After coming home to news of $14m 13-tonne white elephants and $700m redundant ferries, to wars being blamed for everything, and a $12bn monument to poor planning, only a new Queensland Premier is keeping me from leaving again, writes Mike O’Connor.
We hear a lot about being able to catch the bus for 50c, but radio silence on the treaty that will prove costly, writes Mike O’Connor.
What a sad and sorry state we have become when the cries for help from alleged rape victims are ignored while the pleas of gambling bosses for taxpayer dollars are welcomed, writes Mike O’Connor.
The last few days of winter proved beyond all doubt that this country descends further into madness by the day, writes Mike O’Connor.
We’re smart enough to make up our own minds on how to celebrate our national day without any sermonising from the boardroom, writes Mike O’Connor.
OPINION: Asking Queenslanders to get behind the 2032 Games when the health system is failing and families are living in their cars is a bit rich, writes Mike O’Connor.
A rogues’ gallery including Ray Martin, Alan Joyce, Chris Bowen and Jacinda Ardern dominated a divisive year that we’re glad to see the back of, writes Mike O’Connor.
Vanessa Hudson and Steven Miles believe they live by different rules and that unlike you and I, are unaccountable for past deeds, writes Mike O’Connor.
While some of the stupidest people you’ve ever met have doctorates, having one will help you climb the ladder to political success, writes Mike O’Connor.
There is a long tradition in comfortable Western societies of looking the other way when it comes to the treatment of women in some Muslim-dominated countries, writes Mike O’Connor.
It is becoming increasingly obvious that Queensland is incapable of hosting the 2032 Olympics, writes Mike O’Connor.
The Albanese government charges blindly into the valley of net-zero instability while the world ponders the folly of our blinkered zealotry, writes Mike O’Connor.
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