OPINION: Ignore the Quexiteers: they've got Queenslanders all wrong
Voters who elected LNP members in Leichhardt, Herbert, Dawson and Capricornia on Saturday voted in ALP members in the 2017 state election in seats like Cook, Cairns, Gladstone, Mackay and Keppel.Instead, the federal Labor Party, like the many, seem to have underestimated or misunderstood the variances and nuances of the Queensland electorate.
The first railways in the 1860s ran from the ports in coastal towns to these inland production centres, creating an interdependence not replicated in other parts of the country.
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