Palaszczuk’s punt: baristas or the bush

Once again, conservative Queensland voices stand alone and well apart from the madding crowd. While almost every other political body in Australia is acting as if the only cure to the coronavirus is the accumulation of debt, Queensland’s right walk a different path.

Thanks to the current Labor government, the Sunshine State lurched into the global pandemic (panic-demic?) under the weight of nearly $90 billion of state debt. For comparison, New South Wales entered it with a whopping $26 billion debt off the back of some heavy infrastructure spending.

While $26 billion makes big spenders of a conservative government, $90 billion is but a trifle to a Labor government.

As more pandemic debt now accumulates, Queenslanders are…