Greens caught out by corporate gifts
THE Queensland Greens have been caught accepting cash from big business while campaigning for a ban on corporate donors.
THE Queensland Greens have been caught accepting cash from big business while campaigning for a ban on corporate donors.
THE prospect of Robbie Katter playing kingmaker after this weekend’s election cannot be ruled out, writes Steven Wardill.
SARAYA Beric, who caused a storm this week by using Tinder to spruit her policies, has been asked to remove an endorsement from the headmaster of one of the Gold Coast’s most exclusive schools from her website.
THE Labor Party has issued a call for $10 donations to help it over the line in what it says is a close contest that will be decided by undecided voters in the final days before Saturday’s election.
SCRAPPING the police no-pursuit policy will be trialled and a new copper chopper will be bought for North Queensland under a suite of tough-on-crime commitments from the LNP today.
ONE Nation Leader Steve Dickson has rubbished the LNP’s commitment to build the Sunshine Coast rail duplication, claiming it would pay for one third of the project at best.
FEDERAL Labor will today pledge Queenslanders will not have to sacrifice hundreds of millions of dollars in GST to prop-up an agitated WA. And they’ve challenged the Coalition to do the same.
CONGRATULATIONS Annastacia. Now there are two words I didn’t think I would be writing this election campaign, writes Des Houghton.
IN a Queensland first, the LNP has committed to a six-month trial of a curfew for children under 16 roaming the streets after 10pm unless in the company of a parent or adult guardian in a town besieged by a youth crime problem.
A LABOR candidate has been caught red-handed saying the Adani megamine will not go ahead.
CHILD protection campaigner turned state election candidate Hetty Johnston doesn’t have anything against minister Shannon Fentiman. It’s just that she’s “not an expert”.
ONE of the chief contenders for Labor leader has refused to rule out challenging Annastacia Palaszczuk if she loses the November 25 election.
SHE’S not running for Queensland Parliament this time, but the spectre of Pauline Hanson figures heavily in the major parties’ campaigns.
ON PAPER, bill-dodging Labor MP Leanne Donaldson looks on track for a wipeout at the state election. But preference flows could tell a very different story.
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