No glitz or glamour, just great Games
Queensland Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie says politicians will be ‘stepping back’ on Olympic planning amid 100 day venue review.
Jamie Walker
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Chastity for priests ‘archaic and unhelpful’
Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane Jeremy Greaves has defended changes to the church’s code of conduct for priests and staff. But the Archbishop of Sydney can’t see how the amendment ‘improves the standard’.
Chastity changes for priests chafe with church conservatives
Anglican priests need not be ‘chaste’ under a change of policy in the progressive Diocese of Perth that has angered traditionalists and stoked tension over moral standards.
Olympics probe run by donor to the LNP
The ‘independent’ review of Brisbane’s stalled Olympic venues program will be headed by a businessman who gave more than $12,000 to the Queensland Liberal National Party.
Email trail exposes dark secret of Palm Island prosecutions
Twenty years on from one of the nation’s most notorious deaths in custody, the emergence of racist emails raises new questions about bias in the criminal justice system.
Brothers stand up and deliver for their guy where it matters
The Republican nominee’s strategy to target voting-shy young men has paid off decisively at the polls.
If Crisafulli can’t arrest the crime rate, the tide will surely turn
David Crisafulli hung his hat on youth crime. This might have been a vote turner – outside Brisbane, at least – but now he has to translate a four-word slogan into robust law. And the clock is ticking.
‘Rabid and divisive’: how Greens lost their heartland
Brisbane voters took a baseball bat to the Greens at the state election. They would be wise to heed the lesson.
Adult crime, adult time easier said than done
The LNP’s marquee campaign promise to tackle youth crime is riddled with holes for premier-elect David Crisafulli.
Labor feared Crisafulli was a threat years ago
At a celebratory 2019 dinner in Switzerland after her pitch to the IOC, Annastacia Palaszczuk took a senior journalist aside. While Brisbane had essentially secured the 2032 Games, all she wanted to discuss was David Crisafulli.
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