{"id":3424,"date":"2017-11-24T12:45:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T02:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mappingonlinepublics.net\/?p=3424"},"modified":"2017-11-24T12:45:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T02:45:57","slug":"queensland-election-one-nation-dominates-twitter-debate-in-the-final-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappingonlinepublics.net\/dev\/2017\/11\/24\/queensland-election-one-nation-dominates-twitter-debate-in-the-final-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Queensland election: One Nation dominates Twitter debate in the final weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Queensland approaches its election day on Saturday, the social media campaign for votes continues alongside \u2013 and in combination with \u2013 the candidates\u2019 doorknocking efforts and mainstream media advertising. But over the final two weeks, the focus of that campaign has gradually shifted.<\/p>\n

First, as I reported a fortnight ago<\/a>, Labor Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk\u2019s plan to veto a potential $1b loan to the Adani mine project<\/a> resulted in a considerable drop in Adani-related tweets directed at Queensland candidates, and that pattern has held through subsequent weeks. Labor has not entirely neutralised the Adani controversy, but the mine project is no longer the major talking point of the Twitter<\/em> campaign.<\/p>\n

By contrast, the most significant emerging theme of these past two weeks has been the role that Pauline Hanson\u2019s One Nation Party might play in the new parliament. We saw some of this in our previous analysis, in response to the LNP\u2019s decision to direct preferences to One Nation<\/a> over Labor in a majority of Queensland seats; that particular discussion has now shifted to a much broader debate about the very real prospect that One Nation may hold the balance of power<\/a> after the election.<\/p>\n

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Our dataset captures the tweets posted by and directed at Queensland election candidates. Of those tweets where the presence of specific keywords indicates a major topic, some 51% addressed the Adani mine or One Nation, but the emphasis has now swung considerably towards the latter. This was sparked in part by the LNP\u2019s preference announcement, with preferences briefly becoming a distinct major topic in their own right.<\/p>\n

Labor has been quick to exploit this arrangement, in well-shared posts from the central party account, though recent footage of its own controversial MP Joanne Miller hugging with Pauline Hanson on the campaign trail might have blunted this message somewhat.<\/p>\n

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There you have it. The LNP-One Nation preference deal has now been confirmed.<\/p>\n

You can’t have @TimNichollsMP<\/a> & the LNP without Hanson’s One Nation. And you can’t have Hanson’s One Nation without Tim Nicholls & the LNP.https:\/\/t.co\/S0o7nkcrev<\/a> #qldpol<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Queensland Labor (@QLDLabor) 11 November 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n