State-owned servos, free lunches, another government-owned energy company to magically create cheap power… will someone tell Premier Steven Miles he’s dreaming, writes Des Houghton.
I was ashamed to be an Australian when I heard Penny Wong advocating for Palestine in the United Nations, writes Des Houghton. Her call for Australia to recognise Palestine as a state was an affront to all of us.
The Palaszczuk Government may have seen the project through, but it was a forgotten LNP character, rejected by his own party, who was the driving force behind Brisbane’s modern new cityscape, writes Des Houghton.
He’s standing in a South East Queensland seat of more than 40,000 voters, but this enigmatic LNP candidate won’t say where he works, nor even what he does for a living, writes Des Houghton.
Gina Rinehart is beefing up Queensland’s cattle reputation, writes Des Houghton.
The Premier’s government-owned petrol stations pledge is the kookiest idea I have ever heard from a political leader in the history of this kooky state,” writes Des Houghton.
The state’s health crisis is so bad that it will take more than a decade to fix, warns an ex-chief of the Metro North emergency departments, writes Des Houghton.
Queensland’s fight against corruption has a long history – and former commissioner Jim O’Sullivan has been remembered as one of its finest warriors, writes Des Houghton.
While Premier Steven Miles and Treasurer Cameron Dick shower Queenslanders with unsustainable sweeteners in a crass attempt to buy votes, the state’s debt is soaring, writes Des Houghton.
Steven Miles was front and centre of several of Annastacia Palaszczuk’s failed initiatives. To say otherwise is deceptive, writes Des Houghton.
The hugely popular new Colmslie markets have fallen victim to a neighbourhood dispute that could cost Council who have moved to restrict it to just one day per month, columnist Des Houghton writes.
The CFMEU being described in Federal Parliament as a criminal organisation rubbed Labor’s nose in it again, and the timing couldn’t have been worse for Miles, writes Des Houghton.
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