Labor lays tightrope path to win back voters. They now have to walk it

June 25, 2026 — 8:04pm

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It was a 60-minute speech 20 months in the making. The first major outlay of new policies and priorities from a Queensland Labor opposition finally looking up from its 2024 election wounds.

Whether the course set off along by leader Steven Miles on Thursday goes far enough, or in the right direction, to satisfy his partyroom colleagues this year is one thing – the state’s voters are another.

But Miles has now given initial shape to his focus for the 2028 state election, while making clear he views not just the Crisafulli LNP government, but an ascendant One Nation, as competition.

This has been rooted in targeted efforts to return or keep money in people’s pockets, through interest returns on portable rental bonds or free vehicle rego for........

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