Steven Miles is treading a fine line between acknowledging his legacy in the Palaszczuk government and trying to sell his "new" government, write Rachel Riga and Jessica van Vonderen.
But one of Labor’s toughest challenges remains a series of poor poll results, which indicates voters aren’t happy with the status quo and want a change of government at the upcoming state election.
Unless you are voting for the Greens, I don’t think the alternative government will be much better.
Cost of living is a real big issue for everyone, and his statement that we can “expect cost-of-living relief in this year’s state budget” is a nice sentiment, but I don’t believe it will be long term sustainable. While it is nice getting free money to pay for energy and other things, I think the government will need to invest more time and money to driving cost down for everything they can control. Whether the state and federal government’s work together to do this investment or they figure something out at a state level, if the average Queenslander doesn’t see some meaningful and tangible change that they can understand, Labor’s approval will probably continue to drop.
Palaszczuk resignation may have been an attempt to shuffle peoples attention away from Labor old to Labor new, they still hold the baggage from the last 8-9 years of government, which will be hard to shake off. I wish them the best of luck.
Unless you are voting for the Greens, I don’t think the alternative government will be much better.
Cost of living is a real big issue for everyone, and his statement that we can “expect cost-of-living relief in this year’s state budget” is a nice sentiment, but I don’t believe it will be long term sustainable. While it is nice getting free money to pay for energy and other things, I think the government will need to invest more time and money to driving cost down for everything they can control. Whether the state and federal government’s work together to do this investment or they figure something out at a state level, if the average Queenslander doesn’t see some meaningful and tangible change that they can understand, Labor’s approval will probably continue to drop.
Palaszczuk resignation may have been an attempt to shuffle peoples attention away from Labor old to Labor new, they still hold the baggage from the last 8-9 years of government, which will be hard to shake off. I wish them the best of luck.