Labor Leader Anna Bligh went to the Queensland election promising renewal of her cabinet, and having won comfortably, she is now in an all-powerful position to change the Government's and the State's direction.
But what will this mean for farmers, after their hopes of an unlikely LNP victory were dashed?
And what does it mean for the LNP, which is again being threatened by fractious outside forces from the Liberal Party?
Firstly, for everyone in Queensland there is both plenty to rejoice in and plenty to worry about following Ms Bligh's landmark victory.
Having gone to the election vowing to select her own cabinet, she now has a mandate to put aside the Labor factions which have traditionally nominated the cabinet positions.
Instead she can pick her own cabinet based on talent. This in and of itself is a good thing, and hopefully will result in some of the empty shirts being ditched from positions of responsibility.
But politics should not be viewed in a vacuum. It's worth noting that the Premier is from the ALP's left, and in her first act in appointing the new cabinet she has conducted a factional power play by shafting her Deputy Paul Lucas with the poisoned chalice of the Ministry for Health.
Such ruthless execution of her new-found power is concerning given her history as a self-proclaimed socialist. Will the party be able to stand up to any radical new directions Ms Bligh takes public policy?
While Ms Bligh has generally been cautious in her policy approach to date, there are worrying sings.
For agriculture, the new cabinet, supposedly the best the party has to offer, has not thrown up any new blood with a passion for rural issues.
This makes it unlikely that cabinet will temper Ms Bligh's promised new restrictions on land clearing.
The campaign promise was an unabashed attempt to win preferences from the Greens, and showed a ruthless desire to win the election regardless of how radical and ridiculous the policy is.
Ms Bligh was a senior figure in Peter Beattie's cabinet which ignored scientific and economic advice from its own government departments to the contrary to push through the bans on broadscale clearing.
Now, just weeks after the Victorian bushfires, she has made a promise to further curb the clearing of regrowth vegetation, which could potentially impact 21 million hectares of grazing lands.
Whether Ms Bligh is truly captive to the extreme green movement or is willing to work with rural leaders will be shown within the next three months, during which time she has pledged to reach a formal policy position.
If she comes down against the landholder, primary producers will spend another three years hoping the conservative side of politics can have its house in order for victory at the next election.
For the LNP that means ignoring the at-times destructive and often ignorant commentary of outsiders who still view the party in terms of Liberals and Nationals.
Despite the polls which encouraged conservatives to dream they could win Saturday's poll, realistically it was a very long shot.
Victorian Liberal Senator Mitch Fifield, who blamed the Nationals for the loss and wants the LNP rebranded as the Liberal Party of Queensland, comes to mind as clearly having no clue about Queensland politics and the history of poor Liberal performances in the south-east seats.
The party's parliamentary members must view themselves as LNP members and accordingly elect the best possible leader who can appeal to the most number of Queenslanders, regardless of their past political allegiances.
The LNP should not be dismantled - after more than a decade in the wilderness due to disunity, the conservative side of politics is now in a position where it can realistically hope to win the next election and that is a healthy situation for good governance.
Queensland farmers are counting on the LNP to live up to its potential and Ms Bligh to live up to her word to govern for all, including people from the bush.
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