Joh Bjelke-Petersen
‘Where’s our transmitter?’ How the Whitlam dismissal nearly silenced radio 4ZZZ
The birth of Queensland’s first community radio station 50 years ago was a story of insurmountable odds meeting implacable effort – and a few cunning tricks.
- Nick Dent
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‘She heard an extraordinary plot against the government’: The call that would haunt Winsome Nash
For 50 years, a family kept a secret about events leading up to a cataclysmic moment in Australian politics. Now they are going public.
- Peter Rees
The premier, the poet and the fight to save a frog
It’s a story almost too preposterous to believe, starring a group of uni students, an infamous state premier, a legendary Australian poet and an extinct frog that gave birth by vomiting its young.
- Andrew Stafford
Brisbane crane index shows shift to residential ... for now
Brisbane’s latest crane count shows a 12 per cent increase in the number of cranes punctuating the city’s skyline.
- Cameron Atfield
Joh’s cops arrested their drummer ‘because he was black’. Forty years on, these punk icons are back
The Dead Kennedys’ 1983 visit to Brisbane is the stuff of legend. Now, fans are abuzz once more as the punk pioneers return.
- Nick Dent
Texas governor orders arrest of Democrats who fled Trump-backed gerrymander stoush
In one of the many US states where partisan gerrymandering is the norm, Democratic lawmakers left Texas to avoid debate on a proposed electoral map. So Republicans issued warrants.
- Michael Koziol
- Opinion
- Liberal Party
The battle for the soul of conservative Australia may have just begun
If the existing split in the Coalition moves beyond a difference about policy, the self-destructive consequences will be devastating.
- George Brandis
‘My legal rights’: Ricky Nixon brings the beef to Melbourne Magistrates’ Court
Plus: ABC v News Corp round 753; Council Watch spares Lord Mayor Nick Reece and deputy Roshena Campbell; Albanese scrupulously ensures everyone gets a piece of the pie.
- Stephen Brook, Melissa Cunningham, Kishor Napier-Raman and Lachlan Abbott
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