Election 2019: regional Queensland torn over climate, coal and jobs

Existential angst and confused politics on a 1,000km stretch from Bundaberg to Townsville

A few hundred clicks down a dusty Queensland highway, on the plateau of the Great Dividing Range, is the country’s most remote commuter traffic jam.

Moranbah is bustling, on the upswing of another boom-bust cycle. The town was built in the 1960s to support coalminers; today they are the ones clogging the roads, heading to and from shifts at more than a dozen nearby operations.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2XbKQJQ
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