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7:30: Queensland edition

Queensland gets a state-based 7:30 because Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek has resigned.

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Heads up Queenslanders, you’re getting a state-based 7:30 on ABC1 tonight only, because Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek has resigned.

“Because of the events in Brisbane today, Queensland will go it alone with their own state-based edition of the program for local viewers, focussing in depth on the political changes underway there,” news policy chief Alan Sunderland said.

“Jessica Van Vonderen will host a special Queensland state edition of the program tonight, providing the kind of high quality state-based TV current affairs coverage that, in the past, viewers had to wait until a Friday edition of Stateline to see.

“The rest of Australia will, of course, see the normal national edition.”

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  1. You know this maybe going off topic but on the homepage with the smaller photo but I thought for a moment that it was Alec Baldwin instead of Langbroek.

  2. Although the circumstances are a little different the situation in Queensland feels like when the Nationalists became the UAP in 1931. The Nationalists leader John Latham stood aside so that Joe Lyons could become the first leader of the UAP.

    Like Campbell, Lyons was not previously a member of the parliamentary non-Labor party prior to taking on the leadership of it.

  3. @ Garry – no, I wasn’t kidding. As I said, he had a real chance of beating her – certainly a much better chance than the LNP/Coalition has had in recent years. Anna Bligh was poison until the floods hit – she was performing woefully in the opinion polls and if an election had been held in December, John Paul Langbroek would be the premier right now. Anna Bligh did a great job during the floods, no doubt about it. That doesn’t erase the past, though.

  4. It would be nice for the rest of the country to see the Queensland edition in the 2:30am AEST timeslot on News24. But I think they’re still running with the national edition then.

  5. @ Carta, are you kidding ? John Paul Langbroek had no chance of beating Labor, that’s why he was pushed. Newman will have a much better chance of beating Labor. I’d say Anna Bligh will be a bit worried now, but I still think she will win whenever the election is.

  7. I know your a Melbourne boy David, but your opening paragraph does simplify this issue somewhat, there’s more to this then just our Opposition leader resigning. I reckon if the NSW ALP Bloodbath wasn’t this weekend then Anna Bligh would call the election tomorrow, but she won’t want her campaign to be caught up in the Keneally carnage. I still think she will call it in the next few weeks though, state budget is Mid May and Bligh hinted today the election might be before that. bring it on, Bligh v Newman will be fascinating. My concern is what happens if LNP win but Newman doesn’t win the seat, who will be Premier?

  8. Anna Bligh swore black and blue that she would “see out the full three-year term” after she won the last election. If she goes to the polls early, she’ll be crucified by the media. No doubt Labor is delighted that Langbroek has resigned. He had a real chance of beating Bligh.

  9. I’m predicting, a late August poll. But the real damage will be done, not at the state election: but at the local government elections in March next year. The LNP will be punished in Brisbane: for Campbell’s failings (i.e. Clem7).

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