WEBVTT - Will Queensland kill Albo next? 

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<v Speaker 1>From the Australian. Here's what's on the front. I'm Claire Harvey.

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<v Speaker 1>It's Monday, October twenty eight. Some of our most vulnerable retirees,

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<v Speaker 1>disability pensioners and veterans have been slapped with huge rent

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<v Speaker 1>increases and now the Consumer Watchdog is probing what's going

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<v Speaker 1>on at major provider, the Eureka Group. John Winfield, the

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<v Speaker 1>husband of missing woman Bromwyn. Winfield left out crucial facts

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<v Speaker 1>and appeared to make inconsistent claims in his only police interview.

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<v Speaker 1>That's a revelation in a new episode of our podcast

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<v Speaker 1>Investigation Bromwyn. It's live now for our subscribers at the

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<v Speaker 1>Australian dot com dot au. Federal labor is being forced

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<v Speaker 1>to confront a serious problem in Queensland. Over the weekend,

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<v Speaker 1>the Sunshine State throughout its long term labor government and

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<v Speaker 1>elected the lnp's David Chris Afooley to be premier. That's

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<v Speaker 1>on a wave of anger about youth crime and exhaustion

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<v Speaker 1>with labor today, why labor lost and how the Greens

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<v Speaker 1>went backwards.

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<v Speaker 2>Queenslanders have voted for hope over fear business.

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<v Speaker 1>Queensland's Premier elect David Chris A fully gracious in victory.

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<v Speaker 1>He heaped praise on Labour's Stephen Miles.

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<v Speaker 2>To think that a son of a factory worker could

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<v Speaker 2>be the fortieth premier of this state tells you everything

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<v Speaker 2>you need to know about how great Queensland is.

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<v Speaker 1>Even as Miles struggled to grasp the reality of what

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<v Speaker 1>had happened.

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<v Speaker 3>If you consider what we were up against, this is

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<v Speaker 3>an extraordinary result.

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<v Speaker 1>Miles wants to stay on as leader if Labor will

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<v Speaker 1>have him well. Chris a fully bounced off just a

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<v Speaker 1>few hours sleep and went straight to the gym.

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<v Speaker 2>Not only did I speak with the prime so he

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<v Speaker 2>was good enough to afford me about twenty minutes this morning.

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<v Speaker 2>It was a really really good point called.

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<v Speaker 1>Labor through everything at the cost of living in this campaign,

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<v Speaker 1>from free school lunches to fifty cent public transport fares.

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<v Speaker 1>But the L ANDP won anyway.

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<v Speaker 3>It's a comprehensive when and historically it's hugely significant.

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<v Speaker 1>Michael McKenna is, The Australian's Queensland editor. Counting is still underway,

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<v Speaker 1>but the L and P will have a majority of

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<v Speaker 1>between two and five seats.

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<v Speaker 3>It's not as bad as what Labor was looking at

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<v Speaker 3>certainly last year when Anastasia Palichet was still the premier

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<v Speaker 3>and she was rolled. They thought that a change of

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<v Speaker 3>leader would be enough to arrest and possibly even rescue

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<v Speaker 3>the Labor government. But there's no doubt that Labor has

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<v Speaker 3>been on the nose for a number of years and

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<v Speaker 3>this campaign, while Stephen Miles and Labor are crowing and

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<v Speaker 3>saying that they won the campaign, it's a strange measure

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<v Speaker 3>when you're looking at losing up to nineteen seats.

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<v Speaker 1>One of the issues that crushed Labor, particularly in the Bush,

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<v Speaker 1>was youth crime.

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<v Speaker 3>There was a feeling in places like townshil and Cans

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<v Speaker 3>where recidivist youth offenders were sort of rampaging through the

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<v Speaker 3>streets in the last five or six years that there

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<v Speaker 3>had been in action. The Labor Party seemed just oblivious

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<v Speaker 3>to how serious an issue this was, and then David

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<v Speaker 3>Chris A. Fooley in the past couple of years has

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<v Speaker 3>has harnessed this as an issue and really prosecuted Labor

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<v Speaker 3>in terms of blaming the Labor Party for their inaction

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<v Speaker 3>and also for in fact causing some of these problems.

