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Crikey is offering two ways to test your political skills with Queensland election contests.

I wonder if this is the kind of message James Packer expected to be promoting?

FAQ Research’s Dr Mark Bahnisch interviewed Bob Katter MP, federal Member for Kennedy and leader of Katter’s Australian Party and Queensland Greens Senator Larissa Waters at the February 20 Jondaryan Big Day Out protest against coal seam gas and coal mining on prime agricultural land.

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.

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?

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

There was always something strange about the combination of the Queensland Liberal and National parties into a single Liberal National Party.

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 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.