ENG:Anna Maria Bligh (born 14 July 1960) is an Australian politician and the current Premier of Queensland. She has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 1995, representing the electorate of South Brisbane.
Bligh is the first woman to be appointed Premier of Queensland, the third female Premier of an Australian state, and the sixth female head of government of an Australian state or territory. She is one of only three female heads of government in Australia (the others being Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Premier of New South Wales Kristina Keneally.
At the 2009 Queensland State Election, she became the first woman elected in her own right as a state premier in Australia.
In 2009, Bligh was elected to the three person presidential team of ...
... decision in appointing Peter Slipper Speaker
PREMIER Anna Bligh says it is yet to be seen if the Federal Government made the right decision to elevate Peter Slipper to the Speaker of Parliament.
The Labor minority government effectively gained two extra votes in the Lower House on Thursday when former Speaker Harry Jenkins stood down to return to the back bench and was replaced by Mr Slipper.
Mr Slipper, who is the member for the Queensland seat of Fisher, quit the Liberal National Party to sit as an Independent and has previously faced allegations over his use of parliamentary ...
Labor factional boss Bill Ludwig yesterday declared Anna Bligh has his "100 per cent support".
His assertion came after a rival union leader labelled the ALP's prospects in Queensland "terminal" and called for a leadership change.
The Queensland Premier has been under immense scrutiny following Labor's poor result in the federal election -- where the ALP lost seven seats to the Liberal National Party -- and amid dire state polls showing a collapse in support.
The latest Newspoll, released this month, showed a plunge in Labor's primary vote to 29 per cent from its election-winning ...
...for central Queensland
Premier Anna Bligh has given her tacit approval to a proposed merger between CQUniversity and the Central Queensland Institute of TAFE, which would result in the state's first one-stop higher education shop.
Ms Bligh described the intended amalgamation as "one of the most exciting developments in post-school education that we have seen in Queensland for many years''.
"If this facility is able to come together, what it offers people from all around Central Queensland is an opportunity to upgrade their skills without having to go from institution to ...
barby - in poll Anna Bligh
Elections: If you’ve got nothing nice to say…
The best weapon Labor has at its disposal to prevent the election of a Tony Abbott-led Coalition Government is Tony Abbott. The polls have consistently shown that while Labor is seriously on the nose and Julia Gillard deeply unpopular, the voters have very limited affection for Abbott. Worse for the Opposition Leader, the trend has become even more pronounced, with Gillard pulling in front of Abbott as preferred prime minister in Newspoll earlier this month.
Abbott has a number of problems – he’s seen as far too negative, he’s seen as too aggressive, and he’s seen (even by some of his own MPs) as economically inconsistent, on the one hand arguing for small government and low taxation, yet still pursuing extravagant policies such as the $3 billion maternity leave scheme which has been denounced by the conservative writer Andrew Bolt as an indefensible tax on business. Indeed the mere fact that this policy has won plaudits from the Greens should firmly es |
Portrait of Spain at the Queensland Art Gallery
It wasn’t a good look for the Queensland Premier, Campbell Newman, to compare the State’s economy with that of Spain this week. First because it’s simply not true: Queensland’s economy is extremely healthy compared with that of Spain. But also … Continue reading → |
Put On Your Thinking KAP
From today. Put down your biases, prejudices, stereotypes … and your Ego. Put on your thinking KAP. And listen up: |
Greatest risk to Gillard a dialogue with the deaf
After the events in Queensland on Saturday it’s probably time to upgrade Wayne Goss’s memorable observation at the 1996 federal election that voters in the Sunshine State were waiting with baseball bats to clobber the life out of the Keating government.
If Saturday’s state result was in any way a dry run for what awaits Labor federally next year, voters in Queensland are waiting with baseball bats, rocket launchers and cans of capsicum spray in readiness to obliterate the ALP.
If the staggering and unprecedented 16 to 17 per cent swing at Saturday’s state election is in any way reflected at the next federal poll, Labor will be utterly destroyed, with a raft of senior government figures from Treasurer Wayne Swan down swept from office. The equal-worst federal result Labor has ever had in Queensland was in 1996, when just two of its MPs were re-elected. On Saturday’s numbers, not one Queensland MP would survive. |
