Nothing on the drive into Yarrabah indicates that a national election is only a few days away.
As you drive past sugar cane farms and along a beautifully winding seaside road, you noticeably lack the candidate posters that are unavoidable in other areas of Australia.
The only item vying for attention after entering this little Indigenous hamlet in Cairns in far north Queensland, where fishing nets are positioned on shores flanked with palm trees, is an ice cream truck that is urgently ringing a bell while avoiding the untamed dogs and horses that prowl the streets.
The chief executive of Gurriny Yealamucka Health Services in the town, Suzanne Andrews, describes the situation as “weird.” “No signs are visible to us. Nobody is coming to see us.
