David Crisafulli has recruited the bureaucrat who oversaw the highly politicised Wellcamp Covid quarantine facility to head his department, as Labor’s Right faction accepts a proxy vote from a suspended MP.
Annastacia Palaszczuk, Steven Miles and the rest of the former Labor government cabinet tried and failed to pull off one of the most expensive hoaxes in Queensland’s history.
Ousted Labor premier Steven Miles denies he deliberately misled voters about the multibillion-dollar cost blowout on his government’s centrepiece energy project, despite knowing other options were being investigated.
A mega pumped hydro storage project presented as a centrepiece of Queensland Labor’s re-election platform was ‘commercially unviable’ and would cost more than double its planned $12bn price tag, according to a report.
It’s taken David Crisafulli just six days to break an election pledge; Cameron Dick hosts drinks with comrades to divvy-up the spoils of defeat.
Police were called to the home of Labor state MP Jimmy Sullivan the night after the Queensland state election.
Anthony Albanese is facing internal pressure to unveil populist cost-of-living measures that federal MPs and union leaders say prevented Queensland Labor from suffering a near wipe-out on Saturday’s election.
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.
Potential kingmaker Robbie Katter will have a wishlist of regional infrastructure funding if the major parties need his support to form minority government after Saturday’s Queensland election.
Mike Kaiser orders the Queensland public service to plan for a Crisafulli LNP government, and an ALP MP turns green as he tries to fend off an advance by the minor party.
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