Why Queensland is home to some of Australia's most notable maverick politicians

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Queensland is set to play a large role in next month's federal election, and the state's maverick politicians could be key to the outcome. What makes them so popular in the Sunshine State?

But Dr Williams said not all mavericks came from the right wing of politics or from Queensland."He's carved out a career over disgruntlement towards the major parties, and he did so from the centre.

At the 2019 election, Bob Katter was returned with more than 63 per cent of the primary vote in his electorate of Kennedy. "They are looking for change, they are looking for representation, looking for people who will represent them on the floor of parliament with integrity and honesty." Mr Mickel said the recent crop of maverick politicians also tended to be people who had had a falling out with a major party — such as Mr Katter and Mr Palmer falling out with the Nationals, and Senator Hanson with the Liberals.

 

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What happened Aunty? You've changed. It's like you're in an abusive relationship and are hiding it from us all.

Don't have to read the article. It's because Queenslanders anywhere North or West of Brisbane are batshit crazy rednecks. That's right, not bogans, rednecks. It's like Deliverance up there.

More importantly why is VIC home to commie leaders?

Abundant sunshine

Maverick? Or just cooked by too much sun?

Maverick isn't the right word

Maverick,?

When I saw UAP's giant ad of 3% interest rate, I thought it was from a dodgy mortgage broker 😂

Using the term Maverick is misleading.... There are charms, benefits and attributes of a maverick that most can disagree with but still like.. These 3 are just angry over rated bigots, buffoons and boof heads

99% of all media in Qld is MurdochGutterMedia & the other % More lnp propaganda on ch9 & ch7 the only vaguely responsible media would be the SBS

lmao 🤣 Maverick? They’re all unorthodox conservatives if you’d bothered to check their voting record.

1.A person who shows independence of thought and action, especially by refusing to adhere to the policies of a group to which he or she belongs. 2. An unbranded range animal… If you think these these people show independence of thought…🤦🏻‍♀️

Any of them will do a better job than the major parties if you can call Labour and LNP major parties.

It's the heat I reckon..it fries their brains to nothing and then they go on the road think that they have all the answers..Queensland is the nutter centre of excellence for Australia..

Its in the water

Not so much maverick as nut job!🤪

Abc is now newscorp They are populist dog whistling demagogues. And that's putting it nicely.

Maverick ? Sorry you’ve misspelled “backwards, misogynistic, racist hicks” sorry abc do better

Is that what we’re calling nutbags now?

Every breath of these greedy creatures is a sin and the shame of mankind.

Base of the racism.

Why QLD is the epicentre of Fuckwittism, in other words.

Some of Australia's more notable certifiable idiots you mean.

Mavericks are usually creatively and inspirationally independent based on their intellectual interpretations of life, living and progress. They generally have an unorthodox approach to their goals.These people are not mavericks. Their thinking is not different. It is predictable.

Mavericks? Put all 3 together in one room one of 2 things might happen:- their ego's would create a chemical reaction and explode, so long QLD. or the explosion wouldn't even mess up their hair.

Queensland?

Queensland boy.

Queensland boy.

We all know why it’s QLD

Another Queensland corrupt politician.

Cooked nutcases. Some never got over Joh.

Answer is simple Queensland a state with historicaly most corrupt politicians and government where most milioners and crooks hide.

Evidence of ‘Going Troppo’. Also evidence daylight savings has additional benefits

The tools down dumb down close down pension down cohort.

More important. Why is the ABC home to maverick reporters?

'They tend to come out of regional or provincial city areas.' Yep, that's where sky news is free to air, is played in pubs and considered to be 'news'.

Maverick, is that a new description of NUTTERS?

Maverick was a kind hearted scammer. No evidence of any of this lot even having a heart.

'Maverick' the new euphemism for '🦇💩 crazy'.

That's because the three of them would have been influenced by sir Joh & the extreme conservative thinking.

Because Queensland is the redness state,

AlboForPM or we are stuck with this

And when you say maverick you mean..........

*batcrap crazy

Is there something in the water?

Maverick is the new unhinged? Can't wait to see how this plays out in a convo...

Clive's health is poor because He is so overweight. Clive cannot be taken seriously until he regains control over his own health.

So basically what we already knew. Self centred, spoilt and don't believe in society as a whole or that they have responsibilities. Often ill informed, gullible and narrowly educated. Thinks everything should just be their way. Most would fit right in at QAnon 🙄

It's the heat it affects your brain

Maverick? Far from it, they are the worst there is.

A lot of paedos in QLD too but the ABC fails to see the link.

It's the same state that brought us Joh Bjelke-Petersen &it's the state that voted him in again &again &again-even with the gerrymander of the electorates, he was still 'popular' for yrs after he was shown as corrupt as Fk.I Lived in Bris for yrs &some people still said he was OK

Suggests the reason is to do with demograpic of voters.

