One thing is clear from yesterday's LNP launch: the policy vacuum problems that hounded Campbell Newman have seemingly disappeared. Benjamin Law reports from "Can Do" country.
A striking feature of the debate over coal seam gas (CSG) is that most of the key issues involved are not unique to CSG, but arise to a greater or lesser extent with all kinds of mining, writes John Quiggin.
Something is very wrong when a quiet, conservative Queensland farming community turns to civil disobedience, forcing a dramatic 10-day showdown with police, writes Heidi Ross, organiser of the Kerry Blockade.
Forget "clear air" for Julia Gillard, finally the Queensland election can have its time in the sun. And the LNP got in fast with an unusually early campaign launch at the Brisbane Convention Centre yesterday.
Catholic Religious Orders have joined a large number of non-government organisations in opposing coal seam gas mining, raising serious concerns about its social and environmental effects, reports Kim Jameson.
In one of the most extraordinary media ploys ever undertaken by a mainstream media organisation, the Courier Mail announced it was ripping its reporters off Anna Bligh and Campbell Newman's campaign buses.
FAQ Research’s Dr Mark Bahnisch interviewed Bob Katter MP, federal Member for Kennedy and leader of Katter’s Australian Party and Queensland Greens Senator Larissa Waters at the February 20 Jondaryan Big Day Out protest against coal seam gas and coal mining on prime agricultural land.
Greens Senator Larissa Waters has written to Queensland Police Minister Neil Roberts to demand an explanation after multinational miner Arrow Energy paid "rent-a-cops" to act as private security at a coal seam gas protest.
The best thing Wayne Swan could do is negotiate a suicide pact with Mark Arbib, his old Nambour High schoolmate.
Queensland Labor enters the 2012 election without one of its key campaigning tools of recent years. The party's success has been built on massively outspending its opponents. New laws bring that to an end just when the tables were turned.
