In bed with reds: Sir Joh’s secret plan
NEW details of a proposed partnership between Queensland and one of the Eastern Bloc’s most notorious Communist tyrants have emerged with the release of 1987 State Cabinet documents.
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Minister for Everything looked after his mates
THE figure of Russ Hinze – the “Minister For Everything’’ – loomed large in state politics in 1987, riding roughshod over local councils to get developments underway.
We won’t see her like again
LADY Flo could milk a cow, feed the chooks, muster the numbers to do over an opponent at the local branch of the CWA and cross the floor of the Federal Senate, sometimes all in one day, writes Michael Madigan.
Meet the LNP’s first ever female leader
FROM a majority of women in Cabinet in the last parliamentary term to a majority of women in leadership roles in the next – Deb Frecklington’s elevation to Opposition leader is another milestone in a state carving a path to gender equality. Just don’t call her a feminist.
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.
Does Miller’s smooch signal kiss of death?
MAVERICK Labor MP Jo-Ann Miller has sensationally moved to undermine her own government’s re-election campaign in the critical final days, embracing One Nation matriarch Pauline Hanson on the hustings in Ipswich.
Archer hits the mark
FACT is as riveting as fiction in the outlandish life of British author and former MP Jeffrey Archer
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.
Hotel with wild animals at the bar
IT’S in a cane region, but also cattle, croc and crab country. And the front bar of this Queensland pub is festooned by some record-setting catches.
No bull, this pub has it all
THIS “city” pub is so country that a legendary country music star once bought into it as a co-owner, leaving you to think this “city/country divide’’ thing might be just another urban myth.
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