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Jemima Burt 

Power of the youth vote changes Queensland's political landscape

Engineer Hugh Thomas voted for the LNP at the 2019 federal election, but this time put the Greens first. (ABC News: Eddie Gill)

It is voters like 28-year-old Hugh Thomas who changed Queensland's political landscape at this weekend's federal election.

He lives in Clayfield, on the northern edge of the Brisbane electorate – one of three inner-city seats where the Greens are ahead in the vote count.

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