Comments on: Opposition ‘duumbirate’ becomes ‘triumbirate’

By: Spider

Spider — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 21:18:42 +0000

Before Beattie came in, QLD had specialists and did not have a major health crises. Now we have doctors who refuse to work for Beattie, we are losing our ambulances, emergency departments, labour wards, the list goes on and on and on.
I am no rabid Nationals supporter. I am someone who recognises that under the Nat’s, infrastructure was built by Joh, maintained by Nat’s that followed then destroyed with a wrecking ball by Beattie.
We have seen Beattie now Deputy Dog, take alcohol into an alcohol exclusion zone, give immunity to a person who enticed violence against police, has told votes to piss off, etc.
If Beattie is returned handsomely, so is his corrupt governments behaviour.

By: Graham Young

Graham Young — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:17:30 +0000

I think that the many are making their judgement on the basis of performance. Name me a Premier who has actually managed to reduce hospital beds over his term in office? Or run the state capital into level 4 water restrictions?

By: Clive Griffin

Clive Griffin — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:02:37 +0000

“Many think that Peter Beattie is probably the worst premier the state has ever had”
A completely meaningless and fatuous statement.
A different “many” would rate Beattie pretty well. That’s the nature of party politics.
I would suggest that the biggest “many” would, without hesitation, rate the venal, corrupt and downright spiteful Bejelke-Petersen as by far and away our worst ever Premier.
Some of the highly authoritarian 1930-50s Labor premiers and Russell Cooper (“Joh without the funny bits”) would rate pretty lowly as well.
Beattie might have some significant problems to sort out, but yes, the Flegg/Springborg rabble would indeed be worse – they are a policy “black hole”.
CJ

By: JL

JL — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:04:11 +0000

Iâ€™ve seen enough Qld elections to know that Beattie was the mediaâ€™s darling until he â€˜came outâ€™ and made it clear three years ago that he was not going to break his election promise on daylight saving during his term of office.
From that point on, Beattie mysteriously went from doing everything â€˜rightâ€™ in the media’s eyes, to doing everything â€˜wrongâ€™.
Despite the fact that the introduction of daylight saving to a state with Queenslandâ€™s latitude and longitude would be plain stupid, the summertime status quo remains a major loss of face for the powerful SE Qld business community.
It doesnâ€™t look good to bring down a government over daylight saving. However, itâ€™s perfectly acceptable to bring down a government over â€˜nobleâ€™ issues like health and water.

By: wpd

wpd — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:49:18 +0000

“Many think that Peter Beattie is probably the worst premier the state has ever had”
Please. Qld has had R Cooper, Joh BP and V Gair just to name a few.
While comparisons are odious, compared to the above, Beattie does rather well.

By: R

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:26:37 +0000

Yes, the entire Coalition campaign looks very undisciplined. They have dropped the ball early it the sad part is that all the great Liberal candidates will suffer due to the selfishness of the few at the top.
I personally believe they should have played the leadership issue with a straight bat and stated from the outset exactly what the Coalition agreement said.