Under new management? Queensland parliament sits for final time before October poll
A raft of legislation is on the table as parliament sits one last time ahead of the Queensland election.
Cars drive past Queensland's Parliament House, Brisbane, during the evening rush hour Wednesday, June 20, 2012. (AAP Image/John Pryke)
Queenslanders will vote on October 26, with polling indicating Opposition Leader David Crisafulli is on track to lead the Liberal National Party to victory and snap Labor’s nine year reign.
The state government led by Steven Miles will introduce three bills at parliament’s final pre-election sitting.
A bill covering the state’s corruption watchdog’s reporting powers, a health practitioner misconduct bill and another that provides more sustainable structures for arts bodies.
Parliamentarians are also set to debate assistive reproductive technology, which introduces a donor conception register in Queensland to ensure families have access to information about their genetic origins.
Queensland’s Liberal National Party is inching ahead in the polls as parliamentarians sit one last time before the state election.
Opposition Leader David Crisafulli is on track to win the top job, with 44 per cent of respondents indicating the LNP will be their first preference at the ballot box.
Polling by Resolve Strategic, conducted between June and September for the Brisbane Times, showed 23 per cent of voters would put the Labor government, which has held power for nine years, first on the ballot, down three points from May.
Mr Crisafulli is also ahead as preferred premier, with 40 per cent of the poll’s 939 Queenslanders giving him the nod, 13 points clear of incumbent Premier Steven Miles.
Debate is expected on Wednesday for working with children and child safety laws, and vaping legislation.
Valedictory speeches will be held for retiring MPs on Thursday.
Mr Miles took aim at the opposition on Monday ahead of the parliament’s final sitting.
“Like all sitting weeks, we’ll go in there with clear plans for our state and our future, and we’ll talk about those,” he said.
“The opposition will come in and yell and scream and make fools of themselves.”
The last time the LNP held power in Queensland was between 2012 and 2015, when Campbell Newman won the largest house majority in state history.
The Newman government held 78 of 89 seats.
