Anna Bligh remains keen to recruit an outsider to replace Mike Kaiser as her chief-of-staff, in an effort to halt the destabilisation campaign that has seen nearly every member of her inner circle linked to a mutiny attempt.
Qld ALP
How Bligh blew the QLD premiership
Just eight months after Anna Bligh was elected QLD premier, voter satisfaction has dropped to just 30%, thanks to privatisation of state assets, broken election promises and scrapping petrol subsides. Is her decline terminal? asks Cosima Marriner.
The growing force of Barnaby Joyce
Queensland is critical to federal politics, with a growing population and influential seats, but its parties are a mess. The Nationals criticise the Liberals, the Libs fear the power of the LNP and Barnaby Joyce is just looking after himself, writes Scott Prasser.
Too many ruined lives in the wake of the Beattie Government
Eventually, the culture of bullying and cronyism that marked the Beattie Government in Queensland must surely be exposed. There are too many unanswered questions, too many ruined lives and wrecked careers, to stay in denial about it forever.
Anna Bligh’s very bad week
Anna Bligh certainly wasn’t exaggerating when she observed that Queensland Labor had a bad week, writes Mark Bahnisch — nor has this week started off well for her.
Trust in Bligh has dried up
The Queensland state government is in dire trouble, dropping 10% in support since the election and the two-party-preferred now sitting at 41-59. It all comes down to one issue: Queenslanders believe that corruption is again rife.
Bligh always on the back foot
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh is strong and decisive when it comes to policy, but stumbles on politicking, says Sean Parnell.
Galaxy: 59-41 to LNP in QLD
Following a horror week for the Queensland government, a Galaxy survey shows a further plunge in support for QLD Labor, the LNP’s two-party lead opening up to 59-41.
States can’t be run by mates
Premier Anna Bligh’s new political anti-corruption laws in Queensland are desperately required. But all states need more to be done, writes The Australian.
Political snippets: Why QLD politics got the feminine touch
Why Peter Beattie handing the Premier’s reins in Queensland to Anna Bligh should have been a tip-off to just how crook things there have become, South Korean dog meat, and more meaty chunks of news from the mind of Richard Farmer.
Queensland: a sunny place for shady politics
Queenslanders may not have moved so far beyond the Bjelke-Petersen era as they would like to think; his legacy of mixing government with business lives on under a secretive and self-serving Labor government, says Scott Prasser.
Tips and rumours: Building stalls on the Education Revolution
Funding has taken a step backwards in the government’s “Education Revolution”, factional fun in the Queensland ALP left, is Isobel Redmond getting ambitious? and more from Crikey’s tipsters.
Qld ALP heavy to take the fall for Bligh campaign
A secret report has isolated ‘systemic failures’ in the ALP’s recent Queensland campaign, writes Bernard Keane.
What’s with Anna Bligh?
The Bligh government has continued down its merry path of trashing Labor policy, writes Mark Bahnisch.
Bligh Budget: written by Kevin and the banks
Anna Bligh’s budget was imposed on her newly-elected government by the federal Government of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and the banks.
Little clarity in Qld’s bush-clearing moratorium
A ban on the clearing of regrowth vegetation has raised Queensland hackles.
