FORGET the battle of South Brisbane, the Greens candidate for Maiwar reckons he’ll be the first elected as a Queensland MP, toppling one of the LNP’s most prominent frontbenchers. ALL YOUR ELECTION DAY NEWS
FORGETFUL Queensland voters face a fine of more than double that of their NSW counterparts and more than six times that of residents in WA and the ACT if they fail to make it to the polling booth for this Saturday’s election.
BRISBANE’S only Greens councillor predicts his party will pick up votes in Brisbane, with anti-development and Adani sentiment running high in the inner-city electorates.
THESE are the 25 seats that will decide who gets to govern Queensland for the next three years — and two former premiers have weighed in.
PREMIER Annastacia Palaszczuk is yet to pick up the phone and speak to Adani bosses, nine days after her bombshell decision to veto a $1 billion loan.
THEY might be called One Nation but Pauline Hanson’s political party has divided Queensland, and the major political parties only have themselves to blame.
THE most exhaustive analysis yet of Queensland’s surging One Nation movement – poised to wreak havoc at the state election – reveals many supporters don’t even care about its policies.
PREMIER Annastacia Palaszczuk has slammed One Nation after its leader Steve Dickson made “absolutely atrocious” claims about lessons being taught to primary school students.
THE LNP is claiming underdog status, but Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says the election will be hard-fought for Labor too, following the release of Courier-Mail Galaxy polling in crucial seats.
THE LNP has been accused of copying another Labor plan, this time the solution to Queensland’s “rail fail”.
LABOR could be knocked out in its heartland electorate of Logan in a devastating outcome for Annastacia Palaszczuk’s re-election prospects. It’s among seven seats where upsets are on the cards.
SHADOW attorney-general Ian Walker says the sentence of just four years’ jail for the manslaughter four-year-old Tyrell Cobb does not meet community expectations.
ANNASTACIA Palaszczuk’s pathway to secure the 47 seats needed to form majority government just became further obstructed, writes Steven Wardill.
MAJOR parties be warned. The frustration felt in regional Queensland echoes the anger that propelled Donald Trump to the White House, writes Michael Madigan.
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