Joh Bjelke-Petersen
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Quintessential Queenslander Clive Palmer buys childhood home in Williamstown
Quite what the mining magnate plans to do with his new $4.5 million bungalow is anyone’s guess.
- by Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Cult Brisbane author says Queensland did Trumpism first
A classic book about Brisbane music and politics has turned 20, and its author says he didn’t realise how prescient it would be.
- by Nick Dent
Holy Gruen Transfer! Gina Rinehart stars in bush apparel ad with Bjelke-Petersen’s son
Australia’s richest person has been particular about her image management recently.
- by Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Kate Miller-Heidke says her singing is like ‘a yodelling ambulance or Enya on meth’
On stage, Kate Miller-Heidke’s self-deprecating sense of humour is clear – the audience laughs at her jokes about the high register of her voice.
- by Helen Pitt
Opinion
Five Minutes with Fitz
A life dedicated to the law and justice, without fear or favour
Nicholas Cowdery, QC, the longest-serving director of public prosecutions in Australian history, spent the best part of two decades up close to some of the nation’s most complex legal cases.
- by Peter FitzSimons
Why experts think a death tax should be reintroduced
A death duty is politically unpopular, but Australia is one of only a handful of developed countries without one. As inequality rises, the case for a death tax is growing.
- by Shane Wright and Jennifer Duke
Opinion
Coal seam gas
Constitutional meddling means Andrews could govern from the grave
Setting the fracking ban in stone will set a dangerous precedent where political parties think it’s acceptable to ignore the power of future parliaments.
- by Annika Smethurst
From the Archives, 1987: I won't resign, says tough-talking Joh
Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen had been a masterful and domineering Premier, but as his popularity waned he turned on his potential rivals.
- by Greg Roberts
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