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Matthew KilloranFederal Political reporter

Matthew is a Federal Political reporter for The Courier-Mail. The Canberra-based senior journalist has covered council, state and federal politics for more than a decade.

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Bundaberg

Member for Hinkler Keith Pitt. Picture: Mike Knott

Pitt urged to wait before making call on future

DUMPED Federal MP Keith Pitt has told colleagues he is “determined” to leave the party – as colleagues urge him to give it 48 hours before making a call.

QLD Election

One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson at a pre-polling booth in Bundaberg, Queensland, Wednesday, November 22, 2017. Senator Hanson is on the campaign trail ahead of the Queensland state election. (AAP Image/Paul Beutel) NO ARCHIVING

Tempers fray in campaign’s dying days

THE final days of the Queensland election campaign have turned nasty, with leaders trading accusations and getting testy over troublesome MPs.

QLD Politics

New Senator Fraser Anning in the Senate Chamber, Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

One Nation crisis is ‘history repeating’

LABOR’S Murray Watt says One Nation Senator Fraser Anning quitting the party the day he was sworn in is a ‘repeat of 1998’. So who is Fanning, and why has he walked out on One Nation?

QLD Election

One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson in the chamber. Picture Gary Ramage

Palaszczuk seizes on One Nation chaos

ANNASTACIA Palaszczuk will use the shock resignation of a One Nation senator to mount a fight back against the resurgence of the rogue right-wing party in Queensland.

QLD Election

Queensland Leader of the Opposition Tim Nicholls (centre) is flanked by (at rear L to R) the Member for Indooroopilly, Scott Emerson, Member for Moggill, Dr Christian Rowan and the Member for Mt Ommaney, Tarnya Smith, as he speaks during a press conference at Mt Coot-tha in Brisbane, Monday, November 13, 2017. Mr Nicholls is on the campaign trail ahead of the November 25 state election. (AAP Image/Dan Peled) NO ARCHIVING

‘Don’t you worry about that … One Nation’

LNP leader Tim Nicholls has repeatedly batted away questions on forming government with supply from One Nation, only saying he was focused on winning a majority.

QLD Election

Australian Trade Minister Steven Ciobo speaks to the media after a meeting for the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) during an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Danang, Vietnam, Friday, November 10, 2017. Mr Ciobo spoke after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau raised a raft of last minute issues and stood up a meeting of the 10 other leaders including Malcolm Turnbull.

MP lists Greens as most dangerous

TRADE Minister and Moncrieff MP Steve Ciobo says the Greens are a more dangerous force in politics than One Nation, supporting the LNP’s position to preference them last.

QLD Election

Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott leaves after Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Monday, October 23, 2017. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Abbott gets Queensland election SOS

FORMER Prime Minister Tony Abbott has received multiple requests from LNP candidates to help them campaign in the Queensland state election.

QLD Election

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson (right) looks on as Thuringowa candidate for One Nation Mark Thornton (left) is questioned about postings on his sex shop's facebook page during a press conference in Townsville, Friday, Novovember 10, 2017. Hanson is conducting a regional tour of the state as part of the Queensland election campaign, speaking to residents about the major issues for them leading into the election. (AAP Image/Dave Hunt) NO ARCHIVING

Hanson’s sex and violence sideshow

PAULINE Hanson has backed a Townsville One Nation candidate amid embarrassing revelations of sex shop ownership and encouraging sexual violence.

QLD Election

ALP federal Opposition Leader, Bill Shorten (left) and Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk (right) are seen during a street walk together in Adelaide Street in Maryborough during the Queensland Election campaign on Thursday, November 9, 2017. Premier Palaszczuk announced during her visit to Maryborough that if re-elected her government would make a $150 million commitment to protect and create new jobs in the manufacturing sector. (AAP Image/Darren England) NO ARCHIVING

Premier still in a hole lot of Adani trouble

IT’S so hard to tell fact from fiction in the controversy over the taxpayer-funded loan for Adani that the Premier can’t even figure it out herself.

Mackay

LNP leader Tim Nicholls in Bundaberg. Picture: Mike Knott BUN071117LNP8

No loan for Adani: New poll shows voters against funding

MOST Queenslanders believe the state should block any taxpayer-funded loan to Indian mining giant Adani, a new poll suggests.

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