Somehow missed by the Queensland media were the numerous violent acts against candidates and their campaign posters .
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Nicholls and Pauline disappearing down the gurgler .
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The most vicious event was akin to the blood curdling Texas chainsaw massacre . It involved Pauline Hanson of One Nation (PHON) ... some graffiti artists turn this into PHONY . She was slashed by a culprit wielding a whipper snipper , which shredded her corflute , a very private and painful position.
Why Ms. Hanson was selected for shredding is not clear . The attack took place in an area where a female federal ALP candidate last year had some of her teeth blacked out, her corflute then thrown into the bush . The two attacks could indicate there is a crazed Jack the Whipper with a fang fetish lurking out there in the Queensland swamp country .
Canberra's top political reporter, Argust Tuft , who rambled about Queensland during the latest election , has many exclusive anecdotes like those outlined about the poster warfare that went on .
For example , he told how a fiend on Magnetic Island , armed with a black felt pen , attacked posters which highlighted the ALP's renewable energy policy .
Solar power , the ratfink repeatedly scribbled , would treble power bills . Fed up ALP supporters threatened to insert a wooden stake where the sun does not shine if they caught him in the act.
Some of the attacked renewable posters were worked on , the offensive message removed by hard yakka and detergent, and put back out in the streets.
One tampered with renewable poster had special artwork performed on it and emerged with a bright yellow sun that almost required sunglasses to look at as it shone so brightly. It was then cheekily placed in a prime position at the ferry terminal next to a corflute for the ALP sitting member , Scott Stewart .
Tuft said he saw a considerable number of corflutes for the LNP leader Tim Nicholls which had been touched up to make him look like a cat , an opera singer and Chubby Checker. Argus snaffled some of the bright renewables posters, produced by the Labor Environment Action Network (LEAN) , to take home to Canberra to decorate his dingy penthouse .
He took a particular fancy to the above poster of very young Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, which he described as looking like the promo shots put out by female presenters of current affairs programs or TV morning show gigglers . Annastacia was the subject of a weird advertisement in the Murdoch Townsville Bulletin which depicted her as a horned devil with a pitchfork , somewhat like the tampered corflutes of candidate Dugdale in the ABC TV series The Ex-PM who suddenly sported antlers.
