Resources Roadhouse Issue 40

All eyes are on the Big Pineapple this week as the Queensland State election is finally held.

There hasn’t been so much anticipation and excitement in the land of the white-shod pensioner since Matilda, the winking kangaroo opened the 1982 Commonwealth Games.

The Roadhouse has volunteered its services as a polling booth this Saturday for any Banana-Benders out on the road, be they grey nomads or old members of Bob Hawke’s surf team who still haven’t found their way home.

We were setting up the cardboard booths and sharpening all the HB pencils in the lounge bar when a sudden commotion emerged from the kitchen.

With a metal colander on his head, living Australian legend Clive Palmer was incoherently babbling something about scientologists, the CIA and that we all needed to cram into his DeLorean and drive to some futuristic coal mine.

It was an unwelcome distraction from the interesting chat we were having with Canyon Resources managing director Phillip Gallagher, who had just dropped by for one of The Roadhouse’s famous steak sandwiches.

Seeing the kitchen’s colander perch atop Big Clive’s bonce, Roadhouse Regular Peter Hayes quickly changed his order from Spaghetti Bolognese to a Ham and Cheese toastie.

It all happens at The Roadhouse.