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Grassroots members press for LNP probe
The LNP is under pressure to order an independent investigation into a senior official organising more than $2m worth of election materials from a company with financial links to him and his mother.
Jacinta Allan blasts Qld treasurer as GST feud deepens
Victoria’s Premier labelled Queensland’s David Janetzki’s shot at her state over its share of GST revenue as ‘bullshit’.
Nation’s largest green hydrogen project axed
Labor’s centrepiece $12.5bn ‘green hydrogen’ hub in Gladstone has been quietly terminated, following the collapse of $100bn in green energy projects.
Steven Miles’s footmen learn the price of not showing up to work
We reveal how much it cost for eight Labor MPs to skip work as parliament’s powerful ethics committee finds David Crisafulli failed to declare a $200,000 ‘insolvent trading’ settlement; and guess which convicted criminal is back in the parliament?
Super raid copycats face $200bn debt
Queensland Treasurer David Janetzki has revealed total debt will soar $20bn under the Crisafulli administration compared to the former Labor government’s projections.
‘Utterly out of control’: Matt, mum and the missing how-to-vote cards
A top official in Queensland’s LNP ordered more than $1.2m in campaign materials from a printing company with financial links to himself and his mother.
Hydro boss out as costs of $18bn plan cut
The Crisafulli government axed Annastacia Palaszczuk’s plans to build the world’s biggest pumped hydro scheme, and is now running the ruler over the rest of Labor’s renewables plan.
Cape York heritage leader on fraud charges
Dion Creek, the rising Indigenous leader overseeing talks last year over a World Heritage listing of Cape York, now faces serious fraud charges over the land council he ran.
State-federal deal over Olympics … but not everyone is happy
The Queensland and federal governments are in negotiations on the final agreement to fund and deliver David Crisafulli’s Olympic stadium plan. Plus Keith Pitt’s Vatican credentials, Laura Gerber’s diary, and a tourism plan.
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