The United Australia Party is far from the only minor party in the game in Herbert. Katter's Australian Party is running a candidate, One Nation is parachuting someone in from central Queensland and Fraser Anning's newly-minted Conservative National Party is in the mix too.
"Maybe it says a lot about hope around town that he will actually pay off those [workers'] entitlements and inject those funds back into the community," Rains says. As a former union delegate at Queensland Nickel and a Labor Party member, Larkins' own political views are set in stone. But even she concedes that voters flirting with Palmer have a right to be disappointed with the major parties.
michaelkoziol Why does Queensland keep unleashing political nutcases on Australia. Katter, Hanson, Palmer, Christiansen, Anning, I would argue that we would be better off if eligibility to enter federal politics ended at the Tweed.
michaelkoziol Fruitcakes abound...
michaelkoziol Palmer dudded so many nickel refinery workers up there as well as others at the Coolum Resort which he destroyed. How can they possibly give him a vote? Disgraceful fraud.
michaelkoziol Come on Townsville, surely you're collective IQ is large enough to recognise this walking pastie as one the greatest frauds in history.