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Queensland LNP spies hope for a revival in federal by-election win
Queensland’s Liberal National party is unlikely to deviate from the key issues of cost-of-living, health and crime as the major parties jostle to contextualise the Fadden by-election.
With the next state election 15 months away, the LNP opposition leader, David Crisafulli, told reporters on Sunday that he was keen to cast the result as proof of a disconnect between governments and voters.
The message that Queenslanders sent overwhelmingly was for governments, both here and in Canberra, to do a hell of a lot better than what they’re doing.
He mentioned cost of living as a key issue affecting people alongside the health and crime matters his party consistently highlights from opposition.
There is a disconnect with those issues and a government … not willing to admit the crisis situation that they’re in.
The Labor camp has a different interpretation of a likely two-party preferred swing of between two and three per cent for the victorious LNP candidate, Cameron Cardwell.
The Queensland state transport minister, Mark Bailey, said in a tweet on Sunday the two per cent swing in the comfortable LNP seat is “extraordinarily low” by historical standards.
Especially with such an unpopular retiring MP in Stuart Robert and a decade-entrenched local councillor replacing him.
The Fadden result follows Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s dismissal of polling data showing the Queensland government was on track to lose next year’s election.
- AAP
Updated
