Queensland: Where No Matter Who Wins, Everyone Loses

The battle to replace Annastacia Palaszczuk begins

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk was told by union bosses that she needed to resign. So on Sunday she did.

Now those same union bosses are busily working out which of three potential replacements will be installed in the top job. Their decision will be announced on Friday.

Tell me again that Queensland, like Victoria, is not run by unions.

The unions are keen to have a new leader agreed to by Friday because if there is more than one candidate for Premier, it will trigger a vote of branch members

A vote is the last thing union leaders want.

So Queenslanders will be denied the chance to have their say on Palaszczuk at the ballot box. And they’ll end up with a Premier for the next 10 months whom neither they, nor even Labor branch members, voted for.

A union should not have so much sway over an elected official that it can force them out and install a new puppet, er, person.