Showing posts with label Queensland Tuft Spoof. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Queensland Tuft Spoof. Show all posts

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 .