Anna Bligh will be a vastly different Premier than Peter Beattie. She is low profile, media shy, left wing, without vision, and she will not be her own woman. It is not certain that she will win the next election, even with a 50 seat majority.
Anna Bligh will return Queensland to those cautious Goss days when every activist group (especially the Greens) was listened to, and projects deferred rather than delivered when needed.
She will have a new Opposition Leader in Ray Stevens from the Gold Coast very shortly. He will out-manouvre her and gain alot of ground for the Coalition, possibly enough to win government at the next election, if not the following one. The new Parliament will be full of Independents, mainly disgruntled local Councillors ejected from the amalgamations.
In the interim period under Bligh, Queensland will stagnate as did NSW under Unsworth and Victoria under Kirner. The infrastructure program will lag, and Queensland will become known as the "anti-development" state. The term "Smart State" will be long forgotten.
It will take Queensland at least 5 years to recover.
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