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Tin Tin actually went to a rugby-type boarding school that produced a lot of Wallaby players - and hated it. He was not a sports kind of bloke.
So good luck talking rugby with Ms Palaszczuk. The ALP in Queensland knows one kind of rugby, and that's rugby league. RA better bring a good deal to the table because there are no votes for them in rugby union, which is also well behind AFL or soccer.
All this talk about John Howard and Mike Horan is eons ago. The nineties (and very early noughties) were the heyday for rugby in Queensland ... Australia too, for that matter ... but those days are looong gone. Did the Abbott government, led by an ex-rugger, reverse Rudd's reversal to, y'know, wheel out the election pork barrel? Of course not.
Rugby's influence has declined from a low position to an even lower one.