While Queenslanders think the state is heading in the wrong direction, they are much more relaxed about the economy now than they were during the election, as the table below, which measures the relevance of concepts demonstrates.

The Queensland Labor Party has a huge problem. Its voter base is disillusioned and hollowed-out. Normally compared to the published quantitative polls our samples lean to the left. In Queensland they are increasingly leaning to the right. This means that Labor's supporters are demoralised and not prepared to come out for them, and conversely, the LNP's supporters are. energised Judging from our respondents enough have defected from Labor to infer a 5% swing away since the last election. Most are not changing to the LNP, but they are giving first preferences to Greens and not all are returning. The two tables below illustrate this.

According to a media release from the CEO Institute:

Queensland seems to have weathered the worst of the global financial crisis, with 77% of CEOs having positive views on the economy and 60% saying they were likely to hire in the next six months, according to the inaugural CEO Financial Index.

I'm sure that's right because we did the survey. You can download the report by clicking here.

The release continues:

Yesterday The Australian and The Courier Mail ran polls from Newspoll and Galaxy which said the Liberals would lose seats if they rejected Malcolm Turnbull's position on an ETS. They claimed this on the basis of the public's view of global warming. This commentary was unsupportable on the basis of the polling.

Today The Sunday Mail has published polling by Glaxy which shows the public disagreeing with Turnbull's position. How are the polls to be reconciled?

While the quantitative responses to Rudd and Turnbull have stayed fairly stationary, there are some significant qualitative changes. I have marked the concept lists with different colours to show movements in concepts up and down in terms of mentions.