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  • Stingray 'may claim Coalition poll bid' (death of Steve Irwin may cost conservatives election)

    09/05/2006 8:52:27 PM PDT · by naturalman1975 · 25 replies · 1,077+ views
    news.com.au ^ | 6th September 2006
    QUEENSLAND'S Coalition parties are at odds over whether the media focus on Steve Irwin's death has killed off their chances of winning Saturday's state election. Liberal state director Geoff Greene today said Irwin's death on Monday after he was stabbed by a stingray's barb, had blunted a positive response to the Coalition's campaign launch the previous day. "It's all over isn't it. Who could predict this?" Mr Greene was quoted as saying in today's Australian Financial Review newspaper. "The reality is, in this election Steve Irwin is the news from now until the weekend. "Those stingrays are public enemy No.1...