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<v Speaker 3>Because Labor when they first got into power in twenty fifteen,

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<v Speaker 3>they wound back some of the youth crime laws. For instance,

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<v Speaker 3>bail became a last resort for juvenile offenders. Came a

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<v Speaker 3>lightning rod issue in the regions, and most recently where

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<v Speaker 3>we had an incident just outside of Brisbane at the

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<v Speaker 3>beginning of the year where her grandmother was stabbed to

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<v Speaker 3>death and a shopping center in front of her grandchild,

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<v Speaker 3>allegedly by a recidivus offender who had a long record

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<v Speaker 3>and had been out on bail, and that got people

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<v Speaker 3>really angry.

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<v Speaker 4>The seventy year old had just finished grocery shopping with

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<v Speaker 4>a six year old girl last night when she was

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<v Speaker 4>brutally set upon by a monster lurking in this underground

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<v Speaker 4>car park. Viilein was stabbed in front of the child

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<v Speaker 4>and left to die while her attacker fled in her car.

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<v Speaker 3>And you could see that both in the by election

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<v Speaker 3>that followed in that area where there was a swing

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<v Speaker 3>of nineteen percent, and then throughout the regions, and then

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<v Speaker 3>as there were issues in Brisbane, it became more and

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<v Speaker 3>more of an issue.

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<v Speaker 1>And then there's the fact Brisbane has won the right

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<v Speaker 1>to host the twenty thirty two Olympics, that should have

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<v Speaker 1>been a positive for Labor.

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<v Speaker 3>The Olympics is not popular in the regions, and then

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<v Speaker 3>there was the shambolic mess. I mean it was an

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<v Speaker 3>Olympic gold winning effort by the Miles governed by Anastasia

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<v Speaker 3>Palache and then by Stephen Miles in announcing that there

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<v Speaker 3>was going to be a new stadium at the Gabber

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<v Speaker 3>Cricket Ground and then backflipping on that. It's such a

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<v Speaker 3>contentious issue. We still don't know what's going to happen.

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<v Speaker 3>The Miles Labor government has a plan to essentially give

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<v Speaker 3>a new lick of paint and some new stands in

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<v Speaker 3>a facility called Cusack, which was where the nineteen eighty

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<v Speaker 3>two Conwalth Games were held. It's out in the middle

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<v Speaker 3>of the burbs. It's got bad transport. David Chris A

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<v Speaker 3>Foley has said that he will not be pursuing that plan.

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<v Speaker 3>The L and P government has said this that there's

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<v Speaker 3>going to be a one hundred day review of all

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<v Speaker 3>of the planned facilities, but they're not going to have

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<v Speaker 3>a new stadium, so no one really knows what that means.

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<v Speaker 3>It has bewildered particularly the people of Brisbane. People just

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<v Speaker 3>shake their heads because we don't know where we're going

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<v Speaker 3>to go. But either way, we're about three and a

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<v Speaker 3>half years on from the announcement that Brisbane had secured

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<v Speaker 3>the riots to the twenty thirty two Brisbane Olympics, and

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<v Speaker 3>we don't have a stake in the ground as to

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<v Speaker 3>where we're going to have an opening ceremony or where

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<v Speaker 3>we're going to have the athletics.

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<v Speaker 1>All this is hot because it's Anthony Albanese's weakest state.

