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.
Meet Liberal-National Party Logan City local councillor Hajnal Ban, the 33-year-old "Holocaust survivor". She's angry. About lots of things.
Lost in the excitement of the NSW election has been a breathtaking Galaxy poll showing the Liberal National Party set to sweep to victory under the sort-of-leadership of Campbell Newman, writes William Bowe.
If Labor does decide to fire the starting gun, May 7 might be the date, writes Kim, at the Larvatus Prodeo blog site.
The latest Newspoll reveals Anna Bligh is enjoying a record 49 point reversal on her net approval rating. Labor is currently ahead in Queensland 52-48 on two-party preferred, writes William Bowe.
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.
The remote location of Aboriginal communities combined with their local knowledge becomes an economic advantage rather than a liability when controlling feral animals, writes Crikey naturalist Lionel Elmore, who worked on east coast of Cape York in the early 1990s.
Nobody much liked Queensland Premier Anna Bligh, until her stoic performance handling the state's natural disasters. Yet still, through hell and high water, they liked Liberal-National Party leader John-Paul Langbroek even less.
Cyclone Yasi hit Australia more than a month ago, but one town that wasn't even damaged by the storm is still suffering the consequences of a mass evacuation.
Queensland is not "self-insured". If it was, it wouldn’t need $5.8 billion from Commonwealth taxpayers, writes Senator Nick Xenophon.
