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Coast versus Inland: Two Different Queenslands?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

John Holmes
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The statement that ‘Queensland is different’ is entrenched within the folklore of Australian political and social commentary. The case is not persuasive, certainly no more so than the case that Tasmania or South Australia or any other state is ‘different’. Those who have pursued the argument have focused selectively on the modicum of differences reasonably to be expected among the peoples, institutions and socio-political processes and preoccupations of six ‘sovereign’ states.

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Queensland Review , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , June 1994 , pp. 14 - 27
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