Television journalists keep telling us Anna Bligh will call an election as soon as the kids go back to school. I don't think this is correct. She is so widely hated that I think she will wait until after the council elections, in the faint hope that most of the electorate's wrath will be visited on them.
Councils have no Constitutional Power and most of the decisions we don't like are due to financial impacts created by state and federal governments without any compensation.
Campbell Newman is pushing hard for a state election to be held before council elections. He clearly knows he will pick up more seats at the state level if the electorate has not already unloaded its bile on councils. The chance of the LNP losing control of the Brisbane City Council seems negligible.
Both Labor and LNP are trying to minimise the impact of both Katter's Australian Party and the Democratic Labor Party, because Bob Katter MP (Independent QLD) and Senator John Madigan (DLP Victoria) have come out strongly in support of Australian farmers and manufacturers, and do not support a Carbon Tax, along with a lengthening dole queue.
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Wednesday, 18 January 2012 23:38
Rod Foster
I cannot imagine why the Queensland voter would return a Labor Government with Bligh at its head. The Labor mob has been so bad that it should be turfed out for a long while. At least NSW people have the sense to throw out incompetent governments.
Councils have no Constitutional Power and most of the decisions we don't like are due to financial impacts created by state and federal governments without any compensation.
Campbell Newman is pushing hard for a state election to be held before council elections. He clearly knows he will pick up more seats at the state level if the electorate has not already unloaded its bile on councils. The chance of the LNP losing control of the Brisbane City Council seems negligible.
Both Labor and LNP are trying to minimise the impact of both Katter's Australian Party and the Democratic Labor Party, because Bob Katter MP (Independent QLD) and Senator John Madigan (DLP Victoria) have come out strongly in support of Australian farmers and manufacturers, and do not support a Carbon Tax, along with a lengthening dole queue.