Campbell Newman
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Oct 28, 2026
Gary HardgraveHOST
The public sector is now powerful enough to paralyse any government daring to suggest any sort of structural reform.
Gary HardgraveHOST
They got Campbell Newman in 2015, for instance.
Gary HardgraveHOST
state and federal politicians in particular, regardless of the party's stripe, they're operating in sheer terror of alienating the public sector vote.
Gary HardgraveHOST
So the result is this cowardly political class choosing bureaucratic preservation over national productivity every single time.
Paul WilliamsGUEST
And it's a bit like that with regional members wag a Brisbane government.
Paul WilliamsGUEST
Campbell Newman found that out when he was punished in regional Queensland when there were allegations that he wasn't regionally focused enough.
Paul WilliamsGUEST
So all Queensland premiers with their salt.
Paul WilliamsGUEST
try and do something for the regions.
Steve PriceHOST
That could spark a showdown between the Nats and One Nation.
Steve PriceHOST
We'll find out more with Campbell Newman after the break.
DJ EmiADVERTISER
What up, y'all? This is DJ Emi from The Breakfast Club.
DJ EmiADVERTISER
There's an election coming up.
Steve PriceHOST
They're also eyeing off that seat with suggestions that James Ashby will put his hand up to stand there.
Steve PriceHOST
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is reportedly looking also to move her electorate office to Rockhampton.
Steve PriceHOST
Friday night regular, former Queensland Premier Campbell Newman joins us.
Steve PriceHOST
Always good to see you on a Friday night, Campbell.
Luke BonaHOST
People are talking about it.
Luke BonaHOST
Campbell Newman, I noticed, has backed you.
Robbie KatterGUEST
Well, I didn't know that.
Robbie KatterGUEST
It's funny we were sort of in fairly heavy conflict when we were in Parliament together, but he's done a lot of things he's done.
Luke BonaHOST
Well, he's backed you.
Luke BonaHOST
Former Queensland Premier Campbell Newman has thrown his support behind Bob Catter's push to split the state.
Luke BonaHOST
He argues that North Queensland's vast mineral wealth and geographical isolation make the proposal worth pursuing.
Luke BonaHOST
So there you go.
Ben RaueHOST
For Greens voters in particular, the party chose not to bother with a preference deal, with the party so obviously on track for defeat, and there was a big increase in vote exhaustion.
Ben RaueHOST
In 2015, however, there was a big organised effort to encourage voters on the left to mark their preferences at the Queensland election, after three years of Campbell Newman's LNP government.
Ben RaueHOST
The rate of vote exhaustion dropped to the lowest level since the Just Vote One campaign of 2001, and Labor gained 44.9% of preferences, the highest proportion they'd received during the OPV era.
Ben RaueHOST
OPV can look like first-past-the-post, but it doesn't have to be that way.
Tony BarryHOST
Hmm.
Niki SavvaHOST
Maybe along the lines of what happened with Campbell Newman in Queensland or Barry O'Farrell in New South Wales.
Niki SavvaHOST
There should not be any doubt at all that the Liberals would win this election in a canter, and yet here we are still saying, "Hmm, maybe they'll get a majority, or maybe it could be a minority." So I think that's also an indictment on the state of the Liberal Party at the moment and, and what has happened with the, with the rise of One Nation.
Niki SavvaHOST
But I don't think really that is gonna tell us, uh, very much in the end about what could happen federally because of the state of the Victorian Liberal Party and the state of the Victorian Labor Party.
Niki SavvaHOST
Well, you know, I think there should not be any doubt about this result.
Niki SavvaHOST
What we should be talking about is the potential for a coalition landslide win, maybe along the lines of what happened with Campbell Newman in Queensland or Barry O'Farrell in New South Wales.
Niki SavvaHOST
There should not be any doubt at all that the Liberals would win this election election in a canter.
Niki SavvaHOST
And yet here we are still saying, maybe they'll get a majority or maybe it could be a minority.
RoyAUDIENCE
We've been left here with a huge debt by Palaszczuk and, uh, and I can just recite the, some figures to you which give you an idea of what happens in national Labor and also by state Labor.
RoyAUDIENCE
Now, when the much maligned Newman came in here in, uh, February 2013, uh, the, the, the debt left by the Labor government was six- the state debt was 62 billion.
RoyAUDIENCE
Now, when Newman went out in 2015, which was three years later, uh, it was 43 billion.
RoyAUDIENCE
He had reduced the, the, the, the state debt by almost 20 billion.
RoyAUDIENCE
Uh, and then Palaszczuk came in, uh, immediately after Newman and she went out in 2023.
RoyAUDIENCE
So when she went out, the state debt is, or was when, uh, uh, Christopher Foley took over, 111 billion.
RoyAUDIENCE
So we went from 43 billion to 111 billion in one, uh, what's that? About, uh, eight years of Labor government.
Terry BarnesGUEST
Roy actually really put his finger on, on I think the challenge that, uh, incoming oppositions who become governments have, including, I, I, I think, uh, Jess Wilson in Victoria next month, uh, that, uh, they inherit that, that deficit.
Steve PriceHOST
I don't need to tell you that, with near neighbor Bali even running out of diesel.
Steve PriceHOST
Could that happen here? And Friday night regular Campbell Newman on maverick Far North Queensland MP Bob Katter's idea that his part of the world would secede from Queensland and become its own state.
Steve PriceHOST
Just how would that work? And with our panel, what would your response be if you won $100 million on your own in Powerball? A woman from Ballina who won last night probably did and said what we would all do.
Steve PriceHOST
But first, in speaking of large amounts of money, amid a national cost of living crisis, figures released yesterday in the annual financial report for the state of Victoria reveal eye-watering debt as far as the eye can see.
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Saul EslakeGUEST
So some very difficult decisions are gonna have to be made about spending.
Saul EslakeGUEST
And again, at the risk of sounding like I'm giving gratuitous advice to someone who'll possibly be Victoria's next premier, I think she needs to seek a mandate for difficult spending decisions.
Saul EslakeGUEST
She doesn't want to be like Tony Abbott or Campbell Newman, who won office promising not to make spending cuts, and then ran into enormous political difficulty when they did what they probably knew they were gonna have to do, they just hadn't told the people about it.
Saul EslakeGUEST
Uh, you know, when Jeff Kennett was elected in 1992, he had been pretty clear that he was gonna make some tough decisions, and he did, and the people accepted that, and he won the following election.
Everald ComptonHOST
I think he's got a big battle ahead to beat Monique Ryan, but he probably wants to get his revenge on her.
Everald ComptonHOST
But then he's got the issue of will the Liberal Party appoint him as its leader for the election campaign when he's not in Parliament? Now, this happened in Queensland where Campbell Newman...
Everald ComptonHOST
led the Liberal Party to a victory when he didn't have a seat and he had to have an acting Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament because he wasn't there.
Everald ComptonHOST
And he won election without having a seat.
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