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I've just written to Mal Brough asking him to consider diverting his talents into State politics in Queensland. Heaven knows, there's little enough competition with Mr Flegg or Mr Seeney for that matter.

Thought some other Queenslanders (and anyone else) might like to do similarly.

Here is his website:
http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/member.asp?id=2K6
 
Politics sure can be depressing when there is a total talent vacuum. Happens frequently in state politics when a dominant figure retires.
 
Julia said:
I've just written to Mal Brough asking him to consider diverting his talents into State politics in Queensland. Heaven knows, there's little enough competition with Mr Flegg or Mr Seeney for that matter.

Thought some other Queenslanders (and anyone else) might like to do similarly.

Here is his website:
http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/member.asp?id=2K6
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Sorry Julia...great thought...but a poor career move for one of the most able politicans we have seen for some time.

Until such time as the Qld coalition can formally and irrevocably agree on a course forward and then stand behind that stance with gusto it's like sending Mal to the abattoir.

That said.. the coalition have got the quality of the herd that they deserve and heaven knows the "gene pool" is less than shallow!

Surely now is the time for the coalition hierarchy to stop squabbling over the deck chairs and recognise that the vessel is going down fast!

Why parachute Mal in to oversee the final disappearance below the water?
 
I agree with Julia.
There is no point waiting.
The Queensland Liberals are a mess and desparately need someone of Mal Brough's calibre to clean them up.
There is no point having hime wait for the next Fedreral election and then waste another three years after that trying to get in. The states are far more likely to become Liberal in the medium term.
 
PortfolioPlus said:
Sorry Julia...great thought...but a poor career move for one of the most able politicans we have seen for some time.

Until such time as the Qld coalition can formally and irrevocably agree on a course forward and then stand behind that stance with gusto it's like sending Mal to the abattoir.

That said.. the coalition have got the quality of the herd that they deserve and heaven knows the "gene pool" is less than shallow!

Surely now is the time for the coalition hierarchy to stop squabbling over the deck chairs and recognise that the vessel is going down fast!

Why parachute Mal in to oversee the final disappearance below the water?
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Well, P/f Plus, he doesn't exactly have a stellar immediate future in the Federal party, does he? Certainly State politics would represent a come down for Mr Brough, but he could do an immense amount of good for us here in Qld.

I had a fleeting moment of hope that Anna Bligh might be an improvement on Peter Beattie, but she has turned out to be just as dogmatic and secretive.
Queensland is in desperate need of a viable opposition. Almost everyone I know at the last State election voted for Beattie not because they wanted him but because the Opposition was even more detestable.

What are the mechanics involved, should Mal Brough be interested in considering this option? Someone would have to resign and cause a by-election?

I just feel there is little enough talent in Conservative ranks and it would be a shame to see someone of Mr Brough's talents lost to the private sector.
 
personally I think the best place for mal to go would be the internal working of the QLD division of the Liberal party. That is where the real work for QLd Libs needs to be done. the QLD division needs to get its self in order to atract the good quality candidates, untill that happens we will be left with the one's we have now.
Then after that he would be in a good position to get either the next #1 senate spot on the 2010 ticket or put into a safe lib seat.
 
wildkactus said:
personally I think the best place for mal to go would be the internal working of the QLD division of the Liberal party. That is where the real work for QLd Libs needs to be done. the QLD division needs to get its self in order to atract the good quality candidates, untill that happens we will be left with the one's we have now.
Then after that he would be in a good position to get either the next #1 senate spot on the 2010 ticket or put into a safe lib seat.
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Right on Wildkactus! No "glam" candidate can work when the machinery is crap. The rot is in the party machinery and the various conflicting self-centred interests.

Fix the rot...then begin to introduce the right candidates at the parliamentary level.

The libs/nats need a "head kicker" with immense power to get the entire machinery to buy into the "new direction".
 
Reminds me just a bit of Carr's dilemna - always wanted to go to federal, and when Unsworth lost, then Carr was pressured to stick around and reluctantly take on the leadership of State Labour - remained Premier for 10 years 1995 - 2005 .

But certainly he always seemed to take State politics very casually, almost as if he was bored.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Carr
 
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