One of the unnoticed campaigns this election is the Queensland senate race. The LNP’s Gerard Rennick lost his spot on the LNP ticket, so he has quit the party and is running as an independent. Labor thinks that could split the conservative vote and the Greens and Labor are both looking to take advantage.

Queensland Labor’s senate team is on the road about to do a 650km tour of the Greatest Nation on Earth with Murray Watt, Anthony Chisholm and Nita Green and candidate Corinne Mulholland to visit Caboolture, the Sunshine Coast, Gympie, Maryborough, Bundaberg, Calliope and Rockhampton.

Why those towns? Well, they rely a lot on public service jobs, and the plan is to make some hay from the Coalition’s public service cut policies.

And being Queensland, Labor is linking Dutton’s plan to Campbell Newman (who is still despised) and his disastrous public service cuts in 2012. Queenslanders have long memories, which is what Watt, Chisholm and Green are counting on.