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January 12th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Anna Bligh and Campbell Newman both proudly claim to be the underdog in the upcoming Queensland election.
But neither the premier nor the Liberal National Party (LNP) leader are willing to lie down.
Mr Newman has attempted to dominate government territory by declaring the election campaign to be up and running.
“Today marks the start of the state campaign, whether the premier has confirmed it or not,” Mr Newman told reporters in the Brisbane seat of Ashgrove on Thursday.
But on the other side of town, Ms Bligh categorically ruled out calling an election next week.
Political commentators speculated that Ms Bligh might try to capitalise on this week’s flood anniversary events, which reminded voters of the good job she did during the crisis a year ago.
Ms Bligh declined to answer political questions this week, saying she was focused on paying tribute to the survivors and victims of last summer’s floods.
But on Thursday she fielded questions about the upcoming election, which is expected to be called by March.
“This is going to be a fierce contest and I look forward to it, but this week has been an important week,” Ms Bligh said.
“I’ve said from day one after the floods that we planned for 2011 to be a reconstruction year, and that’s what it’s been, and 2012 is a scheduled election year.
“I want to be a government who, in this circumstance, lives up to that promise and that’s what we’re doing.”
Mr Newman said Ms Bligh had a history of breaking promises, before announcing that a LNP government would not reinstate the fuel subsidy it criticised Labor for scrapping.
He said the LNP would offer other measures to rein in the cost of living, including reinstating a $7000 stamp duty discount for home owners.
He urged Queenslanders to just vote one for the LNP, and ruled out doing deals with minor parties or independents to form a minority government.
The former Brisbane lord mayor refused to say who would lead the LNP if it won government but he failed to take Ashgrove from Labor’s Kate Jones.
“We won’t win this state election if we don’t win Ashgrove,” Mr Newman said, downplaying opinion polls showing the LNP enjoying a comfortable win.
“Anybody who says the LNP is going to come roaring through is absolutely dead wrong.”
Ms Bligh said the latest ReachTEL poll, showing Mr Newman leading Ms Jones by almost 10 percentage points on a two-party preferred basis, was nothing new.
“Kate knows and I know that we go into this fight as the underdogs but that doesn’t worry me,” she said.
“There is no one working harder to win the hearts and minds of the voters of Ashgrove than Kate Jones.”
Ms Bligh played down reports by The Australian newspaper that Labor party officials were struggling to fill ballot papers in the face of probable defeat.
She said it was not unusual that Labor was yet to select candidates in up to 15 seats when “we’re some way from an election being called”.
Nine Labor MPs will retire at the election.
The government’s three-year term expires in March and an election must be held by June 16.
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