Queensland politics

[mullokintyre]

Queensland government have joined the ranks of the plenty of money spent for no return brigade.

The real question is, why does any of the parties need Cleanco to organise an offtake agreement with a renewable supplier?
What the hell does "supported" mean? Did they hold a gun to the parties heads?
What value has clean co added to the agreements?
How much has clean co spent in the past six years to get where they are now?

Mick

 

[Smurf1976]

The real question is, why does any of the parties need Cleanco to organise an offtake agreement with a renewable supplier?
What the hell does "supported" mean? Did they hold a gun to the parties heads?
What value has clean co added to the agreements?
How much has clean co spent in the past six years to get where they are now?

Comes down to ideology.

CS Energy, Stanwell Corporation, CleanCo, Queensland Hydro.

All in government ownership and all somewhat intended to compete against each other, the first two very much so.

If it wasn't for the political ideology then someone would realise they could save a lot of money by combining them all into one. Not as though that hasn't been the case previously after all.

 

[mullokintyre]

Looks like Queensland has dumped the Labour behmoth for a Coalition lightweight.
I suspect not a lot will change in most Queenslanders lives because of it.
mick

 

[SirRumpole]

Looks like Queensland has dumped the Labour behmoth for a Coalition lightweight.
I suspect not a lot will change in most Queenslanders lives because of it.
mick

Also looks like there is really no such thing as a free lunch.

 

[mullokintyre]

Also looks like there is really no such thing as a free lunch.

probably the biggest news was the poor showing of the greens.
Besides the the two they already had, they were targeting another 5 seats.
So far they have but one, and just scraped though on preferences with the one they got.
Despite labour losing around 14 seats, not one of the five seats targeted by the greens changed hands.
Statewide, the greens vote remains unchanged at 9.4%
Even the other fringe lunatic party, One nation increased their vote to 7.8%
Mick

 

[SirRumpole]

probably the biggest news was the poor showing of the greens.
Besides the the two they already had, they were targeting another 5 seats.
So far they have but one, and just scraped though on preferences with the one they got.
Despite labour losing around 14 seats, not one of the five seats targeted by the greens changed hands.
Statewide, the greens vote remains unchanged at 9.4%
Even the other fringe lunatic party, One nation increased their vote to 7.8%
Mick

Yes I think the realisation is starting to set in that the Greens are too interested in matters that don't affect the majority, like Gaza and have been captured by radical elements to the point where they are no longer a mainstream party(if they ever were).

Although I think they are generally correct on housing, they need to get more into co-operation not confrontation Federally because people are getting sick of their wrecking tactics.

 

[mullokintyre]

In a rather surprise move, Queensland Labour looks to have retained Steven Miles as Leader, despite losing the most recent election.
With Miles as the only nomination, it seems as a formality.
Despite a swing of going from a 16 seat labour majority to a an 18 seat LNP majority, it seems none of the factions wanted to set themselves up for the next run at the control of Queensland.
It has been about ten days since the election, and the counting is still not complete with three seats still in doubt.
According to the AEC, 86.8% of the votes have been counted.
It is symptomatic of everything that is wrong in this country.
The simplest tasks have become monumental bureaucratic marathons.
Mick

 

[SirRumpole]

The simplest tasks have become monumental bureaucratic marathons.

I don't see why there can't be electronic counting of votes. Surely a form could be designed that can be machine readable while preserving the original paper record if needs be.

 

[mullokintyre]

I don't see why there can't be electronic counting of votes. Surely a form could be designed that can be machine readable while preserving the original paper record if needs be.

The problem is that under electoral rules, the postal votes are accepted up until the end of today.
Tomorrow they close the count and distribute final preferences.
Why they need that long for postal votes to be allowed is a mystery to me.
But perhaps its merely a reflection on the level of efficiency of the Australia Post service.
Mick