While support for Labor and Palaszczuk had been on a downward trend this year and was well below 2020 election levels,party support remained steady in the latest polling.

Still some 10 months out from the October 2024 election,the latest survey offers a picture of voters’ thoughts on political parties and key leaders between September and December amid the national Voice voteand its fallout,including Crisafulli’s backtrack on LNP support for thestate Path to Treaty.

State-based debate over the key issues ofcrime,housing,andhealth have continued. As have discussions about thefederal infrastructure review andsouth-east water security.

In the months since thelast polling forBrisbane Times,the major parties have laid out more details abouttheir focus for the year ahead:the LNP via its “right priorities” document and Labor through looming bills and inquiries to highlight issues from energy tobipartisan efforts at justice reform.

Where to from here

Despite this,internal Labor grumblings about Palaszczuk’s leadership in her third term as premier have been seized upon by the LNP and somesections of the media.

While state parliament has wrapped up until mid-February,the major parties are already deep in aslow-burn quasi-election campaign.

Statewide council elections in March,incorporating Australia’s largest and perhaps most overtly political council – Brisbane – will further intensify campaigning in the capital before October,including that ofthe Greens.

By the numbers

A breakdown of primary voting intentions shows the most significant voter differences are along age lines – under-55s are more likely to support non-major parties before Labor and the LNP (in that order) – and employment status,with 54 per cent of retirees backing the LNP.

Behind our reporting

Resolve Strategic,which conducts polls forBrisbane Times,The Sydney Morning HeraldandThe Age,surveyed registered Queensland voters at several points across four months before giving us their findings.

This round,between mid-September and the end of last week,had a sample size of 940,with a 3.2 per cent margin of error.

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