David Crisafulli to be sworn in as Queensland Premier after election win

David Crisafulli and his deputy will be sworn in as the heads of Queensland’s first LNP government in a decade as the clock ticks on a lofty list of promises to be met within 100 days.

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Premier-elect David Crisafulli and his deputy will be sworn in as the heads of Queensland’s first LNP government in a decade as the clock ticks on a lofty list of promises to be met within 100 days.

Mr Crisafulli and Deputy Premier-elect Jarrod Bleijie will visit Government House on Monday as the pair set about administering Queensland while waiting for a handful of knife-edge seats to be decided.

And the 100 day countdown timer on a long list of ambitious promises — including new youth crime laws by Christmas and a review of Olympic Games infrastructure — will begin ticking over once the full LNP cabinet is sworn in as early as the middle of the week.

Mr Crisafulli, only the third LNP or National Premier in the state in 30 years, woke before sunrise Sunday to hit the gym before meeting with senior staff, then heading to 1 William St to sack Director-General and former Labor powerbroker Mike Kaiser.

Despite the LNP’s full-throated attacks of Mr Kaiser over the years, Mr Crisafulli in victory described the outgoing top bureaucrat as “gracious” and thanked him for preparing an incoming brief set to serve as the almanac of the new government.

Mr Crisafulli made special mention of the LNP’s promise to have “adult crime, adult time” laws in place by Christmas, promising two parliamentary sitting weeks by the end of the year and full scrutiny of the proposed changes.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese reached out to Queensland’s newest Premier, with Mr Crisafulli revealing he raised the issue of Bruce Highway funding and a way forward on the Olympic and Paralympic Games venues in their 20 minute phone call.

“I want Queenslanders to know that I’m on their side, and I’m going into bat for Queensland, and whatever the colour of government is in Canberra that’s what they’re going to get from us,” he said.

Queensland has delivered a majority LNP government in a state where Labor has governed for 30 of the last 35 years.

And Mr Crisafulli said the results “exceeded anything we could have expected”, describing the win as climbing a mountain while weighed down with a backpack in the sleeting snow.

“It was a big hurdle to overcome, and those results exceeded anything we could have expected,” he said.

“We understand the role that’s ahead of us and the duty that rests on our shoulders.”

Mr Crisafulli did not shy away from having one eye on securing a second term, noting as he had on election night that the LNP had not won back-to-back elections since 1986.

“If you believe in the values of your political movement, you believe in generational government,” he said.

“Because government allows you to shape the kind of state that you want for your kids.

“It’s important that we are a good government and that we do what we say we’re going to do, and we don’t do what we said we wouldn’t do.”

David Crisafulli wants to hit the ground running. Picture Lachie Millard

Mr Crisafulli made multiple promises over the campaign to keep his cabinet unchanged if elected to government, but on Sunday would not be drawn on what his frontbench would precisely look like before he had spoken to individual ministers.

As of Sunday afternoon the LNP had secured a total of 49 seats according to the Sky News Australia decision desk, in a boost of 14 electorates that came amid a two-party preferred swing of about 6 per cent to the incoming government.

The LNP’s win came at the end of a brutal four-week campaign that resulted in the party squandering an emphatic lead as it struggled to bed down alarmism over its views on abortion.

The LNP also ran a highly-centralised campaign that party insiders said made them slow to act and stifled the ability for candidates to work their communities on local issues.

Jarrod Bleijie and David Crisafulli will be sworn in today. Picture Lachie Millard

Mr Crisafulli warned in the wash-up that blatant mistruths could not become part of Queensland’s modern politics.

“We are not the US, and the difference between us and the US is because of compulsory voting, we have the great ability to speak to the majority rather than to the extremes,” he said.

“We can’t have elections done on fear and things that are being campaigned on where one side knows is blatantly untrue.

“You can’t do that. And we will call out those inconsistencies, and we will do what we say we were going to do, and we won’t do what the former government alleged we were going to do.”

Originally published as David Crisafulli to be sworn in as Queensland Premier after election win