Bob Katter is a lot of things. But despite white supremacists trying to claim him in an email campaign, he’s not a racist. Anthony Galloway, a reporter at The Northern Miner, writes from Charters Towers.
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Queensland election a tale of two campaigns
The LNP should be worried — now — that there’s talk around of Campbell Newman having a fallback strategy of forcing a byelection somewhere if his party wins, but he loses, writes Mark Bahnisch of Larvatus Prodeo.
Poll Bludger: double whammy for major parties in Qld
Under normal circumstances, the only point at issue in the upcoming Queensland election would be the precise scale of the impending conservative landslide.
Qld poll: Greens, Katter, indies the shape of things to come
Anna Bligh is expected to take Queensland back to the polls within weeks. In the third of a series of reports from Larvatus Prodeo, Mark Bahnisch looks at the impact of the independents and third parties.
It’s a tall order for Labor to stand tall in Queensland poll
Queensland will be at the polls within weeks, with Labor facing a resurgent LNP under Campbell Newman. In the second of a series of reports from Mark Bahnisch, what are Anna Bligh’s chances?
Political snippets: Make it a real conscience vote
One thing that most elected politicians really dislike is fair dinkum democracy. When they talk about “a conscience vote” they certainly do not mean that your opinion and mine should decide an issue.
Who killed economic reform? Maybe we all did
There’s plenty of blame to go around for the death of the economic reform project. But was popular resentment of its impacts the ultimate killer?
Political snippets: A gun example
Labor learned one thing from the defeat of Barrie Unsworth’s government all those years ago — it is not the opinions of a sensible majority that matters on election day but the militant minority who feel strongly about an issue.
Katter’s party to shake up Queensland poll
In the eyes of some, the emergence of Bob Katter’s Australian Party has the potential to shake up what had loomed as a predictable Queensland state election, due around March.
Political snippets: Don’t underestimate the man in the hat
Underneath the hat there’s a shrewd player of the political game and I think he’ll prove it when his Katter’s Australian Party offers itself to voters for the first time.
Newspoll: Liberal National Party’s overwhelming lead in Queensland
Career opportunities for aspiring Queensland Labor politicians are clearly going to be thin on the ground for a few years to come. The Liberal National Party are polling 61-39 two-party preferred, writes William Bowe.
Cracks in the strange creation of Queensland’s Liberal National Party
There was always something strange about the combination of the Queensland Liberal and National parties into a single Liberal National Party. Bob Katter may have rained on Campbell Newman’s parade, writes Richard Farmer.
Political snippets: Cracks in the strange LNP partnership
There was always something strange about the combination of the Queensland Liberal and National parties into a single Liberal National Party.
Duped by Katter, a ‘civil libertarian’ as long as you’re not gay
James Newburrie, a modest, honest and courteous man, armoured with the knowledge that what he is doing is right and necessary, and will take his stand opposite Bob Katter’s office Sunday, writes Doug Pollard.
Power Shots: Not-so-powerful Arbib … BlueScope’s bad timing … Katter on bro’s stand …
Not so long ago Mark Arbib was Australia’s No. 1 political powerbroker. Paul Barry looks into why he comes in at number three. Also, fixing legend John Faulkner, bad bonus timing at BlueScope and Bob Katter responds to his brother’s stand on gay marriage.
The Power Index The man behind Katter’s AEC party name rejection
The man responsible for ending the possibility of Bob Katter abbreviating his Katter’s Australian Party name to “Australian Party” is David Doe, a man who has been highly active in the video games censorship debate, writes Angela Priestley.
The Power Index Power Shots: Nick Minchin, keeper of the Howard flame … NGV’s power benefactor …
Leader of the Right and keeper of the Howard flame, Nick Minchin is still regarded by some as the Liberal Party’s spiritual leader. Also, the NGV’s power benefactor, Alan Joyce finds friends in the market and Bolt and Negus back in 2012.
Qantas: Katter says buy it back, Xenophon wants audit of losses
The political dimension of the Qantas restructuring had a high-noon blast-off in Canberra today when members of all parties held a press conference with key Qantas unions officials.
Political snippets: Gutsy Gillard gets a 10
Why the delay in disqualifying Sky News from the tender process to provide Australia’s government financed international television service?
podcast Canberra Calling: The happy days are at an end my friends podcast
This week Canberra Corespondent Bernard Keane and Crikey’s editor Sophie Black tackle the live export trade, Labor’s divide over the Malaysian detention of asylum seekers and … Bob Katter.
Rundle: crazy Katter’s cut-price, fried policy chain
Bob Katter stood up on Friday and spoke for those sidelined, excluded and marginalised from politics, the real Australians who work hard and pay their taxes, and don’t ask for more than a fair shake. Good luck to him.
Oakeshott capitulates over financial advice reforms
Reforms designed to restore confidence in the financial services sector are at risk of being derailed following intense lobbying, writes James Frost, of Eureka Report.
Crikey Says: More tanks where Katter’s come from
It’s easy to laugh at Bob Katter, who has years of form in threatening to establish new political parties, and who yesterday was talking about a “new political direction” and the “tanks and ammunition” that he had for it.
Crabb: The giant sooking babies leading our country
This new paradigm is more of a new play pen, with Australian politicians trading the most pathetic insults and playing childish games with each other, writes Annabel Crabb.
