The state’s top union powerbroker and four-term premier Peter Beattie both say Annastacia Palaszczuk should have quit sooner to give Steven Miles a better shot at luring back disillusioned voters.
LNP leader David Crisafulli calls himself a conviction politician. So why can’t he tell Queenslanders what he believes about abortion?
Queensland Premier Steven Miles says there’s not a toxic culture of bullying in the electorate offices of his Labor MPs, after allegations were made by staff against two members of his caucus.
Queensland’s legislated renewable energy target will be formally repealed by David Crisafulli if the LNP wins the election, in a move Labor says sends ‘the worst possible signal to investments’.
Queensland Premier Steven Miles has again forgotten the name of a Labor candidate while campaigning on the Sunshine Coast, while David Crisafulli has a trainwreck press conference over abortion.
Court cases suffering long delays because of Queensland’s DNA lab disaster will be fast-tracked under a Liberal National Party government that has pledged $12m to hire more prosecutorial staff.
A federal Liberal National Party MP says it would be ‘extraordinary’ if Queensland members were denied a conscience vote on proposed legislation to restrict access to abortion.
David Crisafulli will keep Queensland’s coal-fired power stations open ‘indefinitely’ if he is elected to ensure energy remains ‘reliable and affordable’.
Queensland’s Truth-telling and Healing Inquiry chair says David Crisafulli’s promise, if elected, to scrap the hearings will be ‘a significant step backwards’ for Indigenous reconciliation.
Queensland’s ‘tired and overworked’ nurses must be paid above the government’s budgeted wage policy or neither side of politics will be able to recruit promised health staff, a union warns.
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