The party won decisively in the regions but was rejected by the city, which was scared off by the hard-right social views of some candidates
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The story of the Queensland election is the story of Mackay and Mansfield.
The voters of Mackay stuck with Labor during the landslide loss to Campbell Newman’s Liberal National party in 2012. They voted for the party in the “Adani election” of 2017, at the nadir of the state’s climate wars.
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