I’m in Queensland, talent-scouting for swing-voters for SBS Insight. In my travel kit is a new camera about the size of an mobile phone, the Flip Mino HD. I snapped these two very different views from two hotel rooms, in two very different parts of Queensland – the first, from the salubrious upper floors of a posh hotel overlooking the river, the other from a motor inn by the noisy Pacific Motorway heading south.

Brisbane, city centre. From the 27th floor of the Brisbane Sebel on Charlotte Street, taken on a small Flip Mino HD camera from 4.15pm-5.15pm, near the shortest day of the year.

Springwood, Logan City. Taken out the security mesh of Room 10 at the Springwood Hotel and Tavern. From bed you got two things from Maccas: a bar of their free wifi, and the constant waft of the deep frier.