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Adjunct Associate Professor, College of Arts, Society and Education, James Cook University

The return to a full preferential voting system in Queensland might increase informal voting and backfire on Labor. Craig Golding/AAP

November 13, 2017

With One Nation on the march, a change to compulsory voting might backfire on Labor

Doug Hunt, James Cook University

The real reason for Labor’s return to full preferential voting was to assist them in garnering preferences from the Greens - but it may end up strengthening the LNP.

Labor leader Annastacia Palaszczuk is backing candidate Scott Stewart (left) to win back Townsville – one of several north Queensland seats Labor lost in the last state election. AAP Image/Nathan Paull

January 8, 2015

The battle for north Queensland votes, 1000 miles from Brisbane

Doug Hunt, James Cook University

If this month’s Queensland election is as tight as some polls suggest, voters in the state’s north – where Labor was reduced to just two seats after its huge 2012 election defeat – could prove decisive…

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