Speculation about Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s future in the role has ramped up, with reported rumblings in Labor ranks forcing a senior cabinet minister to publicly defend his leader.
senior Labor figures were convinced Palaszczuk should step aside before October to give her successor time to make the role their own, but there was no active challenge to her leadership.
Asked if there should be term limits such as in the United States, where presidents can only serve eight years – the same length as Palaszczuk’s premiership – de Brenni dismissed suggestions she may have become complacent. De Brenni, from Labor’s dominant Left faction, insisted there would be no change before the “only poll that matters” on October 26 next year.“There won’t be a change of leadership in our party, we’re going to the election with the team that we’ve got and speculation about that is just a distraction from what we ought to be doing,” he said.
However, there has not been a contested Labor leadership ballot since 1982, when Keith Wright, who would later be convicted of child rape, defeated Ed Casey. Every party leader in the four decades since has been elected unopposed.
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