Queensland is at a crossroads – but a Labor defeat won’t guarantee an easy run for the LNP

The Queensland premier, Steven Miles, and the opposition leader, David Crisafulli, during an election debate at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre. Photograph: Darren England/AAP

Too often we say an election is historically significant but, in the case of Queensland’s state poll this Saturday, the Sunshine State really is at a crossroads.

If the Liberal-National party wins office (as all public opinion polls over the past two years have indicated), it will be the conservatives’ first election victory from the opposition benches in 13 years, and just the second in 67 years.