My how times change

December 2008:

Swallow your pride, give up, and let Queensland help you out by buying a few surplus assets.

We are sick of subsidising your moribund state's failings, and watching the tide of NSW number plates flow across the border in cars packed with southern asylum seekers looking for a better life at our cost.

You preside over the decrepit remains of yesterday's state.

Queensland represents the future. The sooner you learn to live with that, the better for all of us.

February 2009:

Queensland's economic update was a spartan document for spartan times. The simple photocopied pages was stained with red ink...