Major parties lay out their election-year plans. How will they get your vote?

We’re one year out from the state election, set to be held on Saturday, October 26, 2024 – and Queensland’s two major political parties have all but fired the starter’s gun on an arguably too-long quasi-campaign this week to mark the milestone.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, hoping to lead Labor to a fourth term, released a video summarising some achievements and longer-term plans.

What do you want political parties and candidates to be talking about as they compete for your vote over the next year? Let us know in the form below.Credit: Nordacious

Opposition leader David Crisafulli, hoping it could be the LNP’s turn to govern the state, has a lengthy “priorities” document.

Expect sit-down interviews, slanging matches in and outside parliament, and more polling. More policies, eventually, too.

But I want to stop here to pause on the starter’s gun metaphor and where it comes from: the idea of an election, and media coverage of it, as a race.

It’s something I hope to try to do differently – with your help.

What I’m more interested in for now is what you, Brisbane Times readers and the region’s broader public, want them to be focused on.

I hope you give some thought to that question, and answer it below.

And I expect this will be only the first of many times myself or others will reach out for insight guiding our coverage across the year ahead.

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