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Is there any way to stop a Queensland mine? Queensland-based freelance journalist Amanda Gearing investigates the effectiveness of an environmental impact statement (hint: not much).

Within weeks of floating it, the Queensland government has backed away from its dramatic new vision for an efficient, high-frequency bus network for south-east Queensland. Alan Davies explains why.

Queensland may allow the shipping of uranium over the Great Barrier Reef. Is this a danger to one of Australia’s most treasured natural assets? Crikey intern Tim Fitzpatrick investigates.

The Queensland government has proposed radical changes to the delivery of health services that need careful consideration. But it doesn’t seem to be waiting for consultation.

There’s something in the water in Queensland politics. Here’s the tale of how Campbell Newman, swept to power with a thumping majority, is now under pressure from inside and outside his party.

As the Queensland government loses another MP today, an anonymous party insider explains what’s behind the Liberal-National Party turmoil and how Campbell Newman could try to fix it.

Is it the surplus we had to have, or just the one we deserve? Are the good people of the ACT going to get the government they deserve (or voted for)? Why aren’t more women deserving of promotion in the Liberal Party? And does Hedley Thomas deserve all those Walkley nominations?

Recent changes to Queensland laws represent once of the most significant rollbacks of gay and lesbian rights by a government in the Western world.

Queensland Arts Minister Ros Bates fired her top arts bureaucrat for a speech she plagiarised from Labor. But Bates was in the chamber when the speech she copied was first read out. Ben Eltham reports on the turmoil up north.

Saving a few extra dollars can cause all sorts of unwanted attention. That’s the situation Queensland Premier Campbell Newman finds himself in after axing respected arts awards.

New Queensland premier Campbell Newman’s new appointments to the top of the state bureaucracy are an unwelcome politicisation of key public service roles.

The erratic response to the still-unfolding disaster in and around Gladstone Habour is still a headache for both sides of the argument, writes Crikey naturalist Lionel Elmore.

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.

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.

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.