Six weeks after a poll timed by the Courier-Mail to catch Labor at an embarrassing moment, Galaxy’s latest 800-sample survey of Queensland voters shows Anna Bligh’s government recovering but still well behind. Labor’s primary vote is 35 per cent, which is up five on the July survey but down seven on the election. The Liberal National Party vote is down five points to 43 per cent on the primary vote (up one on the election), and their two-party lead has narrowed from 59-41 to 54-46. We are told that “some voters switched to the Greens and Independents”.
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Galaxy: 54-46 to LNP in Queensland
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It’s just Queensland Queensland Queensland all the time around here.
Bligh leads Langbroek in the preferred premier stakes – 45% (up from 33%) to 33% (down from 34%).
John-Paul Langbroek has the most minuscule profile of any Australian opposition leader in recent history. He doesn’t even have a photo on his Wikipedia page. But perhaps that’s the secret of his success. At least we hear less stupidity out of his month than Springborg.
J-PL did have about a thousand photos of himself on his website, but yeah, still has profile issues – even Radio Courier Mail clearly and mistakenly introduced Springborg as the Qld Opposition Leader this morning.
J-P is keeping the seat warm for Nicholls.
WA, NT, SA, Tas, ACT all don’t. NSW didn’t till recently.
Bit of a silly comment to make really.
Wikipedia has absurdly strict rules on what photos can be uploaded.
Paul Keating doesn’t have a portrait pic either.
Not really. They’re a copyright free encyclopedia, meaning you can use their content whichever way you want. This extends to photos (for living people anyway).
Uploaded, not downloaded. They can’t have just anything being added as “theirs” without first getting the original owner’s permission. After that, sure, it’s open-slather.
The only pity about this poll is that Queenslanders can’t vote for another three or four years.
Any content on wikipedia is meant to be used and abused as wanted. Apart from some images that cannot be replaced by a free one.
10# They did just vote less than a year ago. I doubt they’d want to go to the polls again yet.
The idea that JPL has a problem because he is not widely known (#4) is crazy. The 2PP is 54-46 in his favour. The person who has a problem is Anna Bligh because she is on track to lose the next election (albeit many years from now). It doesn’t matter if you are the most widely known opposition leader (eg John Howard 1996) or a complete unknown (eg Steve Bracks 1999) – what matters is winning more seats than the other side.
And as long as he stays in an election winning position there isn’t much likelihood that Nicholls or anyone else will be able to remove him.
John,
Sorry mate, you’re chewing at the wrong end of the stick. People simply will not elect as Premier a person that they do not feel they sufficiently know, or a person that they feel is a puppet of another or imminently likely to be replaced as leader by their party.
In the real world, Bligh could call an election tomorrow and the 2PP would be immediately back in favour of the ALP.
I made no comment about Nicholls. The next leader of the LNP will in any case not be from the Urban Private School Nancy Boy faction, but rather from the Agrarian Socialist All Education is a Commie Plot faction.
Wikipedia is not “copyright free”. It’s a multi-author work licensed under a Creative Commons copyright license. Thus, any images used must be compatible with those licensing requirements.
In case anyone’s interested, the above poll showed support for The Greens at 12% & others at 10%.
What a pile of rubbish.
Pile of rubbish is harsh but I also disagree. Steve Bracks is proof that you don’t have to be well known to be elected.
Oh dear, it looks as though the LNP aren’t going to get one seat closer to Government after all.
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26085700-3102,00.html
17 and 18.
Well… now that the world knows that he carted a teddy bear around with him at Uni….. I say again, if an election was called tomorrow and people had to focus on which party has the most credibility, the polling 2PP would be back to neck and neck. The LNP would begin (continue?) eating themselves and Bligh Labor would, most deservedly, win again.
Anna hasn’t missed him in Parliament this morning by the way. My only mild surprise was that Schwarten didn’t turn up in a giant teddy bear costume!
Unbelievable, another computer game banned in Australia:
http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,26086374-5014239,00.html
Keep in mind that most computer gamers are aged 19 – 24.
The Teddy Bear thing is bizarre – must be a dentist kinda thing?
“Any content on wikipedia is meant to be used and abused as wanted. Apart from some images that cannot be replaced by a free one.”
Yes, it is true, as I said, you can download what you like, but you’re missing the point! It needs to be available to be placed on Wikipedia in the first place. We’re talking about why certain photos don’t exist on Wikipedia; that’s because there aren’t many photos around that can be legally put on there to begin with. Putting it onto Wikipedia and taking it off Wikipedia are two entirely different things. Do you see it?
Really? I would have said 12-18 when people don’t have, you know, jobs.