Despite the Queensland LNP winning government based on a campaign against the ‘youth crime crisis’, statistics from QLD Police reveal a different story. Dr John Jiggens writes. THE RESULTS of the 2024 Queensland Election left both Labor and the LNP with reasons to feel pleased. Labor has governed Queensland for 22 of the past 25 […]
With the Queensland election next Saturday, the newsrooms have ensured voters are profoundly misinformed, as Alan Austin reports. IN JUST TEN MONTHS, Queensland’s fresh new premier has impressed objective observers with his economic achievements. Steven Miles has found jobs for an extra 78,100 Queenslanders (seasonally adjusted), more than half of them full-time. That was a […]
This poem is an *IA Writing Competition (creative work category) entry. Queensland’s choice There’s a choice to be made In the state where I live, Between those who have taken And those who will give. At stake is survival Of the hospitals and schools, That suffered abuse Under LNP rules. And Pete’s nuclear option will […]