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Campbell Newman Argumentative Analysis

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Mr Campbell Newman was a popular lord mayor as a member of the Liberal Party, who served the Queensland government for three years from 2012 – 2015 (Lewis, 2015). In the recent 2015 Queensland state election, Newman was heavily punished by the public voters of Queensland as a result of treating the public servants unfairly by cutting jobs in contrast to his promises. He also claimed that there would be no forced redundancies and that he would try to lower the unemployment rate, yet these promises were never met. In support of this, the following essay argues that Campbell Newman didn’t interfere with the free market economy of Queensland, which can be beneficial for consumers in many ways because there is no government intervention. Instead, …show more content…

This goes against his promises to the public in saying that public service will only get bigger in the years following his successful election in 2012 (Hurst, 2012). Although he pleaded that public servants were going to be looked after, he told brisbanetimes.com.au in a December 2011 interview, that there was a chance that public service could fall, not by forced redundancies but by “using natural attrition to manage the headcount over time” (Hurst, 2012). His reasoning for this crucial act of axing 14,000 jobs was because the former Labour government had managed to let the public service to become too large, compared to what Queensland can afford. Even though this damaging act didn’t directly interfere with the free market economy, it affected the public service job sector, which is a massive contribution to the Queensland economy. Newman lied to these people in order to gain himself an advantage in the economy, which is not what the voters in Queensland are after. “Once the public formed an impression of a leader, it was very hard to shift that opinion”, (Lewis, 2015). He was severely punished by voters in the 2015 state election mainly because of this

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