North Queensland is just at the sharp end of what's happening across Australia | Jason Wilson

All of us have benefited from theft and environmental degradation, all of us have depended on new minesAs I write, metropolitan journalists are doubtless making their way to north Queensland, whose voters have been cast as a principal actor in Labor's defeat.I'm from Townsville, my family still lives there, and I visit as often as I can. I can easily imagine the articles coming our way. Reporters will certainly find people who are less guarded in expressions of racism than white Australians in metropolitan areas. Others will utterly deny global heating, or perhaps talk in dark or conspiracy-minded terms about opponents to Adani's Carmichael coalmine. Continue reading...