Queensland. Everything You Ever Wanted To Know But Were Afraid To Ask

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Newsouth Publishing
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2015
Edition: First Edition

Description: 173 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Everyone has heard the clichs about Queensland politics: Queensland is different. Its the Deep North. Its state elections exemplify Pineapple Party Time. But what if those clichs 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 Queenslands 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.

ISBN: 9781742234342