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Labor can take no comfort from Queensland election

ALP candidates won over many traditional Green voters on Saturday, but there is little sign of the party picking up federal seats in early 2025.

John BlackElection analyst

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Labor lost the Queensland State election on Saturday, an event that had been widely anticipated and understood by everyone except outgoing Labor Premier Steve Miles, whose concession speech weirdly didn’t concede he’d lost.

Instead, he used the election night platform to urge his diminishing group of Caucus colleagues to re-elect him Leader, presumably so he could lose again in four years’ time.

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John Black is a former Labor senator for Queensland. He is executive chairman of profiling company Australian Development Strategies, and of Education Geographics.

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