We always knew that Catalbiano had a fight on his hands with a well known former channel nine identity up against him. Chris Bombalas has sent one of the key powerbrokers in the Queensland Liberals back to the private sector, and has sured up Bruce Flegg's leadership at the same time. Beattie's crulest blow has most definetly been robbing the Liberals of one of their future hopes - unless Flegg blossoms with experience, the Liberal resurgence has been put back several years.
Gaven just showed how stupid it is to install National Party candidates as coalition choices in metropolitan seats. The Liberal party is the key to metropolitan seats in South East Queensland - I cannot see a time where the National Party will ever hold more than 20 seats in Queensland again (particularly if compulsory preferencing was introduced).
So in the wash up, has this been another spectacular Beattie victory, driven by a high performing incumbent government? In my view, this could not be further from the truth. This election campaign highlighted how bad the current Queensland Government is, and what is worse, what a poor alternative the voters have been presented in the Springborg - Flegg coalition. Voters are waiting to dump Beattie in a landslide - and given a credible alternative government, the 'baseball bats' will come out....
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