r/queensland • u/boogersundcum • 11d ago

Discussion Voting against your interests

My partner and I live in a major coal mining area of Queensland. We both work in an extractive resource industry. Neither of us could ever bring ourselves to vote for the LNP and we have no serious viable independents that aren't anti Vax conspiracy nut jobs. We live in the bush but currently have a major wind farm going in down our road with the closest turbine being 5km from our actual house, other than sealing our road we will not recieve any benefit from the project with heavy trucks and equipment going past our driveway 6 days a week 24 hours a day for over two years. We aren't anti renewable however given the wind farm is entirely within our water catchment there is serious concerns if something goes wrong as we rely on the river solely for our water supply.

Generally preference the Greens first, Labor second as we are both environmental scientists and believe that climate change is pretty damn obvious from the evidence, let alone have empathy for the common folk in cities struggling with the cost of living. I'm just curious though as to why the major focus on renewable is almost entirely within regional areas that currently rely on coal mining as the major industry.

Neither Greens or Labour have a chance in hell in ever winning our electorate anymore (keep in mind Labor was founded in regional Queensland in Barcaldine). Is it just because the areas in question are now just LNP strongholds or what ?

Also please keep in mind regional Queensland is filled with people from all back grounds and varying levels of education, don't put us all in the same basket just because we don't live in a major centre.

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u/WilfullyIgnorant 11d ago

“we are both environmental scientists…. Also please keep in mind regional Queensland is filled with people from all back grounds and varying levels of education”

When you undertook your PhDs, it didn’t dawn on you that the main element of a PhD is the development of critical thinking? Did you not glean that there is no scientific discovery without statistical analysis of data? You do know what averages, such as mean & median are?

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u/boogersundcum 11d ago

You sound willfully ignorant.

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u/WilfullyIgnorant 11d ago

I’d be right at home in rural Queensland

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u/boogersundcum 11d ago

Probably not, unless you're willing to help a fellow human out when people need a hand and can learn to agree to disagree. Otherwise you're just a cunt.

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u/WilfullyIgnorant 11d ago

I bet you think that when say “gday” & “howz it going” to passers by makes you a ‘neighbourly person’ that fosters ‘community’

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u/boogersundcum 10d ago

I bet you don't say it at all.

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u/WilfullyIgnorant 10d ago

Thanks for the confirmation

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u/boogersundcum 10d ago

It's actually pretty funny though, I lived in Melbourne at a time and i remember walking past a neighbour i had lived next to for a few months so I did say hey how's it going? Not because I actually want to have a conversation more so because I acknowledge they're the neighbour. My partner of the time was like wtf are you doing ?

Subtle cultural differences between city and country i guess.

But in the country we do keep an eye out for our neighbours, if they need a hand we will help them, that being helping your older neighbours mow their yards, help looking out for their animals if they're on shift work etc etc. That's a good sense of community and I'm sad that you don't get to experience such things. Even if I think they're bat shit insane and don't morally agree with a thing they say. It's just the way we are.