Jim Chalmers is federal Labor’s most senior Queensland figure.Few on his side of the aisle understand the unique political currents of the north better than the Treasurer.Which is why his description of the LNP’s victory on Saturday is worth noting.”Decisive,” Chalmers declared on Monday morning.The remark — as well as his message of congratulations to new Queensland Premier David Crisafulli and his incoming Treasurer David Janetzki — was unsolicited and significant.Some inside federal Labor are not fooling themselves that the Queensland state result is anything other than deeply worrying for Anthony Albanese.Chalmer’s remark counters the lazy narrative that took hold in the first hours of Saturday’s election count that Labor did better than anticipated.Too many still have the view that Crisafulli’s win was “narrow” or a case of the LNP desperately falling across the line.The treasurer has effectively called that out as arrant nonsense.Votes are still being counted but call it…
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