With the LNP MP retiring and Labor reeling from its 2019 collapse, One Nation and the United Australia party will have a big say in this central Queensland seat
‘We’d just like a plan’: Boyne Island teacher Emma Smith says she is voting for the Greens.Burnett tells the May Day rally he supports the coal industry, but that the LNP wants to “fight this on coal [alone]”.“Even if you can’t put us first,” he told the crowd of unionists, “you’ve got to put us above the LNP, because we’ve got to get rid of Morrison.”
“I get it, sometimes we feel like a poor cousin to Brisbane. But I get a bit annoyed that politicians often like to say we don’t care about the same things as city people. Of course we do,” Smith says. About an hour’s drive to the west of Gladstone, Cassandra Sorensen and Tamara Francis are having breakfast at a cafe in Biloela town centre. Cass says they don’t have too long to talk, she’s about to drive to Rockhampton “to hear Craig Kelly speak”.Barber Steve Batesare aligning with my values,” Sorensen says. “My whole family are union delegates, Labor voters, and there’s no way in hell I’ll vote for them again.
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