Importing US-style polarisation over social issues into Australian politics is not in the national interest.
was not the landslide predicted at the start of the campaign. Liberal National Party leader David Crisafulli mishandled questions about what a conservative government in Queensland might mean for women’s access to abortion that surfaced in the final days. That, along with Premier Steven Miles’ last ditch big spending, debt-funded cost-of-living relief giveaways such as free school lunches, appears to have helped stave off what was shaping up to be a wipeout.
Yet a 7 per cent swing to the LNP, which will give new premier Mr Crisafulli a comfortable majority in Queensland’s one-chamber parliament, is a convincing result. Especially as the fracturing of the electorate makes it harder for the major parties to assemble the broad-based coalitions required for election thumpings. That is underlined by the city-country divide revealed by Queensland’s election map.
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