‘Punish Labor’: Katter’s stunning threat to Premier ahead of election
Katter’s Australian Party is threatening to punish Premier Steven Miles by breaking tradition and directing its preferences against government at the October election.
Katter’s Australian Party is threatening to punish Premier Steven Miles by breaking tradition and directing its preferences against government at the October election.
At 2.06pm on May 25, 2021, almost half a million Queenslanders lost power after an explosion at Callide Power Station. Three years on, it has become political storm.
In a case of shameless pork-barrelling, the state will spend on one 800m bridge what it’s pledged in additional funding for the Bruce Highway over three years, writes state political editor Hayden Johnson.
The LNP has sensationally accused the Miles government of trying to bury the truth about what really went wrong at Callide Power Station in 2021.
Steven Miles wants to spend $700m duplicating a bridge his own transport department says is unnecessary for the “foreseeable future”.
The LNP has demanded forensic engineer Sean Brady appear at this month’s Budget Estimates to be grilled on what it has labelled the “Callide cover-up”.
The Labor-aligned Electrical Trades Union will relaunch its campaign against asset sales ahead of the 2024 state election as polling predicts the LNP will win in a landslide.
A pledge on Queensland’s crime rate by Opposition Leader David Crisafulli has sparked a ferocious backlash from the government.
The federal government needs a totemic promise to win back regional Queensland, and there’s nothing that unites them better than the Bruce Highway, writes Hayden Johnson.
After the LNP and Greens teamed up to topple Jackie Trad at the last state election, attention has turned to another Labor figure. THIS IS GEORGE STREET BEAT
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