Bligh no Beattie so trouble looms
Sep 24th, 2008 | By David Harper | Category: AustraliaThe Australian: Mid-term revivals are nothing new for Queensland’s conservative parties: in the previous two terms of what was then the Beattie government, mid-term polls showed the ALP in trouble to the extent that it lost heavily in three mid-term by-elections before winning the seats back at a general election.
But there are two major differences between this term and what went before.