Qld Nationals - the resurrection of Lawrence Springborg ...
Excerpt from the Courier Mail:
21 January 2008
Newly re-elected Nationals leader Lawrence Springborg is confident he can lead the party to victory at the next state election.
Mr Springborg seized the state leadership from Jeff Seeney in a party room vote today.
He said he was certain he would be able to defeat Labor at the next election.
See - Springborg resurrected.
While no certainty to take Anna's crown away from her at the next election, the sidelining of Seeney and Flegg will cause the Qld Labor Party to pause and think ...
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Qld Nationals, Libs agree on new party
Sydney Morning Herald
January 22, 2008
The Queensland Nationals and Liberals have made an in-principle agreement to form a single, united conservative party.
Newly-elected Nationals leader Lawrence Springborg met with Liberal leader Mark McArdle about the future of the ailing coalition, and said the debate would be driven by an "eminent person's group".
"I'm very, very pleased today to announce an agreement in-principle to the establishment of a single conservative force in the state of Queensland," Mr Springborg told reporters.
"We, of course, now will be working with our organisations and our memberships on the establishment of an eminent person's group to actually take this forward.
"This is a significant breakthrough."
Mr Springborg, who has spent the past 16 months in self-imposed exile after failing to win the 2006 state election against the Beattie Labor government, on Monday seized the leadership from Jeff Seeney in a party room ballot.
The new opposition leader has vowed to spend the next 12 to 18 months having a "conversation" with the people of Queensland and form a new party of Liberals, Nationals and "like-minded people".
The announcement came as Mr Springborg called on Premier Anna Bligh to consider fixed four-year parliamentary terms to put an end to "election date guessing games".
Mr McArdle said the Liberal party was committed to reforming the coalition.
"I am committed to making certain that the organisation and the membership have their say in this," he told reporters.
"I'm excited by the concept of us being a strong, effective opposition."
Neither leader would say who would make up the working group, nor set a date for the formation of the new party.
12:21 PM, January 22, 2008
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