Queensland's Green New Deal

Palaszczuk's boast of a renewable energy superstate flies in the face of reality

No one knows how much it will cost to wire the Queensland Outback up to the National Electricity Grid or if this ambitious project will ever be finished. Yet Annastacia Palaszczuk’s vision of turning Queensland into the green superstate means that high voltage power lines from Townsville to Mt Isa have become a spending priority.

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