The blog post that got a Courier-Mail subbie sacked, no news probably isn’t good news for Ian Macfarlane, customs staff don’t land on Free Parking, and a tasty tip-off on the McPherson LNP preselection candidates.
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Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: The McPherson LNP preselection candidates revealed
Constituents not happy about Dutton dumping Dickson
Last week a disgruntled LNP member from Peter Dutton’s seat of Dickson wrote to Crikey venting their spleen at Dutton’s decision to abandon the seat for Margaret May’s seat of McPherson.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: sports-star gets off the news cycle
Which sportsperson has managed to keep his womanising ways out of the front pages — and how? When will Multiplex suck it up? Which LNP press secretary has been getting rough with the media? Crikey tipsters tell all.
Wild Rivers get murkier and murkier
Even the keywords “Crosby-Textor” have had an airing as the Wilderness Society and indigenous groups battle over Queensland’s Wild Rivers Act.
Tips and rumours: The ABS is not your mate
An unfriendly rule at the ABS, jobs may be going at the The Australian Public Service Commission, the LNP go into lockdown, and more from our tipsters.
Tips and rumours: PM staffers can’t switch off
More tales of PM staffers struggling to part with technology while flying the friendly skies, and insider news from the LNP AGMs.
Desperate LNP phones a friend over Chatsworth
A full eight weeks after the polls closed in Queensland, the to-and-fro over the state seat of Chatsworth continues to bumble along.
Tips and rumours: Accountants cash in on stimulus payments
One tipster explains how accountants processessing stimulus payments are charging for the service, and which law firm is penalising its Brisbane and Melbourne employees for its Sydney office losses?
Tips and rumours: Tensions are high in the Young LNP
Why are tensions high in the Young LNP? And which Jennifer Hawkins’ fashion spread has Myer fuming?
Queensland: hardly a triumph for democracy
Two weeks on, and results from the Queensland election are now final. Charles Richardson reflects.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: PETA applauds Rudd’s vegetarian stance
Mr Rudd may have spit the dummy on a RAAF flight at the prospect of having his diet derailed by a fatty meat meal, but who wouldn’t? writes PETA’s Alistair Cornell.
Tips and rumours: Archie the celebrity dolphin harrassed
LNP leadership … Archie the celebrity dolphin … No wonder “credible” journos are taking their jobs
Hot dentist with famous sibling to lead LNP
Queensland has a new opposition leader: former Liberal and Member for Surfers Paradise, John-Paul Langbroek, writes Mark Bahnisch.
Queensland gives hope to the hopeless
The ALP has won a lot of elections in the last decade, but few of them have confounded expectations as much as Saturday’s victory in Queensland, writes Charles Richardson.
Springborg’s stuff ups summoned the ghost of Joh
The ALP exploited Springborg’s ineloquence to the hilt during the campaign, and it worked, writes Bernard Keane.
Pineapple Party Time QLD election wrap
What we had expected would be a long night was over in a flash, writes Mark Bahnisch.
The LNP takeover was the root of Liberal woes
A 3.5% swing is, in the end, a poor justification for the Nationals’ takeover of the Queensland Liberal Party, writes Bernard Keane.
LNP’s Queensland stories are not true
An alert reader has drawn our attention to a discrepancy in one of the “stories” presented to Queenslanders by LNP advertisements, writes Bernard Keane.
QLD seat of Beaudesert: Pauline or the yoof?
The LNP has handed what should be a reasonably safe seat to a local youth whose main claim to fame is invading the stage of the 2005 final episode of Big Brother to publicise his band, writes Bernard Keane.
Disputes Committee? What Disputes Committee?
The fact that a Disputes Committee has not even been established until after preselections are over indicates a remarkable faith in the amity of LNP candidates, writes Bernard Keane.
Springborg’s leadership question
There’s little politicians can do when the press declares war on them, fairly or unfairly. But declaring war on the press rarely works, writes Bernard Keane.
Is the LNP sleepwalking to defeat in Queensland?
There’s alarm within LNP ranks at both the policy direction of the party and the lack of former Liberal Party members willing to assist in the campaign, reports Bernard Keane.
Australia revealed: Issues management
As we pull into the final week of the campaign, it’s time to take a look at where various issues might be biting.
Australia Revealed: Positive or negative
It is the greatest puzzle of this campaign: why are voters planning to change the government when the economy is so good? We’ve dug into the Morgan data to identify two different sets of voters – those who say they are optimistic about the future and those who believe there’s too much change going on.
