Queensland's coal country turned its back on Labor in 2019. How is the region feeling this time around?

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After three years of bushfires, a pandemic and rising living costs, Australians face another federal election, with job security and climate change still major issues in regional Queensland.

When Bob Brown's anti-Adani convoy rolled into central Queensland in 2019, the reverberations were felt all the way to Canberra.

Three years on, in the face of another federal election, the ABC retraced the convoy's path and found that while much had changed, some things remained the same.Job security to keep Clermont alive "It would have to be job security still. That's the biggest one, making sure the town is still here," he said.

This year the major party candidates are the LNP's Colin Boyce — an already elected state MP for Callide— and the Gladstone Mayor Matt Burnett, for Labor."I think the Morrison government has gone to sleep when it comes to recognising climate change," he said. This year, Ms McDowall said she had disengaged from politics, feeling that politicians had lost their true character.

 

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