Abbott starts new year with a backbench revolt, page-4

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    Queensland Premier Campbell Newman, who is in the middle of an election campaign, also wanted the issue killed, fearing a repeat of the Victorian election where federal issues dragged down the vote and the state Coalition government was dumped after one term.

    How can they just state this as fact? - it's actually garbage. The Victorian government was never in a position to win from Aug 2012 according to the polls - they were never in front from then on. If you believe the polls the LNP actually closed the gap in the last months.

    They only ever held a one seat majority and when a rogue member became an independent they suffered from a perception of being unable to govern properly. They only narrowly lost with a 3% swing. Abbott had bugger all to do with it.
 
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