On January 6, 2015, Campbell Newman’s snap election call caught many off guard, including members of his own party. The Liberal National Party candidate to challenge Labor leader Annastacia Palaszczuk in her seat of Inala was overseas. The LNP candidate to face Labor’s Jackie Trad in the seat of South Brisbane had not even been named. In a normally festive time of year, […]
Once upon a time in Qld – The digital archive of the 2015 election campaign: @Qldaah #qldpol
January 7, 2016
Pt 9 of the Qld election blog for 2015 – New premier rising #qldvotes #qldpol @Qldaah
February 11, 2015
(Jump to comments section) Jump to latest blog entry. Welcome to part nine of the Queensland election coverage for 2015. The below entries cover the period from February 10 onwards. To follow the Twitter stream, see #qldvotes. List of Qld election blogs: Jan 06 – Jan 16: Pt 1 Qld election blog 2015. Jan 17 – Jan 21: Pt 2 Qld […]
Pt 8 of the Qld election blog for 2015 – Counting and results #qldvotes #qldpol @Qldaah
February 7, 2015
(Jump to comments section) Jump to latest blog entry. Welcome to part eight the Queensland election coverage for 2015. The below entries cover the period from February 6 onwards. To follow the Twitter stream, see #qldvotes. List of Qld election blogs: Jan 06 – Jan 16: Pt 1 Qld election blog 2015. Jan 17 – Jan 21: Pt 2 Qld […]
Pt 7 of the Qld election blog for 2015 – Counting and results #qldvotes #qldpol @Qldaah
February 4, 2015
(Jump to comments section) Jump to latest blog entry. Welcome to part seven of the Queensland election coverage for 2015. The below entries cover the period from February 3 onwards. To follow the Twitter stream, see #qldvotes. List of Qld election blogs: Jan 06 – Jan 16: Pt 1 Qld election blog 2015. Jan 17 – Jan 21: Pt 2 Qld […]
Pt 6 of the Qld election blog for 2015 – Polling and results #qldvotes #qldpol @Qldaah
February 1, 2015
(Jump to comments section) Jump to latest blog entry. Welcome to part six of the Queensland election coverage for 2015. The below entries cover the period from January 31 onwards. To follow the Twitter stream, see #qldvotes. List of Qld election blogs: Jan 06 – Jan 16: Pt 1 Qld election blog 2015. Jan 17 – Jan 21: Pt 2 […]
Pt 5 Qld election blog 2015 #qldvotes #qldpol: @Qldaah
January 30, 2015
(Jump to comments section) Jump to latest blog entry. Welcome to part five of the Queensland election coverage for 2015. The below entries cover the period from January 29 onwards. To follow the Twitter stream, see #qldvotes. List of Qld election blogs: Jan 06 – Jan 16: Pt 1 Qld election blog 2015. Jan 17 – Jan 21: Pt 2 […]
Pt 4 Qld election blog 2015 #qldvotes #qldpol: @Qldaah
January 26, 2015
(Jump to comments section) Jump to latest blog entry. Welcome to part four of the Queensland election coverage for 2015. The below entries cover the period from January 26 – 28 onwards. To follow the Twitter stream, see #qldvotes. List of Qld election blogs: Jan 06 – Jan 16: Pt 1 Qld election blog 2015. Jan 17 – Jan […]
An archive of The Courier Mail’s front pages during 2015 #qldvotes – #qldpol: @Qldaah
January 24, 2015
On August 22, 2014, The Courier Mail wrote, “THE Courier-Mailwas (sic) last night crowned Australia’s metropolitan daily Newspaper of the Year at the prestigious PANPA industry awards”: Courier-Mail wins Newspaper of the Year 2014 at PANPA awards. The Courier Mail supporting material to the Liberal National Party (LNP) in the 2015 Qld election campaign More of Ros Bates' […]
Pt 3 Qld election blog 2015 – #qldvotes #qldpol: @Qldaah
January 22, 2015
(Jump to comments section) Jump to latest blog entry. Welcome to part three of the Queensland election coverage. The below entries cover the period from January 22 onwards. To follow the Twitter stream, see #qldvotes. List of Qld election blogs: Jan 06 – Jan 16: Pt 1 Qld election blog 2015. Jan 17 – Jan 21: Pt 2 Qld election […]
Quick vids: The sacking of the PCMC and the scent of corruption – #qldvotes #qldpol @Qldaah
January 20, 2015
Last century, former Queensland Premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen used an electoral system called the gerrymander which manipulated the numbers of constituents in electorates in favour of his government. This helped to keep him in power for more than two decades. Gerrymandering was ended after the Fitzgeral Inquiry report was implemented by the Goss Government. In this […]
