Federal election 2019: Love Australia or Leave Party uniquely Qld

After 25 years Pauline Hanson might qualify as a political dinosaur. Is this the woman who might out-Hanson her?

THE deadline for nominations has come and gone, and the field is now set for the 2019 election.

With all participating parties registered by the Australian Electoral Commission, it’s always instructive to witness how Queensland never fails to offer up something unique to the altar of democracy.

Pauline Hanson denies link between humans and climate change

Love Australia or Leave’s Kim Vuga in Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal

The Love Australia or Leave Party, for example, pledges a “dedicated incarceration facility for terrorists’’ if it wins power in the May contest.

Headed by Townsville-based Kim Vuga, “LALP’’, which has been registered since 2016, should be congratulated for some outside-the-box-thinking.

But where to build our own Guantanamo Bay?

Love Australia or Leave Party founder Kim Vuga

Don’t take it on the road

JASON Clare is no Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the comedian set to become Ukraine’s next president, but he did make a funny today worth a mention.

With Labor leader Bill Shorten by his side in Gladstone, the Opposition spokesman for northern Australia derided the Coalition’s $5 billion Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF), which Labor will scrap, for not building any infrastructure.

“It should be called the No Actual Infrastructure Facility,’’ quipped Clare, in a gag that received a muted reaction.

It was not exactly Wildean in its wit, but was not a bad effort considering the low benchmark Clare is starting from in a rather sombre campaign.

Hanson no dinosaur

PAULINE Hanson has been a figure in most federal elections for a quarter of a century, which might qualify her as a political dinosaur, but don’t think for a moment she’s about to become extinct.

Still fighting her corner in 2019, Hanson was today defending the right of the Adani coalmine to go ahead, while simultaneously clearing the human race of any culpability in the death of the dinosaur.

Hanson, interviewed on Channel 10, mounted a courageous rebuttal of the climate change crew who would block Adani on the basis that humans activities have caused around 100 per cent of the CO2 emissions causing global warming.

“What happened to the dinosaurs, how did they die off?” Hanson asked.

“Humans didn’t create it.”

Apparently not.

Asteriods are believed to have destroyed the dinosaur.

There is a broader point in there somewhere if you’re willing to seeking it out.