Friday, May 3, 2019

QUEENSLAND BATTLEGROUND STATE HOW TO VOTE ADVICE : PAST AND PRESENT

From his vast , untidy  files , Australia's top  award winning  political  reporter , Argus Tuft, has plucked  old photos and   put together an offbeat  scrapbook  dealing with  Queensland  voting   patterns ; this  is  the  first in a  dynamic  must read  election   series .   
In those innocent , sun drenched   barmy days  in   the  Banana State  before  journalist  Mathew Condon   wrote  three  books which revealed the  massive corruption that had  existed  for nearly half a century  ,   the  above ,  unknown , clean  cut   candidate  had a strong  message for  people who wear white shoes  and support  Moral  Rearmament  Party  fund raising  parties , like the one below.  The comment by the snappily dressed  man    attending  the  bunfight   was   quickly  expunged   from   social  media  and the  CWA Monthly .  
Further irrational  voting advice is given  in  the following  advertisement run  in the Murdoch  Townsville Bulletin  as  recently as  May 3 , which puts the  boot into Labor and the Greens . It warns of them  thar Foreign Activists , Chinese  solar panels and scoffs at" University Academics"  and  those who  serve   foreign   latte  drinkers .
In the same  paper is an odd   full page advertisement, part reproduced below ,  authorised by the Burdekin District Canegrowers Limited , Ayr,   addressed to  Queensland premier  Annastacia Palaszcuk  , in which "concerned farmers"  call on her to  intervene   and reinstate Professor Ridd   at  James  Cook University , which  seems to  indicate   doubt   about   climate  change  in  the  sugar  belt .