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30 March 2009Lawrence Springborg has a glimpse of the summit, but the polls suggest he won't get there this time, writes Brian Costar.

 

THE LAST THREE opinion polls, each recording a two party preferred vote of 51 per cent for the Liberal National Party and 49 per cent for the Labor Party, suggest that this Saturday's Queensland election will be much closer than expected. Three scenarios are possible: the return of the eleven-year-old Labor government with a substantially reduced majority; the election of an LNP government; or a hung parliament in which the government will depend on small party and independent members.

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