OPINION: Industrial relations changes, tweaks to Australia Day, barbecues now the devil’s work … the Labor federal government is hard at work delivering a series of pre-Christmas surprises, writes Mike O’Connor.
Next year, Harry and Meghan will sensationally disappear after the pair managed to get so far up themselves that they vanish, writes Mike O’Connor.
OPINION: What of Bruce Lehrmann’s mental health and the stress to which he has been subjected during the court case involving Brittany Higgins, asks Mike O’Connor.
Summer signals the end of the parliamentary year, when we can offer a prayer of thanks that we will be spared the chest-thumping crowing of our leaders for a few months, writes Mike O’Connor.
Wesley Enoch has attacked Queensland Theatre for its lack of Indigenous programming. But perhaps it wasn’t good enough? Nick Kyrgios says he was vilified because he was coloured. Grow up Nick! Equality is great, but why doesn’t it mean the same to everyone, writes Mike O’Connor.
In pre-COVID Queensland, the state was in trouble. Treasury debt was heading towards $100bn, the public service wage bill was soaring and nobody in government had any idea of how to breathe life into a moribund economy. That’s not going to cut it anymore, writes Mike O’Connor.
My mother didn’t watch the AFL Grand Final as she died the night before at the age of 93 – and organising her funeral has again shone a light on our state secrecy, writes Mike O’Connor.
Kerri-Anne Kennerley is the latest person to incur the wrath of the self-righteous, who are demanding she be dumped from starring in an upcoming musical following the racism row that erupted after comments she made on TV over a year ago, writes Mike O’Connor.
A marine scientist’s admission at a Senate inquiry casts doubt on what we’ve been told about our Great Barrier Reef, writes Mike O’Connor.
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