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February 20th, 2012 
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ELECTION COVERAGE: Madonna King talks to Anthony Chisholm, ALP State Secretary.
Source: The Courier-Mail
THE Kevin Rudd leadership wrangle is costing Anna Bligh votes and has to stop, state ALP secretary Anthony Chisholm says.
Chisholm, who worked on Rudd’s federal campaign and is credited with Queensland Labor’s historic fifth term, said the leadership bickering was a distraction, as the party was working against the odds to win government again.
“I think it’s clearly not helpful,” he said in an exclusive interview with couriermail.com.au.
“The sooner it is sorted out and we can move on the better.”
Senior ALP ministers and officials are angry Rudd is stoking the embers of a leadership challenge during the state campaign, saying it shows his ego is bigger than his support for the party.
“All it is doing is taking the focus off some of the issues that we want to talk about and that’s a concern from the campaign point of view,” Chisholm said.
He refused to answer whether a win by Kevin Rudd could boost Labor’s chances in Queensland, and dismissed talk that Peter Beattie might run in the seat of Griffith if Rudd lost the leadership challenge and left Parliament.
On the state election, Chisholm admits his party has annoyed voters and said the polls were sending him a loud and clear message.
“Our government is not perfect and it doesn’t pretend to be. They’re sending us a message. They obviously want us to do better,” he said.
Decisions like privatization and dropping the fuel levy were dictated by economic circumstances and would not be repeated.
Labor will continue to attack Newman over his family’s financial dealings, he said, and contrast the leaders’ treatment of Queenslanders.
“When push comes to shove people know the premier will come down on the side of Queenslanders. I think there’s doubt about Campbell Newman in terms of some of the decisions he’s made.”
Bligh was happy to make decisions that made her unpopular because it was in the state’s long-term interests, and the next 30 days would be spent comparing that stance, to Newman’s decisions as Brisbane Lord Mayor which had ended up costing ratepayers.
Labor has more than three-quarters of all seats in Brisbane and its strategy to attack Newman over decisions made as Lord Mayor is an attempt to prop up many of those seats, which party polling shows are likely to change hands.
“The easiest thing for Anna to have done would have been to not take some of those decisions and just have an easy ride, but she did it because they were in the long-term economic future of this state and I think that sets us up for this campaign,” Chisholm said.
Chisholm says the gap between support for Kate Jones and Newman in Ashgrove was closing and voters, closer to the election, were more likely to swing behind someone who wanted to be the local member.
This is the first in a series of interviews with the big players during the election. On Friday morning, at 8.30am, you can hear from Lawrence Springborg, and next Tuesday, the LNP’s president Bruce McIver.
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