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Christopher Testa
Verified
Journalist, ABC News (Australia)
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multicultural and indigenous affairsnews and current affairs, Health, human interest. sport, novelty
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By Christopher Testa Verified, Conor Byrne Verified| ABC News (Australia) Verified In some parts of Far North Queensland, paying $3 a litre for fuel – twice as much as other Queenslanders – is just a fact of life. The electorate of Leichhardt spans 150,000 square kilometres and stretches from suburban Cairns, all the way through Cape York to the Torres Strait. Live: Albanese and Dutton both in PerthThe median weekly income is $200 less than the average Australian and locals say the cost of living is only becoming harder to bear.
The northerly key seat that hangs on a knife edge. Predicting a winner for Leichhardt will be foolhardy - ABC listen
By Conor Byrne Verified, Christopher Testa Verified| Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Verified Leichhardt is Australia's 10th largest seat, larger than Greece. It's the only seat with an international border. Far north Queensland can suffer bushfires and cyclones — in the same day. The populations include the metropolitan tourist mecca of Cairns to impoverished remote Aboriginal communities. This seat is about to be vacated by incumbent LNP stalwart Warren Entsch. But both of the major parties think they have a shot. Conor Byrne reports.
By Christopher Testa Verified, Sophie Mcmanus| ABC News (Australia) Verified The PM arrives in the far north promising half the funds for a $490 million replacement bridge over the Barron River near Cairns. Locals say the funding is needed but governments should consider a new highway over the mountain range to the Atherton Tablelands. Neither side of politics has committed to investigating an alternative route over the Kuranda Range.
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ABC News (Australia)
Kauhava, South Ostrobothnia, Finland