Tired and emotional political reporter Argus Tuft files his latest dispatch on the Queensland election which he says resembles the American U.S. presidential election in many ways.
Townsville, centre of three ALP seats ,is a major battleground , the American similarities evident -God help Australia .
A man claiming to be from Jehovah's Witnesses has been ringing around wanting to discuss a number of local issues .
An ant-abortion leaflet has been slipped into letterboxes and there is an anti-ALP newspaper advertisement on the subject.
A veteran journalist , a former editor of the Townsville Bulletin ,discussing his recently published memoir ,mentioned the Ku Klux Klan had been very strong in the region,against Aboriginal land rights,claiming to have influence in high places ,including federal parliament .
In the closing days of the Queensland election , while not wearing white hoods in Question Time in the House of Reps, various ministers have sounded like a noisy lynching party when answering Dorothy Dixers that enable attacks on the Queensland premier and the ALP in general.
The theatrical Katter's Australian Party , strongly funded by recreational shooters , pro-gun lobby groups and arms and ammunition businesses , which sees itself as the "kingmaker"after the election, says it will push for a new state north of Rockhampton.
Surely fake news is the wild claim that Donald Trump will move to this new state when he loses the election , open a golf course , build new hotels.
Babbling Pauline Hanson of One Nation, agin the ABC , was interviewed by the satanic forces of SKY , also out to skin the ABC, at a location said to be the scenic rim . It should become the end of the road for the party , seeing its support has at long last imploded, which will cause problems for A Current Affair and other commercial TV stations who pay so much attention to her .
You cannot help feel you are in the Aussie Everglades when the Townsville Bulletin runs an editorial about them thar alligators threatening local swamp people, following the sighting of ONE in a freshwater weir .
