In the forthcoming October 26 state elections, my prediction is that Labor in Queensland will get hammered.

As it happens, Labor in Queensland is the name of a political history that I co-authored with Sigrid Thorntons’s brother, Harold Thornton.

In the recent Northern Territory election there was a 23 pre cent swing against the ALP.

All signs indicate that, on Saturday October 26 in Queensland, there will be swing against Labor of about 10 per cent.

The primary problem for the state ALP is that Stephen Miles and his government are perceived as being hopelessly incompetent.

This is accentuated by the fact that, in the last few years, squads of people from NSW and Victoria have flooded into to Queensland.

Most of these “southern immigrants” vote conservative. This especially applies to those coming from Victoria, most of whom fled what they regarded as the” Socialist Left” government of........

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