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<v Speaker 1>Labor only holds five of the thirty federal seats in

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<v Speaker 1>Queensland and if they're going to counter expected losses in

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<v Speaker 1>Western Australia and Victoria, they need to pick up more

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<v Speaker 1>Queensland seats in the federal election. One issue giving Labor

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<v Speaker 1>a glimmer of hope is abortion. It became a headache

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<v Speaker 1>in the Queensland campaign for David Chris A Fuley. He

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<v Speaker 1>was jammed between some crossbenches and some of his own

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<v Speaker 1>MPs who would like tighter restrictions and voters in this

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<v Speaker 1>who don't want change. Michael Labor successfully turned this into

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<v Speaker 1>a scare campaign, something they'd love to do federally too,

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<v Speaker 1>if they get a sense this is a potential weakness

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<v Speaker 1>for the coalition. Right you're right, Claire.

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<v Speaker 3>We're hearing that there are plans, certainly from the labor

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<v Speaker 3>movement unions, who were the ones that really fueled this

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<v Speaker 3>campaign in resourcing social media and advertising and having leaflet

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<v Speaker 3>drops in marginal seats and accusing David chris A fully

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<v Speaker 3>of having a secret plan to recriminalize abortion. He didn't

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<v Speaker 3>want to answer it. He was asked one hundred and

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<v Speaker 3>thirty times or so what he would do, and it

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<v Speaker 3>was only in the last days of the campaign that

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<v Speaker 3>he said he was pro choice. He was flat footed.

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<v Speaker 3>But I think federally, Peter Dutton is I think better

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<v Speaker 3>on his feet. He's battle hardened and I think he

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<v Speaker 3>might be able to give a straight answer as to

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<v Speaker 3>what he believes in and how the federal coalition would

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<v Speaker 3>handle an issue. But you've got to remember that this

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<v Speaker 3>is state law, so it's a different thing in terms

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<v Speaker 3>of the federal theater.

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<v Speaker 1>Coming up. How it all went sour for the Greens.

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<v Speaker 1>The Greens went backwards in the Queensland election, despite previously

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<v Speaker 1>having taken bark off Labor in the Cities.

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<v Speaker 5>Alban Easy was triumphant, gaining a seat off the Greene

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<v Speaker 5>political Party. I think sends a message as well that

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<v Speaker 5>people who elected Greene Party representatives to state in federal

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<v Speaker 5>Parliament expected them to play a progressive role, not to

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<v Speaker 5>play a blocking role.

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<v Speaker 1>Earlier this month, the Act election saw another long term

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<v Speaker 1>Labor government retain power, but their Greens coalition partner went backwards. So, Michael,

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<v Speaker 1>what does that mean for the federal election, which is

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<v Speaker 1>likely sometime in the first half of twenty twenty five.

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<v Speaker 3>It's really significant. Despite what many people think about Queensland,

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<v Speaker 3>often being accused of rednecks and being all about mining. True,

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<v Speaker 3>we are a resource state, but certainly in the past

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<v Speaker 3>few years we've seen a real resonance among voters towards

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<v Speaker 3>the Greens. I think the Greens have vacated their natural

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<v Speaker 3>constituency in climate change and the environment. We heard them

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<v Speaker 3>talk very little about those two issues, and instead we've

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<v Speaker 3>heard them talk a lot about Palestine and Gaza and

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<v Speaker 3>issues such as social housing, which was already being addressed

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<v Speaker 3>by the Labor and Liberal parties with major policies. The

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<v Speaker 3>Labor Party also ran a red hot, red shirt campaign

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<v Speaker 3>where they adopted the strategies that the Greens have been

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<v Speaker 3>employing in recent years, with lots of door knocks, but

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<v Speaker 3>I think that the Greens popularity is steadily on the decline,

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<v Speaker 3>and you've got to wonder whether it's because they're not

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<v Speaker 3>concentrating on their strengths, which is advocacy for the environment

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<v Speaker 3>and promotion of climate action policies.

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<v Speaker 1>Michael McKenna is The Australian's Queensland Editor. There's another big

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<v Speaker 1>voting day on the way. The US will cast ballots

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<v Speaker 1>for President, the Senate and the House of Representatives on Tuesday,

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<v Speaker 1>November five. We've got a team of reporters on the

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