The best bit is her actual background and how that got her into politics. She owned a fish and chip shop in a particular region in Queensland (which I compare to Alabama).
Probably a misrepresentation, it is a very big and diverse state. Honestly would be more applicable to compare it to an entire region. We do have large reptiles though.. so there's that..
Not really, if you know the history of Queensland. For 20 years they were ruled by a politician called (Sir) Joh Bjelke-Petersen. The guy was a straight-up fascist who oversaw massive racism and police brutality against blacks, hippies and other "undesirables", police corruption going all the way to the top, etc.
About a month after one specific act of police brutality for which he absolved state police, they attacked a hippie commune and burned their houses to the ground (Cedar Bay). It was the start of the cops realizing they could get away with just about anything in Queensland. This is why I compare them to places like Alabama in the Deep South: because the state police openly acted something like the KKK up there, with the full government support.
I don't know if Alabama was even this bad. The Queensland Police Commissioner back then resigned and publicly said that Queensland was becoming a corrupt police state which had similarities to the Nazi regime. He was replaced by a guy hand-picked by the Premier, who later came unstuck for massive corruption. They banned public assembly in Queensland at this time, so you couldn't have a public protest without getting smacked about by police batons. And the premier had a special police unit which reported directly to him, dedicated to digging up dirt on other political parties. Plus he did the whole McCarthy thing where anyone who opposed him politically was secret a Communist. And he wanted to secede from Australia and turn Queensland into his private one-party dictatorship.
That's for real. So when I say there's an insane fascist streak in Queensland, on par with the crazies in USA's Deep South, I'm not exaggerating.