Victoria and Queensland: which is really the odd state out? • Tim Colebatch
Victoria and Queensland: which is really the odd state out? • Tim Colebatch
Recent election results tell a story Peter Dutton doesn’t want to hear
@ajsadauskas@lemmy.ml Very interesting take on Australian politics, and whether Victoria is really to the left of the rest of the country (as Peter Dutton claims):
"In fact, if you look at voting over recent federal elections, Victoria, along with New South Wales and South Australia, is among the three states closest to the centre of the Australian political spectrum. The odd state out isn’t Victoria. It is Peter Dutton’s home state of Queensland.
"At last year’s federal election, the Coalition won 70 per cent of Queensland’s lower house seats but just 30 per cent of seats across the rest of Australia. Peter Dutton doesn’t need to go to Melbourne to be in alien territory; he’s in it as soon as he leaves his home state."
https://insidestory.org.au/queensland-and-victoria-which-is-really-the-odd-state-out/
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@ajsadauskas@aus.social @ajsadauskas@lemmy.ml ha, he doesn’t even need to cross the border. He can just go to inner Brisbane where the greens took 3 seats.
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I don't know that it's the full story but I believe part of the reason for Queensland differing from the rest of the nation is the higher population outside of the capital city.
NSW & Victoria have remote agricultural & arid regions but until the covid shift they could be effectively ignored by politicians without jeopardising their chances of winning.
In Queensland, for years it was possible to pay little attention to the views of those in Brisbane & still win - as Bjelke-Petersen proved.
https://www.qld.gov.au/about/about-queensland/history/premiers