‘They brought their politics with them’: will Queensland’s newest residents affect the election?

Psychotherapist River Streader left a sharehouse in Melbourne to move back to Brisbane during the pandemic. Photograph: Dan Peled/The Guardian

A little more than a year ago, River Streader swapped a Coburg sharehouse for one in Kangaroo Point – returning to their hometown of Brisbane after a decade in Melbourne.

The 30-year-old spent their time in Melbourne working as psychotherapist, tattoo artist and punk musician, while previously voting Greens, independent and “Labor-ish”.