In his first 12 months, David Crisafulli has been a political oddity – a comparatively moderate Liberal National Party premier of Queensland. Crisafulli’s leadership is shaped in part by his memory of Campbell Newman’s brief, chaotic government, which after a landslide victory lasted a single term and condemned the LNP to nine years in opposition. Crisafulli was local government minister in that government and he and contemporary colleagues have learnt lessons from it.