For Sale: one vote in the QLD electionAuthor John Birmingham is offering up his vote in the upcoming Queensland election for $500, since, as Birmingham says, it’d be cheaper than any other policy Cap’n Bligh and Campbell’s Soup Can will come up with.
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How the Gold Coast lost its shine
Queensland’s Gold Coast is a magical place where beautiful men and women do nothing but tan their perfectly sculpted bodies, and children run amok the beaches in theme parks. Well, that’s how Caroline Zielinski remembered it, but the latest trip showed something different.
Abortion, Queensland and a law unchanged since 1861
One woman’s story of travelling interstate to abort a child with a severe abnormality highlights Queensland’s antiquated abortion laws. Dr Caroline de Costa explains.
Madonna King: Clouds of corruption darken the sunshine state
Claims of police corruption have hit the QLD police again, with up to 20 police hauled in for secret questioning and accusations of drug and organised crime activity. Is another Fitzgerald Inquiry needed? asks Madonna King.
Pay pollies peanuts and you’ll get (even more) monkeys
Why the anger when Aussie politicians’ salaries — measly compared to the private sector — are given a slight raise? Pollies also have to deal with public and media scrutiny, so let’s pay them what they’re worth.
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.
Six degrees of Kevin Bacon, brought to you by News Ltd
Queensland state politics is a messy political battle ground at the moment. And it’s News Ltd who are fuelling the fire, with an unfair double standard.
Political corruption not just in QLD
That fact that political donations, that hot little topic that Anna Bligh brought into the media spotlight this week, is controversial just proves reform is needed.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Kyle and Jackie O backlash continues
Crikey readers weigh-in on Kyle and Jackie O, the red meat health debate and the Tony Fitzgerald’s speech on corruption in Queensland.
Truth overboard in the Pacific Adventurer incident
In case of the Pacific Adventurer the Australian media almost instantly made a scapegoat of Captain Bernardino Santos, writes Edgar Gold.
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.
Dengue fever heads south
While residents of Southern states have been expiring through the heatwave, folks in Far North Queensland have been contending with a dengue fever epidemic, writes Matthew Leonard.
Lawrence Springborg’s kooky rebranding exercise
Queensland LNP leader Lawrence Springborg has started talking up the possibility of former Minister Mal Brough running for a Labor held state seat. This is quite bizarre, writes Mark Bahnisch.
Anti-Muslim protest takes Cronulla to the Gold Coast
If you needed any confirmation that Australia’s xenophobic and racist underbelly is still alive and well, then look no further than Queensland’s Gold Coast, writes Greb Barns.
Decriminalising abortion — what now for the other states?
What are the implications for other states, now that abortion has been decriminalised in Victoria, asks Caroline DeCosta.
Golden Circle finally falls to foreigners after B&B plunder
Iconic Queensland pineapple cannery and fruit juicer Golden Circle is finally being sold to a food multinational — Heinz, writes Michael Pascoe.
How land clearing became a Howard bumper crop
If we want to use native forests as a means to avoid doing something about climate change, we first have to slow the pace at which we’re destroying them – legally and illegally, writes Bernard Keane.
Ugly Ducklings in Queensland: Molony on Women
Councillor John Molony has been propelled to fame, if only briefly, for his comments that “beauty-disadvantaged” women would be welcome in the mining town of Mount Isa, writes Binoy Kampmark.
LNP: new name, same dribbling hicks and hacks
The weekend’s conservative merger in Queensland is a humiliating defeat for senior federal Liberals, writes Bernard Keane.
Mungo: We are witnessing the last days of the Nationals
In the early days of Federation a party to represent the special interests of the outback made sense, but now its days are clearly numbered, writes Mungo MacCallum.
Tips and rumours
Forget a love-in with Queensland Nationals, forget the warm and fuzzy leadership of Dr Nelson. Down in front of the student union office at Melbourne University today, the Young Liberals are back to core Liberal values. A sign is being displayed “End Poverty, Get a Job”. Regarding Friday’s tip concerning Big W’s plasma TV let-down. Maybe you should […]
Between a Brough and a hard place
The Nationals were happy to sign up for a Liberal merger two years ago - is paranoia about Mal Brough the only thing standing in the way this time? Bernard Keane writes.
Merri Rose case fails to excite the CMC
Hypocrisy is a key ingredient in public life, writes Bernard Keane.
Tips and rumours
It now seems that the discovery of a Federal Police operative working out of the office of the CFMEU Furnishing divisions is about to explode in the faces of those who employed him and why! Fireworks expected. Former Queensland Premier Peter Beattie blew his stack at the weekend over the resurfacing of allegations that he […]
A Queensland perspective on Henson
I still feel the shame of Queensland, the laughing stock, the State where police and politicians interfered in artistic matters with heavy hands and jack booted feet, writes Stephen Keim.
