- Jan 12, 2008
- 8,937
- 9,400
- AFL Club
- Brisbane Lions

- Other Teams
- Chelsea, Fiorentina, Aus. Cricket
Is that entirely right?
Labor lost the election in Queensland. Plain and simple. And Queensland reacted to the anti Adani stuff which was not Labor. It was the Greens.
I agree labor overreached with their reform platform. But it is a fact the Australian voting public were too selfish and too self interested to accept those proposed reforms notwithstanding the reforms were and are still needed.
Labor had a margin for error and they used it way too much and went way to close to the line. If that is arrogance you are referring too then I agree.
But the election was still lost in Queensland over a mine that will never happen.
I think this is an oversimplification.
Yes, the state ALP's dithering over Adani, the widespread dislike for QLD ALP outside Brisbane, and Bob Brown's idiotic convoy helped to torpedo the ALP anywhere from Rockhampton upwards. But Adani isn't really a big deal in Brisbane - which might explain why the Greens got a big boost down here.
In the SEQ region, I reckon Shorten's personal lack of popularity, ON/UAP, the childcare wage hikes and the franking credit issues helped to kill their chances. The wage hikes would have scared small business owners; the franking credit issues would have scared retirees and quite a few families. Small business owners and retirees matter in this neck of the woods.
Being hostile towards live export wouldn't have helped QLD agriculture either.
FWIW, I personally voted ALP and have not been very happy with Abbott/Morrison/Turnbull. But I can see why other Queenslanders didn't vote that way.



