Published: May 11, 2019
The Coalition desperately needs to win the two volatile electorates in Tasmania’s north, but all parties are battling disillusion and disengagement,
writes Adam Morton
The sun is high, the drivers are honking and yelling hello and Jacqui Lambie is exhausted. The former senator is working a power drill as she replaces a poster that has been torn down on the highway outside her home town of Burnie, in the heart of Tasmania’s battle-hardened, electorally volatile north-west.
Just back from Hobart, putting up corflutes on the way, she is low on funds and energy. While waving to passing traffic, Lambie sighs and ponders the detached mood in the electorate.
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