Sorry onthebeach, I'm afraid I can't accept your assurance that Annastacia is smart. Of course you don't have to be quick witted to be smart. Many smart folk I know take a little time before voicing an opinion or idea, but I'm afraid, you'll never convince me Annastacia is one of them

You can see the gears churning behind the eyes, even when she is just trying to remember what she has been told to say.

Campbell Newman went to the poll with debt reduction and 4 % unemployment, has he kept that promise or has he done an Abbott.

If the LNP loses this election with the majority they received at the last election would show something is terribly wrong in QLD.

He is not the most popular leader, so he must have stood on some toes and made some not so good decisions. QLD are still waiting for policies, maybe he is standing alone, some say he is not facing the normal people. If LNP come out of this they will most likely pick a new leader.

Will be interesting to see how people react to the NP, and Clive. The NP got a fair buffeting in VIC elections.

Federal politics will not add to anyones chances, we are yet to get a budget passed, while working on the next one.

Queenslanders voted for the LNP because it meant he would become premier.That provided a powerful boost for his campaign to win Ashgrove.

Times have changed, because he has failed to live up to voters' expectations and his first term has been mired in bad decisions and good decisions that soon became own goals.The consequence is that many voters, this time around, will not support the LNP.

You can expect many hard working LNP MPs to hide the cheesy photographs they once had with their leader; they know their best chance of re-election is on their own electoral performances, not on the performance of their state party or its leader.

But it also brings the question of leadership into the frame - and in a battle where Campbell Newman has anointed himself the heart and head of the government, voters have a right to know what happens to the party if he's not invited back.

If Campbell Newman loses Ashgrove, the LNP will still win government. That is almost a certainty.
At the 2012 election, Newman won the seat of Ashgrove by 5.7% over Labor’s Kate Jones. The statewide 2PP at that election was about 63-37 to the LNP. With polls now at about a 50-50 tie, the swing to Labor is currently 13%, much more than Newman’s Ashgrove margin.
Maybe like Abbott. Newman always intended to do enough damage in one term

This State Election is becoming a real joke-fest.

A quick analysis of the state of the contestants reveals:

Gross discontent with Campbell Newman`s "Assets Sale/Lease" fiasco,
whether assets are sold or leased, it amounts to the same thing, a savage increase in operating costs to provide massive profits for leaseholder (for 99 years).

Sheer stupidity in removing Dr Bruce Flegg as candidate for Moggil and "anointing" Dr Christian Rowan as candidate, (a person at best known as "a little strange indeed").

Labor: whose only achievement in recent times has been creating total chaos and racking up mountains of debt, offering no soluble plans for debt reduction.

The Greens: a rabid pack of jibbering idiots exercising a total loss of touch with reality.

PUP: a bunch of political opportunists, whose boss wants to be a self-styled Monarch!

Katter`s mob: 0ne minute they are looking good, and the next, they shoot themselves in the foot, whilst bumping into each other.

Then there is PAULINE: desperately grasping at any opportunity to hear her own voice once again,....please explain?

No doubt there will also be a plethora of well-meaning, but totally insane individuals, to add a touch of colour to a totally insane waste of taxpayers` money

All in all, things are NOT looking too bright for us, the people who ultimately have to foot the bill for all things extravegant.

Mickey, Mickey, wherefor are you Mickey?

Hasbeen,

I was relying on the Labor leader's academic attainment.

You are right that her interviews are all predictable superficial narrative without a glimmer of original thought. One wonders how much influence her wagon-riding had on her progress in life.

One thing that the LNP stuffed up and she has zeroed in on, is the withdrawal of funds from TAFEs.

Bruce Flegg was mentioned earlier. He embarrassed the government over a matter of trust - not declaring conflict of interest involving his son's lobbying to him. I regard that as intolerable. If a senior minister, any manager, cannot always display high principles and ethics, s/he should resign.

Labor's first strike to win Election 2015 is to promise to re-introduce a former Labor job creation program that was dumped when Campbell Newman became premier.

In Cairns on Wednesday - where youth unemployment is 21.3 per cent - Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk promised to restore Labor's Skilling Queenslanders for Work program.
"What we are seeing in Cairns is youth unemployment at over 20 per cent.

Annastacia Palaszczuk meets locals in Cairns on the first full day of campaigning for the State Election. Photo: Tony Moore
"These are some of the worst figures in the nation.
"That is nearly 4000 young people in Cairns without a job
"This is a government that said it would deliver 4 per cent unemployment and now it is closer to 7 per cent," she said opening her campaign in Brisbane on Tuesday.

Queenslanders have been given just four days to ensure their enrolment was up-to-date, following Premier Campbell Newman's decision to call a snap state election for January 31.

New enrolments, or changes to existing enrolments, must be received by the Electoral Commission of Queensland by 5pm on January 10, this Saturday, to be valid for the 2015 state election.
That is one way of peeing people off, another is, it’s holiday time.