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.
Just weeks after a leaked photo saw Steven Miles accused of being a liar in parliament, a recent ’voyeur’ scandal is set to reignite, writes Des Houghton.
If the state government listened to this advice they may have avoided an Olympics diaster.
The Labor Party will suffer something far worse than defeat in the October election, writes Des Houghton. SEE LABOR’S 12 MOST AT RISK
The Gold Coast brothers would be better off bypassing Australia and taking their billion-dollar empire to America, such is their bureaucratic battle, writes Des Houghton.
It has the backing of influential tourism tycoons and clubbies, but Australia’s first surf lifesaving resort planned for North Stradbroke Island faces another challenge, writes Des Houghton.
A controversial theory proposed by a leading social researcher is calling for popstar Taylor Swift to get married and start a family, in a move likely to enrage feminists, writes Des Houghton. Here’s why.
Whistleblowers who attempt to reveal official corruption in Queensland have effectively been silenced despite the two powerful watchdog agencies, writes Des Houghton.
Claims of stabbings, syphilis, Olympic betrayal and union wrongdoing featured this week in Parliament as Steven Miles struggled to fix Labor’s broken record, writes Des Houghton.
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