Annastacia Palaszczuk’s Labor government in Queensland is not the worst in Australia –- it’s not as offensively far-leftist like the Andrews government in Victoria or as dumb as the carbonophobic Weatherill government in South Australia –- but it’s giving the worst a run for their (or, rather, our) money.

For most of her term in office, Palaszczuk remained a political favourite in Queensland, as one of my friends said, by being dumb but relatively inoffensive, coasting to another victory but not doing very much at all and thus not pissing too many voters off.