Federal election blowout leaves Queensland Premier with a ticking time bomb

The doomsday clock is now ticking for Annastacia Palaszczuk’s broken Labor government in Queensland following ScoMo’s win in the unwinnable election, with the ALP running out of time and excuses, writes Des Houghton.

THE doomsday clock is now ticking for Annastacia Palaszczuk’s broken Labor government in Queensland.

With a state election due next year the ALP is running out of time and excuses.

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The Palaszczuk experiment has been an abject failure across health and highways, education, public transport and the economy.

Job creation is poor, business confidence is down and the unionised public service is ballooning out of control.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Milton Dick cast their vote at Inala State School. Picture: AAP/Image Sarah Marshall

A juvenile jail fail follows the rail fail.

The Queensland Government’s handling, or rather the miss—handling of the Adani Carmichael mine divided the state. Along the way it exposed a Labor government at the mercy of mendacious, finger-pointing activists from GetUp! and the Green-Left who are trying to tell Queenslanders how to behave and what to do with their assets.

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Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labor Party Bill Shorten. Picture: Scott Barbour/Getty Images

ScoMo won the unwinnable election because Labor had too many hidden agendas.

Bill Shorten attempt to divide the country along class lines failed miserably.

Credit for the jaw-dropping Morrison victory must also go to Clive Palmer’s UAP, and Pauline Hanson’s One Nation whose preferences helped repel Labor.

A swing of the same magnitude against Labor we saw in Queensland in the federal poll would almost certainly sweep Labor from office.

The blue-throated finch may be an albatross around her neck.

At the next state election the ALP seats of Bundaberg, Mansfield, Mt Ommaney, Maryborough, Springwood, Mundingburra, McConnell and Cooper would be the first to fall.

Australia's newly elected Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Picture: Saeed KHAN / AFP

Banished to the political wilderness would be key ministers including Grace Grace, Coralee O’Rourke and Mick de Brenni. Even Kate Jones, considered a future premier by sections of the ALP, would lose her seat.

More bad news Labor: The LNP Opposition, led Deb Frecklington who grew up on a cattle property, has emerged as a competent fighting force ready for battle.

Originally published as Federal election blowout leaves Queensland Premier with a ticking time bomb