Steven Miles has worked hard to persuade voters that he is on their side but Star casino turmoil might force him to reveal his hand
But any bailout – even a tax holiday that would ultimately need to be paid back, on the pretence of saving workers’ jobs – would conflict with the narrative that Miles and Labor have spent the past eight months carefully crafting.The second foundation of Miles’s election strategy was to show voters he was on their side. Cheap public transport fares, power bill rebates, building new social housing – all initiatives tagged with the focus group-friendly slogan: “Miles Doing What Matters”.
The most prominent manoeuvre by Miles has been his decision to scrap expensive plans to rebuild the Gabba stadium for the 2032 Olympic Games, and instead run the Olympic 100m final in the smallest stadium since 1928, The decision last month to build publicly owned petrol stations was, in part, an attempt to announce something that the LNP would simply never support – to draw them away from a small target strategy and into a cost-of-living policy debate.
But the reality is that the state can not allow its new edifice – the massive Queens Wharf casino development, which a new Labor government awarded to a consortium fronted by Star in 2015, and has been under construction for years too long – to become a sorry metaphor for its nine years in charge of the state.
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