QLD finds itself staring down the barrel of another term of labor government. Business people, educated people, investors emit a silent groan of resigned frustration, but the fact is that the unemployed, the union workforce and the greenies outnumber us.
The Electoral Commission needs a roasting for allowing the ridiculous preferetial voting system to result in the second most popular party winning power at both this election and the last federal election. Our ballot papers didn't require us to allocate our own preferences – all that was required was a single number one. Preferences were allocated (I believe) according to the instructions of the candidates. Anyone who voted green, actually voted Labor. Did they realise this? I understand the reason for preferential voting but I disagree very strongly with the automatic allocation of preferences according to political bargaining going on behind the scenes. How different might Australia be today, had preference votes not swung election results to the party who in all reality was only the second most popular choice. This is not democracy. The most popular candidate did not win in many seats.
Roast to the Australian Electoral Commission.
Democracy is unfair to 49% of the Population…
And what would Liberal have done differently compared to Labour if they had gained power ? Apart from telling different campaign lies ?
My main gripe with Labor at a state level is their tendency to pander to the SE corner of QLD and forget everyone else, in particular the farming communities. They seemingly do anything to satisfy the green agenda, at great expense to agricultural production. Just before the election they placed a moratorium on the clearing of REGROWTH. Now graziers in areas where they have maintained grazing lands at great expense are no longer permitted to maintain them. Most seriously affected by regrowth are graziers who have done the right thing environmentally, and only selectively cleared land. Graziers who took a more damaging course of action in clearing every tree off the place (if they were permitted) will find regrowth is slower to occur.
NLP, while failing to really appear ready to run the state, at least might have spent their budget a little more evenly across the state and been less keen to do whatever the greens tell them. Afterall, it is only because of the greens that labor has power, so they have to do as they're told. Environmental management is important, but so is productivity. The bush feels constantly assaulted by Labor, and regularly indulges in fantasys about forming it's own state.
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