Anna Bligh, 2012. Election brochure, 2012.

Private Collection

Campbell Newman, 2012. Liberal National Party (LNP) leader Campbell Newman campaigned for the 2012 Queensland State election from outside parliament. Election brochure, 2012.

Private Collection

Queensland State election, 2012

Australia
21 January 2013
21 January 2013

Location

Australia
Electoral Commission of Queensland

Electoral Commission of Queensland

Queensland State election, 2012. Anna Bligh’s ALP was swept from office and almost entirely from the political map after a massive state-wide electoral swing handed government to the LNP under new leader, former Brisbane Lord Mayor, Campbell Newman. Most Independent and Labor MPs were defeated, leaving the ALP with only seven of its 51 seats going in to the poll: four in Brisbane’s south and south-west and three in northern provincial areas. The State’s electoral map is awash with LNP blue after the party captured seats never before given up by Labor, and took a stranglehold on the all-important south-east corner. The ‘barnstorming’ arrival on the electoral scene of Bob Katter’s Australian Party attracted 11.5% of the state-wide vote, but succeeded in winning only two seats in the State’s far north. Details of polling at Queensland general election, Electoral Commission of Queensland, 2012

Queensland State election, 2006

21 January 2013
21 January 2013
Electoral Commission of Queensland

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Queensland State election, 2006. By the 2006 poll, Peter Beattie's Labor government was firmly entrenched across much of the electoral landscape. This election continued the gradual demise of One Nation, with the party holding its sole seat in far north Queensland but seeing its primary vote collapse to less than one percent. The Liberals and Nationals gained a handful of seats in their traditional heartlands of the Sunshine Coast and rural/provincial electorates respectively but otherwise made up little ground on Labor’s commanding primary vote; a handful of conservative Independents rounded out the remaining seats in the State’s southeast. Details of polling at Queensland general election, Electoral Commission of Queensland, 2006

Anti-recycled water campaign, Toowoomba

Black Panther Party, Brisbane, Manifesto 1972. Collection of the Fryer Library, the University of Queensland

Collection of the Fryer Library, the University of Queensland

The Toiler, 1924.

The Communist Party is behind this moratorium – way behind! 

Collection of the Fryer Library, the University of Queensland

Civil Liberties rally march route, Brisbane, 1968

1 January 1968
6 December 2010
6 December 2010

Collection of the Fryer Library, the University of Queensland

Civil Liberties rally march route, Brisbane, 1968. This map captures the divisions between old and new left within a purely spatial context. While Brisbane’s New Left required a large map of the city outlining a precise march route, no such map is extant from North Queensland’s strike waves, due simply to the fact that these struggles were highly localised affairs in small towns, often based around only a few streets. Organisation however appears as vital in both instances, with the almost comical march starting time of 12:37 indicating a high degree of organisational rigidity among Brisbane’s youth protesters. Collection of the Fryer Library, the University of Queensland

Bus tour historic sites, 1996

1 January 1996
6 December 2010
6 December 2010

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Bus tour of historic sites produced for a 1996 Marxism conference, highlights many sites of political activism in the 1960s and 1970s in Brisbane, including civil liberties demonstration, Regatta Hotel women chained to the bar, Tower Mill Springbok riot, and Black Friday. Collection of the University of Queensland Library

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