Federal Labor is celebrating the collapse in support for One Nation in the Queensland election, with Pauline Hanson's party experiencing a close to 7 per cent swing away from it at Saturday's poll.
Key points:
- One Nation will hold just one seat in Queensland's Parliament, something Federal Labor's Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers describes as "heartening"
- Clive Palmer's United Australia Party did not pick up any seats
- Former Queensland deputy premier Jackie Trad lost to Greens candidate Amy MacMahon in the electorate of South Brisbane
One Nation will hold one seat in Queensland's Parliament, but failed to make a mark in other electorates across a state usually considered to be the party's heartland.
Controversial businessman Clive Palmer did not trouble the scorers by the end of the night, with his United Australia Party failing to pick up any of the 93 Legislative Assembly seats.
His wife, Anna Palmer was contesting a seat.
"One of the really satisfying things from the election last night was to see the collapse in the One Nation vote," Federal Labor's Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers told the ABC's AM program.
"We don't pretend that that's necessarily permanent, but it was very heartening to see that vote collapse.
"And while we're at it, it was very heartening to see the almost complete humiliation of Clive Palmer, who threw millions of dollars at this campaign and barely registered in the tally at the end of the night."
Senator Hanson, and her chief of staff James Ashby, blamed a lack of media coverage of their campaign for the party's poor showing.
"One Nation has always traditionally done very well in the regions, you’ve had no cameramen, there’s no snappers for newspapers out there," he told the ABC.
"The ABC's pretty fat down there in Brisbane, but you do nothing in the regions."
The public broadcaster's footprint and reach in regional Queensland has not changed since the last election.
Mr Ashby argued the bush would "miss out" during the next term of government as a result of Labor's win.
"It'll be the farmers that will suffer, and it will be you down in the south-east corner that will suffer most," he said.
"Your fruit and vegetable prices will go through the roof, we will be stung significantly, the fishermen out there will absolutely be raped and pillaged, and I tell you what it will be Labor's fault.
"You’ve got four years to suffer this."
Despite Labor's strong state result, questions are already being asked about whether the party is at further risk of losing ground to the Greens in inner-city electorates.
Former Queensland deputy premier Jackie Trad was ousted by Greens candidate Amy MacMahon in the electorate of South Brisbane, with a more than 9 per cent swing towards the Greens.
"Our task is a difficult one, but not an impossible one, which is to stitch together a big constituency for change, from our cities to our outer suburbs to our regions and rural areas," Mr Chalmers said.
"We've known that's the challenge for some time, and we're up for it."
But he took a swing at the Queensland Liberal National Party on the way through.
"The only reason the Greens won South Brisbane is because the Liberals preferenced them," he said.
"So there's twice as many Greens in the Queensland Parliament, at least, today because the Liberals supported them.
"Remember that when the Liberals are going around Queensland pretending they're anti-Green, they actually just gifted them a seat."
Coronavirus spotlight can't be the only reason for result: Andrews
The Liberal Party's Federal Minister for Industry, Science and Technology, Karen Andrews, said state LNP leader Deb Frecklington faced an uphill battle during the election, with Annastacia Palaszczuk getting a lot of air time simply because of the coronavirus pandemic.
"This isn't an excuse … it's just the reality that during a health crisis, the Premier and senior cabinet members from Queensland were out every day, people were listening because they wanted to hear what was happening with COVID," she said.
"That in itself always makes it difficult, but that can't be the only reason."
But she argued the LNP primary vote was well below where it needed to be to make a dent in Labor's position.
Despite the Coalition's strong showing in Queensland at the 2019 federal election, the state result was vastly different.
But Ms Andrews argued the election result should not be setting off alarm bells for the Liberal and National parties at a federal level.
"People in Queensland have always been able to distinguish between state and federal," she said.
"We have done well in Queensland, we can't be complacent, we never will be complacent.
"So federally, we'll look at what the results were, we'll break that down on a seat-by-seat basis, see how that impacts us."
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