“Today I have a clear message – Labor is on your side,” Albanese said more than once during the week. Two of the four seats Labor won from the LNP in its 2020 state election victory were where the incumbent LNP MP was retiring. Or, as Queensland Labor president John Battams put it, keep it realistic, and real. While the power of incumbency during the pandemic has not been underestimated in the state election win, Labor is hoping that some of the feeling will transfer. “But looking at the state election, we made ground in areas we really messed up in the 2019 election – central and north Queensland.

Source: The Guardian February 12, 2021 18:56 UTC