“You’ll actually note that Peter Dutton has said what I said first,and that is that the level of migration we’re currently experiencing in Queensland is putting too much pressure on our housing system,” Miles told a media conference today when asked if heagreed with Dutton.
“Steven Miles welcomes Dutton’s call to slash migration” read the text banner at the bottom of the ABC’s 24-hour news channel. It wasn’t Miles’ first recent foray into made-for-TV comments either. (A sitting premier grilling supermarket spinners and big wigs,anyone?)
Not to mention the comments in the Monday morning paper with an unclear ultimatum to,ah,trillion-dollar global social media behemoth Meta,joining calls forraising the age limit for accessing such sites to 14.
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Some of the detail in updated polling forBrisbane Times,published today,could help explain.
While not unheard of for a government in its third term to fall behind in such surveys,Labor’s support among state voters has been trending downward for the past year - while the opposition’s has trended upward - to combined third-party and independent levels.
Labor’s primary vote over the three-month snapshot sits some 17 percentage points below that of the LNP – and that’s without even diving into the likeability and preference of premiers measured against Opposition Leader David Crisafulli.