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Queensland: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know, But Were Afraid to Ask
Everyone has heard the clichés about Queensland politics: Queensland is 'different'. It's the 'Deep North'. Its state elections exemplify Pineapple Party Time. But what if those clichés are in fact looking more like the state of affairs in the rest of Australia? Does the Sunshine State represent the new normal in Australian politics? Once, Queensland was seen as the land that time forgot, with a narrow economy based on agriculture, mining and transport - and conservative values. Then, from the 1980s, a transformation took place as the state modernized, entrenching democratic reforms and civil liberties. Yet now, in the era of Campbell Newman, the Palmer United Party and national politics that oozes alarmist populism, it feels like Queensland's history of eccentricity and unrest has colonized the whole country. So how does Queensland both point the way forward and shine a light on the way we live now? Political commentator and Queenslander Mark Bahnisch looks closely and boldly at the Queensland experience, from the Joh Era to the present. His must-read book reaches some surprising conclusions.
Book Details
- Publisher: NewSouth Books
- Publish Date: Oct 1st, 2015
- Pages: 176
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.10in - 5.30in - 0.60in - 0.50lb
- EAN: 9781742234342
- Categories: • Political Process - General• Australia & New Zealand - General• History & Theory - General
About the Author
Mark Bahnisch is the founder of award-winning political blog Larvatus Prodeo and his commentary has been published in The Monthly, Crikey, New Matilda, The Drum, the Australian Financial Review, The Australian and elsewhere. In 2015 he is writing a series of articles on the Queensland election for The Guardian.
Praise for this book
"Bahnisch's deep north is a beautiful hive of scum and villainy one day, a perfect storm of gothic corruption the next." --John Birmingham, author, Emergence