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COST OF LIVING ‘FREE-FOR-ALL’? As the hot takes keep on coming regarding the LNP’s victory in the Queensland state election, the Albanese government is attempting to change the conversation and reject the calls for knee-jerk responses. The Australian Financial Review has led overnight on Treasurer Jim Chalmers saying there would be no cost of living […]
Queensland’s coastal Bruce Highway was revived as an issue ahead of the State Election with the Opposition blaming the road toll fully on the highway itself — and therefore the State Government. Dr Lee Duffield took a long drive North for this report. THE ACCUSATION goes that the highway is neglected and unable to handle […]
An increasingly malevolent LNP, clutching desperately for power in Queensland this weekend, take their stereotypical “law and order” campaign a jackbooted step further to now target vulnerable children. Dr Lee Duffield reports. THE QUEENSLAND ELECTION this weekend turns on the Liberal-National proposal to gaol First Nations children. That proposal conjures up core ideas about civilisation: whether to deal with a crisis […]
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 […]
It’s long been assumed the Queensland election of October 26 — to elect the state’s 58th (and second fixed, four-year) Parliament — would be a tough ask for a tired-looking Labor government seeking a rare fourth term. Having won the 2020 COVID-19 election with primary and two-party-preferred swings to it — and with a net […]
There is something inherently wrong with our national priorities if we allow Crisafulli’s LNP to prop up mining and development interests, and decide women’s reproductive choices while denying hungry children, writes managing editor Michelle Pini. IT TAKES a special type of hard heart (or is that heartless monster?) to not only disapprove of an initiative that […]