ALAN Jones may be a big noise on the Sydney scene, but yesterday he came back to the state where he was born and bred in his now-familiar role as a fierce opponent of coal-seam gas.
Jones has already appeared once in this election at a rally organised by the Lock the Gate movement, but that was on the Darling Downs, near his birthplace, and near the farms most affected by CSG exploration.
Yesterday, Lock the Gate came to the city, again displaying one of the most unusual unity tickets ever seen in politics, Katter's Australian Party rubbing shoulders with the Greens.
The two major parties largely avoid the rural grassroots movement, but not completely. Nationals senator Barnaby Joyce appeared at the forum yesterday at the Brisbane Convention Centre.
And a protest march earlier in the day on LNP leader Campbell Newman's campaign office included a woman wearing a "Keep Kate" T-shirt -- a reference to Kate Jones, the ALP MP who holds the seat of Ashgrove he counts on winning.
The Australian
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