Labor's seemingly impossible task has given Steven Miles the liberty to take more risks in the Queensland election campaign.
When was the last time a premier sat on some playground equipment among a group of kindy kids and let them mess up his hair, jump on his back, poke him in the eyes and tickle him in the rough way kids love to do?
Earlier, he sat with a 4 year-old discussing the intricacies of his impressive mullet hairstyle which the child proudly told the premier his mother had cut for him.Steven Miles met with one four-year-old discussing the intricacies of his impressive mullet hairstyle.Miles has dressed down, played around and cut an authentic, relatable figure these past four weeks of the Queensland election campaign."One: Nobody will ever call me a small target.
His preferred campaigning method was standing alongside carefully vetted voters who had been broken into, had their cars stolen or torched or playing a sport — insert tennis/netball/touch/basketball depending on the day and location — with a very select few to promote the message of the day. Given the hopelessly impossible task ahead of him, according to the polls, Steven Miles has had nothing lose."Labor has had the freedom to really swing the bat, play its own shots because the polls suggested they were heading for a serious loss," he says."He has been an average performer for a long time, he has improved over the last two months.
"Steven Miles has incumbency so he can relax and he still looks the part. David Crisafulli still needs to convince voters he can be trusted."Like a band with a short playlist Referring to the opposition leader's surprise announcement on Tuesday that "yes" he did support a woman's right to choose when it came to abortion laws:
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