Two and a half more years of Anna

The breathtakingly cynical manipulation of the electorate has paid off and Anna has been elected Premier of Queensland overnight. After 11 years of inaction, little planning and excessive spending during the boom years leaving little to show for it Queenslanders have asked for more.

Predictably they were given the trite 'we have heard the message of the electorate' boiler plate from the Premier:

"There is a very strong message here for us and that is that many people who have voted Labor for the last couple of elections didn't ... and they didn't because they are disappointed with our performance in a number of key areas"

Bligh will now get on with the job of giving the people of Queensland lots more of the same inaction combined with spending and taxing.

Rudd saw it as an opportunity to push the class warfare line he has been angling for since January:

"Full marks to her - she was up against a cyclone, an oil slick, a conservative billionaire throwing millions at the Liberals and Nationals' campaign but she came through."

Governance really is terrific right now. The evidence of a systemic failure of governance in Queensland is astounding. Just ask this nurse who was attacked doing her job. Dr Patel's patients (the ones still with us) or anyone who wants to water their garden.