Both major parties are launching their campaigns today.
You can watch the LNP launch live here.
I can’t find anything on Anna4Qld about the launch. Any tips as to whether and where it’s on the web would be greatly appreciated!
Update: The first press report of the LNP launch is in. The Borg has promised $726 million worth of infrastructure, including major public transport initiatives in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast, and Malcolm Turnbull and Campbell Newman have joined the attack on the Bligh government.
Update: Anna Bligh has promised to create 100 000 new jobs over the next three years, many in Green themed industries.
Update: More specifics on the Labor launch and policies here, and the Gold Coast angle on the Borg’s rapid transport promise here.
20 Comments
Update: The first press report of the LNP launch is in. The Borg has promised $726 million worth of infrastructure, including major public transport initiatives in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast, and Malcolm Turnbull and Campbell Newman have joined the attack on the Bligh government.
Update: Anna Bligh has promised to create 100 000 new jobs over the next three years, many in Green themed industries.
Update: More specifics on the Labor launch and policies here, and the Gold Coast angle on the Borg’s rapid transport promise here.
I like some of this; science programs, river and reef protection, more land-clearing cutbacks.
Yep, there’s some attractive stuff there. I’m not sure there’s enough time left to sell it, though. I think the “no policies” stance at the beginning of the campaign was really dumb. It didn’t work, and now there’s only a short time left to highlight the positive promises.
Is Mr Springborg’s $240 million for the GC rts – new money on top of the $550 million already announced by the Govt. ? Is it to install a “3rd rail” for light rail as supported by the GC council?
I guess Fiona Simpson will explain all when she is interviewed on 612 ABC radio tomorrow morning.
The LNP is specifically promising to add carriages to six-car trains, they don’t say how they’ll fund the new long platforms these cars will need. All they’ve done otherwise is commit to a program already promised by the ALP.
Talk about a campaign launch – did anyone see the Sunday Tele in Sydney this weekend? I bet Warick Capper would be shaking his head that his status as the only p*rn star in Beaudesert has been lost.
“Please Explain : Exclusive: Hanson’s Nude Photo Betrayal”
For those of you who didn’t get sick by the thought of that- be thankful you didn’t have to pick up the paper!!
Now this could have been a nice little campaign launch for Pauline. I wonder though, how much dirt can people seriously dish out? But as they say, any publicity is good publicity. [At least she's not doing car number plate schemes.]
Mark
The ALP had two goals in the early campaign, to reduce the number of people who thought they would win – thus reducing a protest vote and to create uncertainty about Mr Springborg. I posit that the latest Galaxy Poll shows they have been succesfull?
We’ll see, ruawake. 64 down to 58 is a step in the right direction…
Very interesting that Cambell Newman said at the LNP launch that not only did he successfully carry out a 2.7% efficiency saving when he came to power but he did it with a hostile council and the guy who carried it out was Tim Nichols who can now do it for the LNP again at the state level…
Well that one made sure we r awake, ruawake! Certainly a new slant on things I’d not considered. How do you explain some of the crap campaigns in the suburbs then?
Labor’s lauch looked like a bit of a yawn. The members didn’t look very excited about their dwindling prospects. (The best quote the tv could get from Rudd was that he was pleased to be home.)
Mark I think Bligh was scared that if they told the public where her launch was the public might turn up and protest. Again all about control and spin… (Also if they let people watch live they would have sent them to sleep. Who was that country performer!? Was that to get the rural vote?)
Susan, ask some Brisbane ratepayers how they liked their 300% rate hike then, if Newman is just a whiz financial genius. I know some rusted on Tory voters very unhappy with that decision!
The rest of your hyperbole isn’t worth responding to.
So its Greenie Anna! Forget the “Smart State” on the car plates its now to be the “Solar State” And the Traveston Dam?? What Dam???? Is the ALP gonna build a dam????? Yep not a mention.
Its obvious the ALP is furiously –and desperately–spinning to Greens voters to get preferences it needs to cling to office. How many will be gullible enough to take the bait, given the ALPs past performances? Come Saturday we shall see if Barnum’s Law is still operating: You can fool all of the voters some of the time, some of the voters all of the time and a majority of voters come polling time.
@11 Susan – I see in the Fin Review last Thursday “Four economists and a public policy expert contacted by the Australian Financial REview yesterday agreed the $1 billion in savings were achievable after 11 years of expanding government in QLD…
3% is not really a big number. That’s what the private sector is achieving. It is possible to do for at least 10 years…”
It would seem to be reasonable that you could achieve significant efficiency gains not by reducing services, but reducing administrative costs.”
Scot @14 I think you will find that rates rise was to bring the million dollar unit owners into a bit of parity with the rest of it. You aren’t suggesting that we go easy on the rich are you?
So does anyone have anything to say about the launches themselves? I can read about lists of promises in the paper… What do the launches say about the parties?
Joe: these people are not rich and their apartment is not worth a million dollars.
Given that a fairly standard house nowadays costs a good part of a million dollars – anyway rates are levied on LAND VALUE.
Joe I think it is interesting how Labor try to put on sack cloth in public at their launch and have an event that would send one to sleep. Either that our their party just doesn’t have any real fight left in it. Maybe the few members remaining are starting to get sick of all the jobs for the boys, like Bligh’s wife. Beattie shows that once they leave the spot light they aren’t scared to show that they are realy heads deep in the trough. But as the Australian said “austerity is the new black” and Labor were heavy spinning that theme yesterday.