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Queensland Source: Victorian Electoral Commission. Queensland July to December 1997 JOHN WANNA Division of Commerce and Administration Griffith University A Government Distracted If 1996 was a horror year for the Coalition minority government, the succeeding year was not much better. The State Government reeled from one crisis to another and the political atmosphere remained highly-charged. Yet, behind the scenes ministers and departments started to get down to business and began to record some achievements. In part this was possible because an apparently knife-edge majority proved no great impediment to governing. The one comfort for the Coalition government was the almost unshakeable backing of the Independent Liz Cunningham, who could be relied on to provide support in Parliament on tests of confidence in the minority government and on most of their significant legislative proposals. Cunningham was regularly briefed on the government’ legislative initiatives and on any other relevant political information the government s chose to give her — so much so that she was sometimes referred to as a closet National or the 45th Coalition member. By late 1997, despite remaining beleaguered by a succession of crises, the government was approaching its second anniversary in office and began to promote http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Politics and History Wiley

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
Departments of Government & History, University of Queensland & Blackwell Publishers 1998
ISSN
0004-9522
eISSN
1467-8497
DOI
10.1111/1467-8497.00017
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Abstract

Source: Victorian Electoral Commission. Queensland July to December 1997 JOHN WANNA Division of Commerce and Administration Griffith University A Government Distracted If 1996 was a horror year for the Coalition minority government, the succeeding year was not much better. The State Government reeled from one crisis to another and the political atmosphere remained highly-charged. Yet, behind the scenes ministers and departments started to get down to business and began to record some achievements. In part this was possible because an apparently knife-edge majority proved no great impediment to governing. The one comfort for the Coalition government was the almost unshakeable backing of the Independent Liz Cunningham, who could be relied on to provide support in Parliament on tests of confidence in the minority government and on most of their significant legislative proposals. Cunningham was regularly briefed on the government’ legislative initiatives and on any other relevant political information the government s chose to give her — so much so that she was sometimes referred to as a closet National or the 45th Coalition member. By late 1997, despite remaining beleaguered by a succession of crises, the government was approaching its second anniversary in office and began to promote

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Australian Journal of Politics and HistoryWiley

Published: Jun 1, 1998

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