Contrasting polls spell out disaster territory and green shoots for Labor ahead of Queensland election

Mixed messaging for government as they try to conquer the Queensland paradox' - wooing both urban and regional voters

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Six weeks out from the Queensland election, two polls dropped this week. They both told remarkably different stories.

Resolve Strategic, published in the Brisbane Times, put Labor's primary vote across the state at 23%. That's disaster territory. For context, when Anna Bligh's Labor government was obliterated at the 2012 election, its primary vote was 26.7%.