States can’t be run by matesPremier Anna Bligh’s new political anti-corruption laws in Queensland are desperately required. But all states need more to be done, writes The Australian.
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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.
