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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…
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