Scroll down for the latest news and major announcements, and to join the conversation. It is the height of arrogance for the man that every poll suggests will be premier in three weeks from today to refuse to tell Queenslanders what his plan is for the track and field venue at the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Steven Miles and David Crisafulli took just one week to charge straight into the sleeping giant of every election campaign – health.

Labor MP Tom Smith won Queensland’s most marginal electorate, Bundaberg, by just nine votes in 2020, but he insists that locals don’t mind that the site of the new hospital is just dirt, four years after the project was first ­announced.

Historian Allan Lichtman revealed whether a so-called October surprise would make him back off his prediction that Kamala Harris will beat Donald Trump in November.

October surprises have become a staple of politics, with voters and viewers eagerly anticipating a revolutionary reveal that will change the dynamics of the election. An October surprise is any event that suddenly changes the dynamics of an election in the preceding month.