too many Joh years..
579,
I suppose you're too young to remember when every other Australian aspired to move to Queensland because it was so good then. You now say Joh was not good for this state ? I tell you what's been proven to be no good for Queensland & indeed Australia, the ALP.

Will Captain Bligh go down with her ship? or will there be a mutiny on the Bounty tonight? In the deep north will the Mad Katter Party pull in enough red necks and good olde boys and win a seat or two? Has anyone realised Campbell Newman spelt backwards is Robin Hood but unlike the man from Sherwood Campbell intends to rob from the poor and give to the rich and keep on giving until there is nothing left. As for us Greens we better hide up a big tree and hope the conservative tide don't wash us away.

First Rechtub, Labor stooge offends me,if I was unable to see the faults, and call for better in my party, then it would fit me.
Spin doc, a few short weeks ago an ALP Hero stood by Rudd,and reminded us he loves fighting Torys.
I do too, it is your party that does actually want to take pension rises back, let miners off with super tax.
Not give the small business tax cuts.
Wants an end to boats but only its way.
Wants, no says it wants ,to turn the boats around at sea.
You and I could have a beer and talk but in the end we must confront each other.
I live for fairness and equity, your side for the rich.
Not the party your work place is named after Menzies , but a branch of American republicanism.
I offer this advice, to swinging voters, go now, to the Liberal party's national page, read it,judge it.
It shames the once Liberal party.
Paul 1405, tonight if greens do no better than NSW Democracy lives still in Australia.
All other party's must come to an agreement to isolate the greens ,even if we end preferential voting.
We should, let our votes count only once.

I'm surprised to see so little credit given to Campbell Newman in this thread. He has united the LNP and presented a capable and affable persona throughout the campaign. I doubt that the LNP would have won without him. That is why Labor conducted such a vicious campaign against him, and I cant say I'm sorry to see their effort backfire so badly.

Belly Showing your conservative colours there with this "All other party's must come to an agreement to isolate the greens" By all other parties I take it such wacko's as Rise Up Australia Party, Katter's Australia Party, Democratic Labour Party, One Nation, Family First Party, Shooters and Fishers Party, Christian Democratic Party, The Belly Party, Building Australia Party, No Parking Meters Party, Liberal Party, National Party, Australian Labor Party and if they are not still deregistered Grey Power!
Stop trying to use The Greens as the scapegoat for the failure that besets the ALP its all the doings of conservative party members who took the party in the wrong direction, now the ALP is reaping the rewards. I have met so many ALP members, union activists, that call themselves Labor but in truth their politics are so conservative on anything to do with social justice they are just right wingers who pretend or delude them self to think they are 'true believers'.

I could not believe my ears just a little while ago, as I watched the result of another Labor party venture into having state lady premiers.

This I believe, their 4Th effort has been, for the LNP coalition, the most successful yet. Yes this effort is going to produce a Queensland parliament with less than 10 labor members.

While discussing this result I heard Peter Beattie predict that another couple of ladies will become their leader & deputy leader, in the new parliament.

I have always felt that having stuffed up almost everything he touched, Beattie promoted Bleigh to succeed him, as he wanted someone even more incompetent than himself in the job. Anyone even reasonably competent would have fixed many of his blunders, highlighting how bad he was, but I did not realise he wanted to destroy his old party completely.

Surely now Labor will wake up to the fact that trying to buy the womans vote, with lady leaders will not work in the short term. If they want it to work they are going to have to recruit some competent ladies. It would not hurt if they found some competent men at the same time.

So that's 3 totally incompetent Labor governments down, now for us northerners, there is just one bottle red head to go.

Roll on next year, we just might get more Katter party members than labor, we almost did here.