Noel Pearson is one of Australia’s most intelligent, articulate and thoughtful Aboriginal leaders but surely it’s time he started to reflect on what he’s been saying and doing lately, writes Alex Mitchell.
Far north queensland
Bahnisch: ALP not out of the hunt in Dawson
Queensland is Australia’s most decentralised state in population terms, and unsurprisingly, local and regional factors feature strongly outside the capital. So it would be quite wrong to read off polls taken in Brisbane and assume any sort of uniform swing, writes Mark Bahnisch.
Tips and rumours
Dick Pratt’s net worth appears to increase by approximately $200 million every year, or $10 for every Australian. Surely a class action by the whole population is the way to recover all of his ill-gotten gains. And why have they not taken away all his honours as they did with that former Queensland Police Commissioner?
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Same s-x rights hopes dashed
Malcolm Turnbull has started wooing the gay community, pledging to remove discrimination in campaign material distributed in the pink suburbs Darlinghurst, Paddington and Potts Point last weekend, the Sydney Star Observer reports.
Australia’s funniest workplace videos … now on u-nion tube
Last week it was WA CFMEU assistant secretary Joe McDonald. Who will be the next union heavy to get caught on candid camera?
