Reopening Gladstone Harbour to fishing has clearly put public health at risk, so much so the the local fish market has banned the sale of them, writes Crikey naturalist Lionel Elmore.
Queensland government
Media briefs: SMH, Age to ditch broadsheet? … Mother Murdoch defies News Ltd …
In today’s Media Briefs: Front Page of the Day … The Department of Corrections … The Age and 3AW buyout rejected … Mother Murdoch defies News Ltd stance on carbon tax …
Rundle: crazy Katter’s cut-price, fried policy chain
Bob Katter stood up on Friday and spoke for those sidelined, excluded and marginalised from politics, the real Australians who work hard and pay their taxes, and don’t ask for more than a fair shake. Good luck to him.
Benjamin Law: the Passion of the Campbell
Campbell Newman has become the phantom menace of Queensland parliament, says Benjamin Law, the unseen Sith Lord pulling the strings from behind the curtain. He’s already riding high in the polls, but the policy cupboard is bare.
Only in Qld… Campbell’s the new man in the hot seat
Events these past couple of days concerning state politics of the non-Labor kind, again give credence to the view that Queensland is different, writes professor Scott Prasser, executive director of the Public Policy Institute at Australian Catholic University.
Hughie wants to wrestle over Queensland union power feud
The election of a new secretary for the Queensland branch of the Transport Workers Union has turned into a bitter personal feud that also exposes the political power struggle in the labour movement under embattled premier Anna Bligh. And the aftermath could be messy, writes Brad Gardner.
The deeper sleeper issue for QR National
With the closing of the retail offer, the float of QR National is entering its final phase. There remains considerable confusion about how well the attempt to raise between about $3.6 billion and $5 billion in the biggest privatisation since Telstra is tracking.
Essential: state by state breakdown
A new Essential Research poll has the Victorian election too close to call. And in NSW Labor faces a huge swing - though perhaps not as bad as expected.
Labor finally realises how much it needs preferences
Anna Bligh’s thought bubble, in which the Queensland premier on Tuesday floated the idea of returning the state to compulsory preferential voting, has not gone down very well. Probably because Labor will win from the move, says Charles Richardson.
It really was the economy, stupid: how Queensland dragged down Labor
Queensland voters punished the Labor Party severely in Saturday’s poll, and perhaps a weak state economy played a much bigger role in the outcome than many commentators realise.
Carbon-free reporting? Not when it’s about old king coal’s new palace
Readers of media reports on the Queensland government’s go-ahead late last week for the Caval Ridge coal mine in Queensland could be forgiven for thinking that the BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) project will be carbon free, writes Bob Burton, a Hobart-based freelance journalist.
Floods and levees: the regulatory failure that’s putting lives at risk
Queensland’s unregulated approach to water management is potentially putting lives at risk as levees proliferate across central Queensland
Where’s the F word … err fructose … in healthy thinking debate?
Overweight children eat more and exercise less because they are fat, not the other way round, and the Queensland government’s Smart Choices initiative will do nothing to change that.
Aboriginal people have good reason to be mistrustful of health services
Historically speaking, health services have been part and parcel of racist policies. Which is why Aboriginal people have reason to be suspicious of Australian mainstream health services.
The elephant in the middle of the freeway: peak oil
Market forces will not be able to create additional oil beyond that with which the world has been endowed, writes Bruce Robinson.
Shooting down some Wild Rivers myths
Lionel Elmore’s panning of the protection of rivers on Cape York, is full of holes, writes Lyndon Schneiders.
Queensland Labor resurgent: 57-43
What’s going on in Queensland? asks Larvatus Prodeo’s Mark Bahnisch.
Life a misery for the staff of Ronan Lee MP
New claims have emerged of mistreatment of electorate office staff by several other Queensland Labor MPs which have been ignored by the Queensland ALP and Queensland Parliament, writes Bernard Keane.
Wrecked lives and compensation: the MP staffer scandal
Elections are no preparation for many of the tasks required of MPs, writes Bernard Keane.
Take off the Rose-coloured glasses Australian Story!
Australian Story as another media trawling of the Rose Beattie saga comes up with little more than water haul, writes Chris Johnson.
Ronan Lee: my wallet doesn’t contain photos of a foetus
It is a pity that Crikey has chosen to publish a range of
misleading statements about me obviously sourced from my political opponents, writes Ronan Lee.
Ronan Lee and the Greens, strange bedfellows indeed
The Greens are buying themselves trouble with Queensland MP Ronan Lee, writes Bernard Keane.
QLD election promise hospital fails health check
The much vaunted Beattie Government election promise of a $1b plus Queensland Children’s Hospital “delivering exceptional health services” is proving a nightmare for the Bligh government, writes a Queensland doctor.
