Qld politics: Nearly a third think state is heading in wrong direction

She might be preferred premier and Labor leader by a long shot, but Annastacia Palaszczuk faces one worrying development.

A third of Queenslanders believe the state is heading in the wrong direction, a slight increase since the 2020 state election.

A new YouGov poll of more than 1000 people, conducted exclusively for The Courier-Mail, has revealed that 32 per cent of Queenslanders believe the state is heading in the wrong direction, a jump from 27 per cent in October 2020.

Polling revealed 48 per cent of people said the state was heading in the right direction, compared with 54 per cent recorded in 2020.

The percentage of people uncommitted remains stable at 20 per cent, one point higher than recorded in 2020.

For the past two years, the state government has been consumed by the Covid-19 response and Queensland’s economic recovery.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, who was first elected in 2015, will become the state’s fourth-longest-serving premier of Queensland should she serve out this full four-year term, which she has said she will do.

It means she would leapfrog Peter Beattie’s nine-year-plus stint to become Labor’s second-longest-serving premier behind William ­Forgan-Smith, who served nearly 10½ years.

The Courier-Mail last week revealed an integrity scandal has negatively affected Ms Palaszczuk’s personal popularity, with polling revealing her net satisfaction rate had plunged from +30 in 2020 to +14 this month.

The LNP has also closed the gap on the Labor government’s lead in the polls, pulling support from minor parties to poll better now than its disappointing result at the 2020 election.

Labor now leads the two-party-preferred vote at 52 per cent to the LNP’s 48 per cent.

At the 2020 election, Labor polled 53.2 per cent to win, compared with the LNP’s 46.8 per cent.