It turns out not everyone in Queensland knows who the Premier and opposition leader are, so our social media team took to the streets to check face recognition.
In case you need a brief refresher, Labor’s Steven Miles took over the top job as Premier in December after Annastacia Palaszczuk resigned.
She was once called the “accidental premier”, but became a three-time election winner and would have beaten Peter Beattie’s record to become the longest-serving Queensland Labor premier since World War II if she had held on until May 2024.
Miles was Palaszczuk’s deputy premier and also has several other ministerial stints on his resume, ranging from environment, health, state development and local government.
He has done a PhD on the trade union movement, and was elected for the seat of Mount Coot-tha in 2015, but successfully contested the north Brisbane electorate of Murrumba at the 2017 election when his old seat was abolished after an electoral redistribution.
Opposition leader David Crisafulli became the youngest person elected to Townsville City Council when he ran in 2004, before resigning to run for the state seat of Mundingburra for the LNP in 2012.
He served as local government minister under the Newman government but lost his north Queensland seat at the 2015 election to Labor.
Crisafulli won LNP preselection against incumbent Verity Barton in 2017 to contest the Gold Coast seat of Broadwater, which he then won.
After the LNP’s defeat at the 2020 state election, leader Deb Frecklington resigned as party leader, and was succeeded by Crisafulli.
