Thursday gave Brisbane voters the first and only chance to see the city council’s three major mayoral election candidates share the spotlight before polls close at 6pm next Saturday.

But after delivering a five-minute pitch, and before answering questions from journalists, it was how they shone the light on each other in full view of their 1.2 million or so constituents that was maybe the most telling.

With Schrinner right of stage projecting a message of stability, Sriranganathan with calls for systemic change from the left, and Price somewhere in the middle, the spotlight is Brisbane’s voters’ to shine now.Credit: Sean Parnell

As some 200 political, business and community organisation-types picked at their convention centre plates, Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner, Labor’s Tracey Price and the Greens’ Jonathan Sriranganathan were given one minute to ask a question of both others, with one minute to respond.

Beforehand, in response to one of the 20 questions from Brisbane Times’ own interviews with the candidates, Schrinner was alone in saying he didn’t see a situation where his party would have to work with........

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