With just seven days left to the looming Labor bloodbath at the Queensland election, here’s some sound advice for Labor Party members eyeing a future in state politics.

Shed as many tears as you must next Saturday night as Labor loses up to a couple of dozen seats – maybe more – but also realise this: that inevitable LNP landslide also represents your opportunity to shine in 2028!

Your quest to be the Labor candidate at a previously held Labor seat should begin next Saturday night. Cairns. Townsville. Rocky maybe. Bundaberg certainly. Regional south-east Queensland. Some city seats. Trust me, you won’t be disappointed if your quest leads you to being the Labor candidate next time round. Oh, to be young again; I’d give it a tilt myself!

And here’s why. David Crisafulli is a lightweight, and I’m not talking physically. His policy suite is equally lightweight, born of arrogance and hubris. His “adult time for adult crime” mantra is a nonsense, even though he deserves credit for winning the “youth crime crisis” debate long, long ago. Most experts say locking up young people for extended periods does far more harm than good.

His commitment to long-term coal will haunt him as soon as the voters’ joy at tossing out Labor after three terms dissipates.

His failure to release costings for all his promises comes from an unwarranted cockiness created by having the state’s mainstream media as his never-ending cheer-squad. Oh, the damage those MSM outlets do by not being professional and balanced in their reporting. Dutton’s laziness and endless negativity is another prime example of that.

Crisfulli says his costings will be released as soon as his final election promise is made. I’m guessing next Friday after a third of the state has voted? By the way, I’m not suggesting Labor is much if any better but that’s not important right now.

What sticks in my mind are LNP energy projects touted but without a location, start time or cost. They’ve had a decade in opposition, folks, to nut these things out and get them right and treat voters with respect.

The bottom line? Crisafulli’s honeymoon period is going to be measured in months if not weeks. Six months from now, my suspicion is that he’ll be about as popular as the proverbial fart in a lift, Anthony Albanese’s clifftop house purchase or Peter Dutton at the site of one of his proposed nuclear power plants.

That’s not to say Crisafulli will repeat the gross stupidities of the Campbell Newman one-term fiasco. Hopefully he’s not that dumb, but if he axes the Labor government’s multi-billion dollar revenue from coal royalties – I’ve heard mixed messages from him on that – he simply won’t have the funds needed to fix all of the state’s ailments caused largely by overseas and interstate migration.

And we won’t know until next Saturday how many fresh right-wing LNP nutters will be infecting the state Parliament for the next four years but you can bet a sizeable number of them will share the anti-abortion views of Crisafulli and Jarrod Bleijie. Like attracts like, and there are enough rabid right-to-lifers in the state house already and Crisafulli won’t be able to keep them and the newbies in check even if he wants to.

So, Labor hopefuls. Balancing the grim news that will unfold next Saturday night is a wonderful opportunity to enter state politics. Four years will flash by and you won’t have to deal with the MSM banging on about the youth crime crisis or the Voice for Victim people marching up Alice and George streets.

You’ll be up against a very average government that came to power largely because voters generally were really pissed off with governments right now and, besides, it was their time to shine, even if I’m 100 per cent sure they won’t.

Don Gordon-Brown

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