Queensland’s new Opposition Leader David Crisafulli faces a herculean task

New Queensland Opposition Leader David Crisafulli looked more like a man who had drawn the short straw than the one who won a party ballot unopposed.

Mr Crisafulli had good reason to look so downbeat — he’d just agreed to take on possibly the most difficult and least rewarding job in Queensland politics.

“I am humbled,” he told journalists after yesterday’s partyroom meeting.

“But more than that, I am hurting.”

It is a humiliating time for the LNP — the conservative party in Australia’s most conservative state has been banished to another four years in Opposition while Labor lines up an entire decade in…