Labor: snap poll rumours ‘crap’
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The Queensland government has shot down reports it’s being urged to call a snap election.
It follows reports senior Labor members have asked Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk to call a snap poll in the wake of the Billy Gordon scandal.
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An election could firm up the narrow parliamentary numbers once and for all, it’s been suggested.
But Health Minister Cameron Dick said the idea hadn’t been discussed by cabinet.
“The premier’s made it clear … she wants the government to govern for the full term,” he told Fairfax Radio.
“I’m not paying too much attention to the media stories today.”
He said the premier had taken “strong action” in requesting Mr Gordon’s expulsion from the Labor Party.
She’s since called for him to resign from parliament, so there can be a by-election in his Cook electorate.
Mr Dick’s comments supported statements from a spokesman from the premier’s office who said there had been no discussions about a snap poll.
Meanwhile, Labor State Secretary Evan Moorhead gave a blunt assessment of the speculation via Twitter: “This is crap.”