Brisbane Election Shows Us There’s Not Much Joy Chasing Inner-City Voters

 Commentary Two political parties won out of this weekend’s Queensland elections, and one party, the (Australian Labor Party) ALP suffered devastating defeats. Those losses were worst in the state by-election of Inala, where the two-party preferred swing was around 19 percent, but they held the seat, and Ipswich West where they lost around 18 percent two-party preferred, and the seat. Their result in the Brisbane City Council elections was status quo bad. The by-elections were held to replace two retiring state MPs—former Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk in Inala, and Jim Madden in Ipswich West. These results look not so much like a warning shot across the bow of the good ship Labor, but the first barrage in the next state election....