Queenslanders have long been in the habit of backing one major party at state elections and the other major party in federal elections.
They’d never admit it publicly but federal Labor has been preparing for more than a year for the defeat of the Queensland state government, which has been in power since Annastacia Palaszczuk’s extraordinary win in 2015.
It remained to be seen if Crisafulli has done enough to win 13 seats to secure a majority of 47 seats in the unicameral Queensland parliament - after his underwhelming performance on the campaign trail and a damaging debate over the state’s abortion laws. Through the long years of the Howard government, for example, former premier Peter Beattie mostly led the state and it was during the Gillard government that Campbell Newman was elected. Newman survived just a single term before turfed out, and a state Labor government ruled through the rest of the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison years.
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