SPLIT QUEENSLAND IN TWO - THE IDEA HAS NEVER MADE MORE SENSE

Following the reelection of the Palaszczuk government, one thing which has become clearer than crystal is that the party that wins Brisbane wins Queensland. 

Forget all about Joh's gerrymander in the bush from many moons ago, for a long time now Labor, much more than the LNP, has been porkbarrelling greater Brisbane seats to win elections. 

The proof is in the pudding, Labor has governed Queensland for nearly 23 years of the past 28 years, even though most of the time outside Brisbane it has not won the two-party preferred contest.

This is the cold hard truth which Joh hating Brisbane based journalists won't acknowledge. That yes, in a "legalised form", Labor has created a gerrymander of its own kind which ensures that it can never lose, or certainly not get flogged, at any state election.

Queensland as a whole, as in the regions, will never get a fair deal from a centralist mentality Labor government. 

The bush will continue to be at the losing end of the stick as far as infrastructure spending is concerned, and not just because a lot of seats in the bush aren't held by Labor.

It's not just about politics, but ideology. Some seats held by Labor in regional Queensland are being left to wreck and ruin just as much as LNP held seats. Why is this so? Because Labor knows it doesn't need to win quite a lot of them to win elections. 

The idea to split Queensland into two states, as radical as that may sound to many, seriously is not a stupid or ill conceived one at all. 

Brisbane based Labor politicians hate the idea of course, and most journalists based in south-east Queensland are either dismissive of it, are shutting up about it, or are under political orders of a certain kind not to promote the idea. 

But it needs to happen if regional Queensland is to receive a fair share of the pie in revenue terms and to re-localise service delivery to communities at a base grassroots level, after years of inane and shortsighted centralization of such.

So yes, let's put it out there, let's split Queensland in two, draw a line somewhere below Rockhampton, and run it across to the Northern Territory border, in a relatively straight line to create the new state of North Queensland, with Townsville being the logical capital city of the new state.