The Facebook post that revealed a government in search of a front foot – Brisbane Times

When I logged off following Queensland politics for an extended period of parental leave in January, the LNP had been relentless in their airing of claimed cost blowouts and other issues sheeted home to the former Labor government. Soon after I returned in July, the atmosphere had shifted. A series of events and parliamentary estimates had given Labor plenty to prosecute the government with. Then came the poor polling for the party in power. So it was we ended up this week with a largely manufactured scandal to try and redirect some heat Labor’s way: a years-old private Facebook post from Cairns MP Michael Healy resharing a comedy sketch from an official BBC account. The first parliamentary sitting week since before the June budget has revealed a Crisafulli government trying to find its front foot. Credit: Dan Peled “Some good one-liners,” Healy wrote of the nine-minute video in the post at the time. While much has changed in the years since the then-assistant minister shared the post in 2021, let alone the three years prior when it was uploaded by the British national broadcaster, some of the one-liners are as far from good as you can get. By way of
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