24th February 2017
Former Queensland parliamentary Speaker QUT Adjunct Associate Professor John Mickel says the new Queensland electoral boundaries announced today are “fair and ferocious”.
He said:
- Labor must win middle South-East Queensland to stay in the game.
- Ministers Steven Miles and Michael de Brenni at risk and Minister Mark Bailey’s seat made more marginal
- Electorate name and boundary changes mean few sitting members are left unscathed
- Labor needs to win on the outer northern Gold Coast to secure majority government
- LNP under One Nation and Katter Party pressure in Far North Queensland
- Former Labor members in Far North Queensland and problem in Bundaberg pose a threat to regional Queensland dominance
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