Siri ... how do I create a 'Lobotomised Sh*theads' list on Twitter and who should be on it? 🤪

Maverick is a code not to offend the many moronic voters easily conned by three word sound bites the likes of flat earthers and antivaxers.

Diplomatic way of saying moron .

Maverick? I think you mean unhinged

Maverick LOL you mean Loony

Hanson and Palmer have lost their gloss up here ...compared to last election. Maverick? Just snake oil salesman feeding on the deluded for $$$$$$

It’s a legacy of Bjelke-Petersen corrupt era when he gutted rural education. He left a legacy of ignorance being exploited by Hanson, Palmer and Katter.

To much sun! Also they’re not mavericks they’re regressive

Lizzard weather breeds weird people

I think Nutjobs is a better description for those three. Is reporting on planet earth?

Political ignorance, poor levels of education and a heavily biased media.

they're all braindead?

Yep, we here in Queensland seem to draw all of Australia’s craziest politicians, maybe it’s too much sunshine and they go troppo? But they are certainly fucking loonies! 🤪

Sure ... dangerous politicians, but followers in the main ... we didn't produce Howard, Abbott and Morrison, dangerous politicians with real power ...

sounds like queensland is not open enough, btw can people put the trust on 'maverick'

“Maverick” - is that what being an a$$hole is called these days?

‘Maverick’ is far too kind a word for these dismal grifters…

Old two heads

sad part is and they just dont get it they have some really great ideas and could run the country better but all 3 have the personality of drying paint and have a sleezy look can not relate to the people they need be out of the spot light and peoples people in the front light …

😂🤣😅 notable maverick politician 😂🤣😅 unbridled populists with no solutions and no policies.

I’d like to remind ABC that Clive Palmer is not a politician..( please get your tack right !!!)🦋

You have got to be joking!!! Is this now a satirical page? Two of these would have to be amongst the most corrupt politicians around. I can tolerate Katter but the other two are just nasty horrible people.

Mavericks? Whack jobs maybe? The Florida/Texas of Australian

'notable mavericks'? What a lovely term to describe some of the most hostile, anti-democratic, proudly vilifying grifters this nation has had to endure.

Might be a simple explanation Some folks are dumb where they come from

This article explains nothing. Clickbait. They are all just lining their pockets. Katter has a cosy little gun business. Clive went solo because the LNP didn’t give him his mine. Hanson uses racism to get on the gravy train, and when that doesn’t work, fraud is the next option.

Right wing nut jobs is the accepted description.

It could be because QLD has money. A lot of money. It's the Joh-Bjelke State remember .... old habits die hard.

They don’t look like Bart, Brett and Beau.

One person’s “maverick” is another’s “deranged”

They are not maverick- they are ignorant, frequently cruel, and highly divisive. Their lack of education, too-high pay-packets and zero kindness to communities is the only thing notable about them.

Warm weather, XXXX, cane toads and that pictured bunch plus a few more...

These make the muppets look intelligent!

Traveling north in Australia is like travelling south in the USA

When did maverick become a synonym for lying, cheating conniving snake oil traders?

Because people their age could leave school at 14 after a very poor Jo Bjelkie-Pietersen government education.

Because there are a large number of descendants of British prisoners living there?

Because murdoch owns all the papers and foxtel where they watch NRL and get exposed to his foreign interference into Australia's democracy.

maverick? is that a polite way of getting around the twitter censors?

Maverick? Do you mean dixkhead or dumbest or most ridiculously hateful?

“Maverick “ equates to “Racist “

Maverick? You mean crackpot.

Because anyone who know Qld knows that once you get away from the SE coastal region, it becomes hillbilly country....

As my old mother (a Qlder) always said about the locals , “The closer to the equator, the more insane they become.”

Always with the euphemisms. Try, 'delusional, dangerous nutjobs'.

Maverick? More like dangerous

Maverick? Try radical or extremist

Maverick? Well, you had to put something in there...

And 1 wing to fly them all, 'Don't u worry about that'

Idiots 💁🏻‍♀️

'...they are looking for representation, looking for people who will represent them on the floor of parliament with integrity and honesty.' - Pauline Hanson

Why? 2 reasons. Most are LNP rejects and aligned to the LNP. A media monopoly which spreads anti labor BS.

Maverick? No. Bigotted and self serving? Yes

'Maverick' isn't exactly the word I'd be using to describe those 3 🙄

Queenslanders re elected a Premier who turned away dying children, refused to let relatives see dying parents and told outright lies about who can use Qld hospitals, so they are either extremely gullible or intellectually challenged.

It’s Queensland, Queen, slave trade, imperialism

troppo

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