Some more gratuitous advice to Lawrence Springborg – if you are going to accuse others of dishonesty be “squeaky clean” yourself.
Lawrence Springborg keeps insinuating that I have done something dishonest in my reporting of his research; and that I cannot be an “independent commentator” because I am “factionally aligned”, as demonstrated in the following transcript from Steve Austin’s show this morning:

Springborg – Steve, just before you go. Yesterday with the issue with Graham Young, On Line Opinion and the merger of the conservative parties –
Austin – yes, his leaked polling he got
Springborg – yeah, the leaked polling and how it had been selectively placed on his web site, well, you might be interested to know that just after I finished talking to you, Mr Young actually rang in to my office & admitted that he had the whole lot of the research which you’d have to then really ask the question why wasn’t it all put on there – the good and the bad, not just the bad in the research.
Austin – we’ll certainly ask him that, Lawrence Springborg, happy to talk to him on that. I did notice that on his web site he has asked you if you would like to respond on his web site. I notice you haven’t done that either?
Springborg – well, we may very well be doing that but what I’m saying is when you’re dealing with issues like this, I mean, somebody that’s factionally aligned, this is what I’m saying, as an independent commentator on these issues, can be somewhat difficult. Now, you know, it was just interesting that he had all the documents. They should have actually been up there not just the bad. We wanted a warts & all assessment of this.
Austin – I notice that you also selectively gave material to some journalist so I guess everyone’s doing it?
Springborg – but the whole issue is I’m happy to show everyone the material but all I’m saying is if you came to me, and those same journalists, I said to them, look, the picture’s not all rosy. The picture is very, very diabolical for both parties and I’ve always said that and the figures show it and that’s proven in the figures.
Austin – well, I look forward to reading your response on his web site and we’ll pursue the issue, thank you.
Springborg – thank you very much, Steve.

In response I’d make the following points.

The bottom line appears to me to be that Springborg has been using the media to spread a favourable version of research that he has and when confronted with a more complete version he chooses to try to play the man rather than deal with the issues. It’s a good example of why Queenslanders see the Opposition as being pathetic.