“I fear I won’t recognise my beloved country by the time Penny Wong, Chris Bowen, and Jim Chalmers are finished with it,” says Des Houghton, as he paints a picture of a nation we soon might not recognise.
If police find primary school children running wild in the middle of the night, should their parents be prosecuted for failing in their duty to safeguard them, asks Des Houghton. HAVE YOUR SAY
There’s been little to show for the $39.4m taxpayer-funded economic rescue package delivered to North Stradbroke Island, writes Des Houghton, and now there are calls for a fresh inquiry into where the money was spent.
Koala habitats on North Stradbroke Island are being destroyed in the mistaken belief by an Indigenous minority they have the right to do so under native title laws, writes Des Houghton.
A Family Court judge dealt a blow to transgender activists this week by giving a father the custody of a boy whose mother was trying to put him on puberty blockers, writes Des Houghton.
Canine action is required to help stop the nation sleepwalking into a drugs catastrophe, writes Des Houghton, and they should target schools, universities, nightclubs, union rallies and key areas of our cities. HAVE YOUR SAY
More than 24 million feral pigs are wiping out native species, destroying farmland, feasting on endangered turtle eggs
After nine years as a minister, and then Premier, it seems Steven Miles has had enough. His party is comatose. Cyclone Crisafulli has seen to that, writes Des Houghton.
A leading psychiatrist has raised concerns over the establishment of Brisbane’s child and adolescent clinic, saying she has been unable to find evidence of an ethics review before was launched to offer “novel” gender-affirming care.
Collapsed ceilings, rotting wood, rusted pipes and black mould. My visit to this Aussie landmark was terrible, writes Des Houghton.
Annastacia Palaszczuk and Jackie Trad are likely to be called before the Queensland Parliamentary Ethics Committee to explain their role in the taxpayer-funded political cover-up exposed in a Crime and Corruption Commission report, writes Des Houghton
Jarrod Bleijie and Tim Nicholls have some explaining to do over puberty blockers – and so do Health chiefs, writes Des Houghton.
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