'Trump's doing what he said. We've got to start backing ourselves': Bursting the Canberra bubble

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By the same token, while Ray says he thinks Clive Palmer talks a lot of sense, he's wary of the magnate's record in Townsville, where the collapse of his Queensland Nickel refinery cost jobs. "I still don't trust him," Ray says. "He carries on a bit."fondling dancers in a Washington strip club"Very disappointed in some of those jokers," Ray says. "They're out there, they're politicians, and then they turn around and do those things.

But in the meantime, I'm in the nation's capital, which opened its first light rail line a little over a week ago to much fanfare.Having taken three buses, two trains and one ferry so far, who could resist adding another form of public transport?Sitthixay Ditthavong Rhiannon McGlinn is heading back from Gungahlin to the city. She's 22, studying law and working too. She doesn't agree with Angela's view of the city.

Her adult daughter Kate Langford disagrees. "I do think there's a bubble," she says. "There's a fairly homogenous demographic." Most Canberrans, Kate says, hold progressive values.Labor is expected to pick up the third lower house seat the ACT has gainedAfter more discussion, the mother and daughter end up agreeing.

Maisie, working at the shopping centre in town, shares Gemma's concerns. Her car was stolen recently.For someone like Maisie, who grew up in the countryside outside Wagga, locking doors and taking security seriously is a change. It isn't that she doesn't know who the Prime Minister is, she just doesn't have a sense of what he's like as a person after seeing so many leaders come and go.Childcare and penalty rates get a mention from voters, and the drought is at the top of people's minds. Maisie names it her biggest concern. Other shopkeepers on the main street do the same.

But as the train rolls on, eating up kilometres in my journey up the east coast, I meet some more engaged passengers. "The most important policy issues for me are climate change, asylum seekers, basic human rights, queer rights and animal justice," she says. "Overall, I think the Greens have a real vision for Australia and it's the kind of Australia I want to live in."

"Anyone can do whatever they want, but I just don't understand how you can f---ing eat animals. They cry!" says Dan, who works for a clothes label on Collingwood's trendy Smith Street.For Dan, veganism is intimately linked to environmentalism.His answer is the same as that of Mohit, who I had met standing on the top deck of the Spirit of Tasmania watching the sunrise.Neither Dan or Mohit are militant vegans.

 

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