is a semimythical creation. The reality of CN worries me. He leads a party that wanted to disassociate itself from all of its parliamentarians. No matter who you vote for a politician gets elected.