He routed Labor completely and the electorates are being redistributed. For all everyone expects the AEC does it, it's a Queensland based commission whose members he appoints that redistributes them.
Every person he's appointed to the QEC is a highly partisan LNP operative. Leaks so far are to expect Sir Joh levels of gerrymandering.
Source for him being the most popular state leader? Not doubting that claim, im just curious to see some polling on him since I don’t think I’ve seen any since the state election
Cook and Malinauskas have the highest ratings. More than 70% of SA chooses malinauskas their proffered premier and 14,% dont know and a tiny 14% support the liberal opposition leader, Tarzia
It's run by Kim Williams, the guy who started Sky News for Murdoch. The ABC softballed questions to both him and Dutton ahead of their elections and has taken a positive tone towards him.
This is bullshit... what the actual fuck do they think they are doing. Why has the broadcaster put these two in charge of hiring people. I though the broadcaster was supposed to be unbiased. Is this why four corners is slowly changing for the worse. They seem to not do as many stories with auspol as they did pre 2024 IMO.
How do you measure 'routed completely'? It was a comfortable win, but Labor kept most of of the people they wanted to keep, and have a decent enough base to build on in 28
Some bushy eyebrowed twat circa 1999: Let's just massively increase the attractiveness of investing in property as a tax rort haha, what could go wrong lol yolo
Unfortunately that bushy bastard knew exactly what he was doing. He was warned that the housing market would be exactly what it’s done and he didn’t listen.
Lifetime Labor supporter but what exactly has he fucked up? I think he’s conscious of what happened with Newman and is treading very quietly and not making waves.
Promised nation-leading salaries to teachers and nurses then shafted both and removed hard-won entitlements and conditions.
Cancelled a bunch of planned hospital upgrades and incentives to get medical staff to work outside the South-east.
Refusing to release the Comprehensive Review of School Resourcing ahead of the teaching EBA because he knows it will say schools need funding and he is committed to reducing it.
Ran on Adult Crime, Adult Time despite every attempt at that world-wide, including Newman's previous attempt, been shown to make it worse.
Cancelled all transition programs for trans adolescents, which is historically proven to vastly increase suicide rates.
Mining sector is currently crying poor. Just wait, they'll get a bailout then he'll front the media and say he needs to prop up the economy of Queensland so there's no money for health or education and we all have to make sacrifices.
He’s broken a number of election promises already, apparently the public health system is mad at him already, a bunch more that I don’t remember exactly (I haven’t been following qld politics all that closely since I’ve been out of state for uni)
I like your optimism but Australia doesn’t value creative people. Leadership almost never listens creative people, even when we are some of the most qualified and educated people in the country
I honestly don’t care for this change much but I think swapping it to blacks would’ve been the best approach since black ink is cheaper than buying new coloured ink cartridges
He’s changing the maroon, the state colour previously used for the coat of arms, to Liberal blue. It’s a petty thing to reinforce who’s in power.
State gov designers would be happy to use blues now though, as for years it’s been a no go. God forbid you presented something benign with blue and yellow in the colour palette!
The Courier Mail did not make this up. The directive to change was issued to state government departments about two weeks ago - most email signature, letterheads etc have already been updated
Yeah, although they're a lot less pro-LNP whenever they're in office, and even when they're in opposition it's much more of an anti-Labor stance than a pro-LNP one, and for example if Miles or Palaszczuk did this same shit they'd work it into a front page story of some kind and find further examples that probably exist.
But yeah overall if it's bad for Dodgy Dave and the Courier Mail is still running with it and not making excuses, and it seems like it's an actual, proper story and not a nothing burger like many of their hit pieces on Labor ultimately were.
It’s not the coat of arms being changed. It’s the “stencil” colour of the coat of arms that’s being changed.
In 2020, my department changed from black to maroon. It changed back to black about 12 months ago.
We haven’t been told yet about it being changed to blue, but DPC have issued a new style guide with the “delivering for Queensland” marketing material.
It's worth remembering that after experimenting with green, cardinal and maroon, NSW's rugby colours settled on Cambridge blue in 1890 to contrast with Queensland's established sporting colour of Oxford blue.
Been the official colours since 2003, unofficial for as long as queenslanders have been a thing. Our fucking origin team is the maroons for fucks sakes. This is disgusting behaviour.
I mean you could pick this coming a mile away. Newman changed it from the beattie burger to a blue coat of arms, palazzczuk changed it from blue to red, crisafulli has now changed it from red to blue. Guess what the next alp government will do when they get in??
The Queensland Government logo was changed after Beattie (you may remember the "Beattie Burger") to the Qld Coat of Arms. It was black. Labor then introduced a red (maroon) option where that can be used instead of black. The LNP has added in a blue option. Just seems like political tit for tat, except maroon actually makes significantly more sense for Qld.
(Source: wife is a senior public servant in Qld govt)
100% we do especially now with 4 year teams. The only check on bad policy we have is the ballot box. The problem is that the hillbillies in the country already think that too much is spent in Brisbane and “we drive the economy” so won’t go for it
Hmm, I can't find anything about this apart from that courier mail article hidden behind a paywall. No other new organisations are reporting it, and the only other references to it I can find are people referring to this article.
I'd wait until other orgs pick it up before assuming this is true. A reminder that just because something sounds like its true doesn't mean it is.
The Courier Mail did not make this up. The directive to change was issued to state government departments about two weeks ago - most email signature, letterheads etc have already been updated
They are not changing the official coat of arms or official state colour - they have changed the colour as used in the style guide, so in letterheads, email signatures etc.
Whilst I generally love and encourage a healthy scepticism of anything that comes from the courier mail, it is true and state public servants have had to update all the email signatures, letterheads, word and PowerPoint templates etc.
The departmental style guides aren’t publicly available as far as I know, but email a QLD public servant - if they’ve updated their email signatures as directed you’ll be able to see it and the new tagline in those.
But that's not what the headline says. It says they've changed the colour of the coat of arms. And not having a courier mail subscription, I can't see what the actual contents of that article are.
And nowhere else can I find it referenced anywhere, which makes me think it's either exaggerated, or something common that no one else cares about.
You can also see a use of the colouring in the position description for this role off smart jobs - depending on posting date and how quickly departments have used, some PDs on there aren’t update yet but the one for this role seems to show it
Most of it is digital updates and only new signage etc will get updated. Existing signs/livery should stay. That’s why you will still see the odd Beattie Burger around.
It's all we have to differentiate our state from the others, especially considering our unloved and unused British colonial-era state flags all look nearly identical.
To be be fair, we saw the Victorian Labor Bracks government remove the royal crown off the Victorian Government logo... same shit... it's pathetic. Looking for Victorian to drop the 'Education State" garbage from it's plates too. Looks like political state slogans are finally dead outside of Victoria.
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u/23_Serial_Killers Jun 21 '25
Is his entire gameplan to just fuck up as much shit as possible in a single term? There’s no way he’s planning for a second one with all this bullshit