‘Remarkable job’: Labor’s Queensland election result ‘much better than expected’

Employment and Workplace Relations Minister Murray Watt says the seats Labor looks like “gaining and retaining” in Queensland are “far higher” than people thought was possible. “When you consider where all the projections were … this is a much better than expected result for Queensland Labor last night,” Mr Watt told Sky News Australia. “It does look likely that David Crisafulli and the LNP will have a narrow majority, but the number of seats that Labor looks like gaining and retaining is far higher than people thought was possible. “If we were going to lose, at least there’s a very healthy opposition number, and some of our most important people have retained their seats for the future as well. “I think Steven Miles, the state secretary … and the entire team have done a remarkable job to bring back Labor from where we were a few months ago.”