Why wasn’t I surprised when an ex-school principal took part in a military-style exercise shooting and killing three people? Guns have always been a part of the frontier. Queensland is still a frontier state. Don’t talk to me about the driving, the unwillingness to use vehicle indicators to signal when your car is going to turn, the high-speed pursuit-like behaviour on the Bruce Highway north of Brisbane, the tendency of people living in the north of the state (a state which is the size of Alaska) to refer to people living in the southeast as “Mexicans”. Julian Assange grew up in the north, he wrote the book on distrusting the authorities, and is still languishing in prison because of his radical ideas. Queensland has a frontier problem. Nathaniel Train might’ve worked in NSW but it was a remote part of that state, and it was just a short distance across the border in Queensland where he found his apotheosis, the solution to all his problems, and of the problem of living alongside othe...