In the face of grim polling, can Annastacia Palaszczuk and Queensland Labor retain the state?

Daniel Andrews went out on top but in Queensland the premier fights on, even as the LNP gears up to go all-in on regional seats

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What you see is what you get" has been Annastacia Palaszczuk's unofficial political motto. She's used the line dozens of times, as the fledgling unexpected" premier in 2015; ahead of a leaders' debate in 2017; and again and again during the bruising Covid campaign of 2020.

It's perhaps no surprise, then, that a year before the next election and with polls showing Palasczuk and her government on shaky ground the Queensland premier has retreated to familiar territory.

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