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Queensland is different. It’s the ‘Deep North’. Its state elections exemplify Pineapple Party Time. But what if the clichés that ring true of the Sunshine State are in fact the nation’s future?

Queensland had long been seen as the land that time forgot, with a narrow economy based on agriculture, mining and transport – and conservative values. But from the 1980s a transformation took place. The state modernised, entrenching democratic reforms and civil liberties, becoming less like itself and more like everyone else. Yet now, in the era of Campbell Newman, Clive Palmer and national politics that ooze alarmist populism, it feels like Queensland’s history of eccentricity and unrest has colonised 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.

Queensland: Everything you ever wanted to know, but were afraid to ask

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      Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
      Publication Date: 01/05/2015
      ISBN13: 9781742234342, 978-1742234342
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Queensland is different. It’s the ‘Deep North’. Its state elections exemplify Pineapple Party Time. But what if the clichés that ring true of the Sunshine State are in fact the nation’s future?

      Queensland had long been seen as the land that time forgot, with a narrow economy based on agriculture, mining and transport – and conservative values. But from the 1980s a transformation took place. The state modernised, entrenching democratic reforms and civil liberties, becoming less like itself and more like everyone else. Yet now, in the era of Campbell Newman, Clive Palmer and national politics that ooze alarmist populism, it feels like Queensland’s history of eccentricity and unrest has colonised 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.

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