2024 Queensland Election

1. Background

Steven Miles is running for the first time as premier, after Anastasia Palaszczuk resigned in December of 2023. He seeking to win 4th Labor term. David Crisafulli is seeking to break the past 10 years of Labor government.

Fun fact: The 2024 election is the first election where both the Premier and Opposition Leader are men since the 2006 state election. 

2. Electoral System & Divisions

Queensland has 93 members that are elected to its unicameral parliament. Each member represents one constituency and is elected through preferential system of system of voting: instant run-off voting (IRV) or ranked choice, where candidates are eliminated and those preferences are distributed until one candidate has a majority (>50%) of the vote.

3. Retiring Members

Labor

•     Yvette D'Ath (Redcliffe)

•     Julieanne Gilbert (Mackay)

•     Stirling Hinchliffe (Sandgate)

•     Barry O'Rourke (Rockhampton)

•     Curtis Pitt (Mulgrave)

Liberal National

•     Michael Hart (Burleigh)

•     Lachlan Millar (Gregory)

•     Mark Robinson (Oodgeroo)

•     Darren Zanow (Ipswich West)

1. List of Political Parties

Labor, the Liberal National Party, the Greens, and Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party are standing candidates in all 93 seats.

The list of parties are:

• Labor - 93 candidates

• Liberal National Party - 93 candidates

• The Greens - 93 candidates

• One Nation - 93 candidates

• Family First - 59 candidates

• Legalise Cannabis Australia - 29 candidates

• Animal Justice Party - 12 candidates

• Katter's Australia Party - 11 candidates

• Libertarian Party - 4 candidates

2. Policy Platforms

These are the policy platforms of the parties that either have existing seats in parliament or have more than 50 candidates:

Labor: "Doing what matters for Queensland"
Labor wants to support farmers by having $715 million of the budget dedicated to better agricultural policy. For cost of living they wants to continue policies like $1000 off energy bills, 50c public transport fares, 20% off care rego, free kindy & TAFE, $1000 cash-back for tools for first-year apprentices, $200 in FairPlay vouches, as well as a new policy of free school lunches. As for crime prevention, Labor want to hire more police, buy more equipment, and invest in early prevention programs. For the environment, Labor will legislate a new target of 75% reduction by 2035, they also wish to increase funding across the board for emergency services to aid with disasters. Education-wise, Labor wants to improve the 'digital skills' of children and hire new teachers. On energy, they wish to continue the Queensland Energy & Jobs Plan and replace coal with 80% renewables by 2035. They also wish to continue the $107.3 billion 'Big Build' plan that spans over the next 4 years, to retain and create new jobs that goes into housing, health, and other infrastructure projects across Queensland. For example, 2,200 new hospital beds, 11 hospital expansions, 7 satellite hospitals, 3 new hospitals and a new QLD Cancer Centre.

Liberal Nationals: "A fresh start for Queensland"
For youth crime, the LNP wants to enact a 'Adult Crime, Adult time' law and other laws that strengthen and make the justice system faster; they also want to hire more police and improve victim support by boosting domestic violence helplines and provide more help for navigating the justice system. They also want to strengthen the rehabilitation programs to reduce the number of repeat offenders. For health, the LNP wants to introduce real-time, transparent hospital data; reduce ambulance ramping, reduce waitlists, and better triaging; and hire more doctors & nurses for better health services. For cost of living, they want to deliver more housing supply, stop budget blow outs, deliver cheaper energy through an Electricity Maintenance Guarantee and boost women's economic security, they also wish to remove the 'red tape' to allow QLD to grow. For housing, they want to develop a new Regional Plan for the whole state, and create Priority Development Areas, as well as create a new $2 billion housing infrastructure fund, remove stamp duty on new homes, and introduce a shared equity program, and deliver 53 500 new social & community homes by 2044. They also wish to review the plan for the Olympics & Paralympics, upgrade citical traffic chokepoints and upgrade the Bruce Highway, as well as create a water security plan. They also wish hire more teachers, and make sure kids are taught the basics.

Greens:
The greens wish to freeze rents for 2 years, followed by a 1% cap on annual rent increases; create a Queensland State Bank with fair rates and no fees for cheaper mortgages; and build 100 000 public housing units. They also wants to cap prices for essentials and break up the Coles & Woolies duopoly. They also wish to expand and make public transport free. They also wish to protect the environment, move beyond coal & gas, raise mining royalties, create a new public mining company and double the pace of Labor's renewables transition. For health, they want to provide 200 free GP clinics and increase funding for hospitals as well as 20 new free psychology sessions. Education-wise, they want to give free sport, free lunches and free breakfast for kids across Queensland as well as providing more cost of living relief related to sending your child to school.

One Nation:
For cost of living, they want to remove 'net zero,' end vanity projects, and hold Coles & Woolies to account. They also want to strengthen crime laws, and have more accountability in the justice system as well as more intervention. For energy they want to embrace nuclear, embrace hydro and embrace coal and end renewable subsidies and prohibit renewable projects. On housing, they want to end immigration and ban foreign ownership to increase supply as well as streamline building approvals and reduce fees associated with buying a home. On health, they want dedicated healthcare for seniors and enhance ambulances and regional health services. On education, they want to refocus curriculum on the basics and strip the curriculum of any politically biased material. For the regions, they support more water access, and increasing investment in regional projects. They also wish to strengthen the mining sector, promote manufacturing, remove wasteful expenditure and streamline planning to strengthen the economy. For the environment, they want to invest in disaster mitigation and promote conservation and biodiversity by outlawing renewable projects as well as investing in new tree-planting projects. They also want gun laws to be relaxed.

Family First: "worth fighting for"
Family policy involves protecting children, giving freedom for families from LGBTQIA+ ideology and discrimination laws; criminalise prostitution, protect women from exploitation in porn & biological males in sport; keep Australia drug free; encourage marriage & policy that build the 'nuclear family;' give economic freedom for families through cutting red tape for development, pause net zero, persue nuclear, debt reduction, encourage small business, and reducing taxes; centre education curriculum around the basics; and phase out gambling and homelessness. For faith, encourage faith-based schools and protect religious & speech freedoms. As for life policy, ban late term abortions, support women and repeal euthanasia laws. 

Katter's Australian Party:
For agriculture, they want to give freedom to farmers to do what they want with their land (no vegetation management laws), new scheme for for primary producers to install solar pumps, a new Fair Milk Scheme to ensure dairy farmers aren't being ripped off, and make multi-peril insurance more affordable for our primary producers. To kick start the regional economy, they want to stimulate economic development by creating a special economic zone, a revised royalty framework that reinvests into the regions where the royalties come from, as well as creating a new rural development bank. For the environment, they want to enforce the ethanol mandate, reverse farm-killing reef regulations and want crocodile management. They also want gun laws to be relaxed. For the First Nation community, they want alcohol management plans and ensure title deeds can be issued to First Australians. For health they wish health care access was more equitable and promote organ donorship. As for infrastructure, they want to fix the Bruce Highway as well as upgrading lots of regional highways as well as building new rail to resources. For crime, they want to introduce relocation sentencing as rehabilitation. And finally, they want to save country banks, properly fund local government and ensure all-weather access to remote communities.