Candidates and leaders

March 19, 2009

This election campaign has focussed so heavily on the party leaders you’d almost forget there were hundreds of candidates running for seats across Queensland if all you paid attention to was the mainstream media coverage.  Fortunately we’ve still got good old direct mail to remind us who we are voting for in our local electorates. [...]

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Mark Platt not bothered with campaigning

March 19, 2009
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Mark Platt is the ALP candidate for Hinchinbrook.  If that name rings a bell it is because he is the candidate who can’t be bothered campaigning in the electorate that he is running in and placed a media gag on himself.  This is despite the LNP holding the seat by only 1.9% of the vote [...]

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Pauline’s campaign in the media

March 18, 2009
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Pauline Hanson is running in this election as an independent candidate (not for her previous party One Nation) in the seat of Beaudesert.  Her views on the important issues are well described on her website, but how are they playing in the media? A quick look at the Courier Mail’s election section answers that pretty [...]

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Vote in our final week election poll

March 15, 2009

The election campaign has entered its final week and the parties are pulling out all stops to win over voters. Has your opinion changed or stayed the same at this stage of the election?  Vote and leave your comments below. [poll id="5"]

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Poll results one week from election day

March 14, 2009

With just one more week of the election campaign to go our QldVoice.org poll results for the last two weeks are in.  DS4SEQ (the single issue party) showed a strong presence and took just over half of the votes.  The ALP at 18% still holds the lead over the LNP at 15%.  The Greens dropped [...]

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