Talk:Leader of the Opposition (Queensland)

Complete list
Full list is up, per the link at the bottom. I've used three colours for the non-Labor parties, blue for the Libs, green for Nats and cyan for the combined conservatives. Feel free to tinker with that. Also some of the party definitions I find confusing. In particular, what was the CPP (as opposed to the CPNP)? Digestible (talk) 15:11, 19 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I couldn't find anything either (since they didn't contest an election under that name, and there was a much more prominent Victorian party of the same time), but then I noticed that our article on Arthur Edward Moore has the Country Progressive Party as an early name for the CPNP. Rebecca (talk) 17:03, 19 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Changed accordingly. Digestible (talk) 22:21, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Events of March 2011
The current leadership issue with the LNP looks to be fairly contentious and complicated, so I just wanted to get some of the issues noted down here so we can have a discussion about who is listed in what position. Firstly, I've changed the Leader of the Opposition to Jeff Seeney rather than Campbell Newman. According to Antony Green, Newman cannot be Leader of the Opposition while not in the parliament. It also appears that the LNP constitution does not allow him to be the party leader either, although Green said the party could amend the constitution to allow this. My understanding of the news coverage is that Seeney has been made parliamentary leader and is officially the Leader of the Opposition. Newman is still seeking preselection for Ashgrove, and should he get it, will lead the LNP's election team (I guess this means Newman should be listed as the "challenger" in the next Queensland election article – pending his preselection of course, but that Seeney should appear in the other articles as Leader of the Opposition and the LNP? Any thoughts or objections? --Canley (talk) 22:16, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, I heard Seeney on radio this morning. Your description seems 100% accurate. Seeney is in the constitutionally required, formal position of Leader of the Opposition. Newman is already being described by the LNP as Leader of the LNP's Election Team, even before he has won pre-selection. (I suspect the party will make that a formality.) Ah, good old Queensland politics. HiLo48 (talk) 03:05, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Newman briefly Leader of the Opposition?
Now that Newman has won Ashgrove, he is in the same position as Seeney: he's won a seat, but the count is finalised, the writ isn't returned yet, etc. Is Newman now the Leader of the Opposition until he is sworn in as Premier? Will we just have to wait to see what the parliamentary biographies say when they are posted? -Rrius (talk) 13:20, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

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