Anna Bligh’s government continuing to give Kristina Keneally’s a run for its money in the unpopularity stakes. From an already dismal starting point, Labor’s primary vote has slumped a further three points to a new low of 26%, reports William Bowe.
Hopefully researchers are using the opportunity afforded by the flooding that is now devastating Queensland and parts of NSW and WA to look at what short and long-term health impacts will emerge because of the deluges, writes Melissa Sweet.
The Queensland floods are a significant natural disaster, which has cost the lives of ten people and will cost billions in rebuilding. Yet, why does it get more coverage than the even more horrific recent floods in Pakistan that killed 2,000 and left a million homeless?
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 Wild Rivers Act has been a contentious topic since it was introduced in 2005. Opposition leader Tony Abbott wants it scrapped, but Queensland premier Anna Bligh is standing firm. Crikey intern Cat Wall gets to the facts.
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.
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.
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has reportedly asked the Attorney-General to look into whether optional preferential voting is leading to an increase in the informal vote in Queensland. Maybe, just maybe, boosting ALP electoral prospects has something to do with it, writes Possum Comitatus.
The decision in this case has in fact decriminalised the use by doctors of mifepristone and misoprostol for the purpose of medical abortion in Queensland, writes Caroline de Costa, James Cook University School of Medicine, Cairns
After less than an hour of deliberation late yesterday morning, the jury in the trial of Tegan Leach and Sergei Brennan delivered their verdict: not guilty on both counts, writes Caroline de Costa.
