HE PACKERS’ GHOST TREK centres on a small but prosperous corner of an almost-state that was sought not long after colonisation by British politician Harold Finch-Hatton. He spent eight years in the colonies of Queensland, New South Wales and journal that most North Queensland inhabitants “demand complete and territorial separation from the South”. He railed against the “misappropriation” of the remote north’s resources by administrators in the state’s south-east and derided the imposition of a tax upon machinery imported into the colony.
