As one Brisbane newsroom wag put it, southern journalists come up every three years to write how the latest Queensland poll has been as "a tale of two states" - pitting the south-east against the rest.

The reality, of course, is a lot more complicated than that.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk's Labor Party received strong support in the capital. Credit:Glenn Hunt/AAP

Queensland is, and always has been, a very diverse and regionalised state.

Part of that comes down to size - Queensland is nearly eight times the size of Victoria, after all, while Brisbane is closer to Melbourne than Cairns.