In December 1987 there was a change in Leadership in Queensland which was followed by another change 2 years later, both these occurred without election by the people, these were not the first unelected Premiers of Queensland nor have they been the last. What is interesting about them is they involved 3 of the last 4 non-Labor Premiers of Queensland.

That time is a world away from where we are now and those Queensland voters who were unable to chose their Premier now form a minority of the population in a vastly developed state with a bulging population of migrants.

The Labor Party has held Government in all but a brief period under the minority government of Rob Borbidge since 1989 thanks to suspicion of corruption towards the National Party, Strength in media management of Labor Leaders but most importantly there has been no clear leadership amongst the Non-Labor that has resonated at Election time.

Lawrence Springborg seemed to do all the right things, with an incredible resume, however he just did not resonate with the urban electorate and was unable to topple either Peter Beattie or Anna Bligh in 3 elections. Having the non labor vote split multiple ways has not helped in any way.

With the amalgamation of Conservative politics under the LNP banner one would have thought that the drag of all these years of Labor, of scandals, mismanagement and musical chairs of each ministerial position. However recent polls have spelt out the same words we have heard for 20 years... Conservatives in the doldrums. JP Langbroek currently sits on 15% as preferred Premier, he has seen the loss of 2 of his high profile parliamentarians and just seems to fail to get media attention and get on the radar of the average Queenslander.

Queensland has already unified the Liberal and National Parties which was long seen as the problem keeping it out of Government, now it just needs an Alternative Premier that gives the electorate a reason to finally sweep out the deadwood, or face Andrew Fraser as Premier and more of the same musical chairs approach to portfolios.