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So who will replace Annastacia Palaszczuk?
Palaszczuk will officially step down as premier next week and will leave parliament at the end of the month. Her successor – currently a three-way contest between the deputy premier, Steven Miles, the health minister, Shannon Fentiman and treasurer Cameron Dick – is yet to be decided.
At a press conference on Sunday, Palaszczuk said the decision was for her colleagues but she also endorsed Miles as her successor, saying she believed he “will make an excellent premier”.
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More premiers pay tribute to Annastacia Palaszczuk
More premiers have responded to Annastacia Palaszczuk’s retirement from politics. The NSW premier, Chris Minns, said Palaszczuk was a trailblazer who “fundamentally changed Queensland for the better”.
South Australian leader, Peter Malinauskas, hailed her record as Australia’s longest-serving female premier:
From her remarkable election victory in 2015, three consecutive election wins and leading Queensland for almost nine years, Annastacia Palaszczuk can be extremely proud of what she has achieved. She leaves the role as the longest serving female Premier in our nation’s history, a remarkable achievement.
Congratulations @AnnastaciaMP.
You’re a trailblazer and you’ve fundamentally changed Queensland for the better.
Rest up mate – and congrats on a great innings. pic.twitter.com/zuRsziDBtN
— Chris Minns (@ChrisMinnsMP) December 10, 2023
From her remarkable election victory in 2015, 3 consecutive election wins & leading Qld for almost 9 years, @AnnastaciaMP can be extremely proud of what she has achieved.
She leaves the role as the longest serving female Premier in our nation’s history,a remarkable achievement
— Peter Malinauskas (@PMalinauskasMP) December 10, 2023Updated at 22.54 EST29m ago22.31 EST
There’s been a lot of talk about the polls. While they stabilised on a two-party-preferred basis recently, they were “grim” in late October, according to our Queensland correspondent, Ben Smee.
Here’s some of his analysis from the time that might help you understand what’s happening behind the scenes in Queensland:
Labor’s 2020 victory followed an almost presidential campaign built around Palaszczuk and her personal popularity. Queensland is a deeply complex state, where voters differ from region to region, and where policies pitched in one electorate might backfire in another.
The premier has repeatedly bridged ideological and regional divides by cobbling together unlikely coalitions of…
2023-12-09 22:35:48
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