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As Campbell Newman yesterday outlined one of the more goofy political strategies Australia has seen, there was one stark impression: The bloke himself didn’t come across as goofy.
Newman, the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, was explaining to reporters how he planned to be the Liberal National Party (LNP) State Opposition Leader without having to actually be in the Queensland Parliament.
In about a year’s time he would run for a seat Labor has held for 22 years, and in the meantime a surrogate elected last night would be the official Opposition Leader. But actually, the Opposition Leader would be Campbell Newman.
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The Liberal-National Party in Queensland is planning something so ballsy that it leaves Tony Abbott’s Speedos - and his perceived political mileage of wearing them - looking a little empty.
Queensland’s Conservatives are in meltdown today as Campbell ``Messiah’’ Newman announced he would resign from his post as Brisbane Lord Mayor and run for a state seat in the next election.
Newman will run a US Presidential-like campaign by standing as the Leader of the LNP after he is pre-selected (already a done deal), despite not being elected to Parliament.
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craig says:
totally agree with all of it, Bligh has been wedged , she has to go early , newman is the best campigner Queensland has ever seen. He camigned for two years before the Brisbane city election . A long campign will give him time to expose more waste and creat… Read more »
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craig says:
kate may visit schools , but she is style over substance , i cant think of anything she has done, yes she turns up , but thats it is Read more »
Liberal MP Peter Dutton should have known better than to whinge about support from the good people of Dickson – he could’ve asked his predecessor Cheryl Kernot about that one.
On election night 1998 - when it looked like her attempt to go from Democrat leader in the Senate to a Labor MP was going to end in spectacular failure - Kernot had a famous dummy spit live on the ABC about the quality of seat she had been given by the Labor Party :
“Well, I’ll just say this—Mary Delahunty is in Parliament,” referring to the fact that the Victorian MP had been given a safe seat when entering politics earlier that year. Of course, Kernot did end up pulling ahead that night and serving one term as the member for Dickson but got rolled three years later by none other than current opposition health spokesman Peter Dutton.
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DJG says:
What a hoot this is. Chalk up Dickson for Labor in 2010. Will the Qlnd. Police take him back? Mr Dutton was the epitome of the ugly Howard years. I am sure Keating is relishing this bloke ‘doing himself—- slowly’. Read more »
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Darren says:
Sorry E - I must have a lobotomy and join a Party so I can understand how they operate Read more »
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