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They’re killing COAG slowly — here’s a cure
As COAG groans under unmet expectations, critics want it scrapped. Governance expert Stephen Bartos takes a closer look and prescribes a cure for COAG’s woes.
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Hot-desking at Fairfax … Newman funds KFC … updating our literary pollies list …
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Tips and rumours
Qld public servants moving house? … outspoken Young Labor chief in hot water … Vic council sponsors Malcolm Turnbull …
READ MOREVic v Qld v NSW: who’s the winner of the first-term governments?
Three Coalition premiers are running the east coast states. A Crikey analysis of their economies shows Barry O’Farrell is streets ahead, while Victoria marks time and Queensland is in the doldrums.
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Crikey Clarifier: local government recognition in the constitution
Would recognising local government in the constitution protect essential services or undermine states’ rights? Public policy and governance expert Stephen Bartos answers Crikey’s questions.
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Gillard finds a circuit-breaker in Sydney, but at what cost?
Julia Gillard had a good week campaigning in western Sydney. But what will the long-term cost be of Labor’s populist, anti-immigration rhetoric?
READ MOREQld’s health blueprint a clarion call for privatising services
The Queensland government has proposed radical changes to the delivery of health services that need careful consideration. But it doesn’t seem to be waiting for consultation.
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Hold the phone, Newman brought scandal onto himself
Campbell Newman has lost a minister and a hand-picked departmental head. His regret is sincere, but nobody else seems to know what they’ve done wrong.
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Miners, developers pile in to fund Newman’s LNP campaign
Big political donors ditched Anna Bligh’s failing government and put their money behind Campbell Newman’s bid for the Queensland premiership, data from the AEC reveals.
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Sentia Media index: Armstrong tops state pollie peloton
Moving up the Sentia Media political index this week were state politicians Campbell Newman and Jay Weatherill, while Lance Armstrong nearly doubled Julia Gillard’s coverage figures thanks to his Oprah confessional.
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Why Clive and Bob are running Queensland politics
A political void has left Clive Palmer and Bob Katter in the spotlight in Queensland. They pose twin but very different threats to Campbell Newman’s government and conservative forces down south.
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Newman’s war on “must” … PMO poaches from Jenny Macklin … The Global Mail keeps it in the family …
READ MOREThere’s plenty behind LNP’s voluntary voting thought bubble
The Queensland LNP’s proposal on voluntary voting is aimed at creating a diversion, seeking partisan advantage and creating a smokescreen to hide possible changes on political donations.
READ MOREFrom Can Do to can’t hold it together: Newman’s struggle
There’s something in the water in Queensland politics. Here’s the tale of how Campbell Newman, swept to power with a thumping majority, is now under pressure from inside and outside his party.
READ MOREParty mole: what’s going wrong in Campbell Newman’s LNP
As the Queensland government loses another MP today, an anonymous party insider explains what’s behind the Liberal-National Party turmoil and how Campbell Newman could try to fix it.
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Sentia Media index: slush fund sucks up political oxygen
The AWU scandal has sucked the political oxygen out of the media, with all the key players dominating headlines and social media chatter, writes Sentia Media’s John Chalmers.
READ MORECrikey says: a yellowcake business in decline?
Is it the surplus we had to have, or just the one we deserve? Are the good people of the ACT going to get the government they deserve (or voted for)? Why aren’t more women deserving of promotion in the Liberal Party? And does Hedley Thomas deserve all those Walkley nominations?
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RBA now controls the economics of next year’s federal election
The economic environment in which next year’s federal election will be fought will be affected in large part by how the RBA responds to a worsening international situation.
READ MORECognitive dissonance as Newman flails the coal industry
Concerns about the quality of Australian management, once claimed to be partisan sniping, are now shared by a conservative premier. That didn’t fit the narrative at all.
READ MOREQld budget: health cuts go to political vitality of Newman
Health sector stakeholder reaction to the Queensland budget has been adverse, writes Dr Mark Bahnisch.
READ MOREQuiggin: Qld’s no-ideas budget will hurt where it counts
Queensland Treasurer Tim Nicholls’ first budget is a startling exercise in self-contradiction. Health services will be the worst hit, writes John Quiggin
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ReachTEL: Labor ahead in Campbell Newman’s home turf
The latest ReachTEL poll targets Campbell Newman’s electorate of Ashgrove and has Labor 51.5-48.5 ahead, compared with Newman’s 55.7-44.3 win at the state election, reports William Bowe.
READ MOREWild rivers, wild debate: green groups pin hopes on feds
The Queensland government’s stranglehold makes its pledge to roll back the Wild Rivers Act to allow more development in Cape York destined to succeed. But opponents have one trick up their sleeve.
READ MOREQuiggin: Qld isn’t Greece or Spain — acting like it could hurt
Campbell Newman’s hyperbolic claims that Queensland is on the verge of becoming the “Spain of Australia” have been rightly derided. So how do the books really look?
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