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Michael McKennaQueensland Editor

Michael McKenna is Queensland Editor at The Australian.

POLICE are investigating links of a transgender victim to prostitution after she was murdered and dismembered by her fiance.

QUEENSLAND’S Premier Campbell Newman has been in the wars, but he’s listening.

FORMER Newman government minister Bruce Flegg has been disendorsed as a Liberal National Party candidate at next year’s election.

CAMPBELL Newman plans to use the Senate inquiry into his government to revive attacks on previous Labor governments and Clive Palmer.

THE Greens will use the Clive Palmer-led inquiry into the Queensland government to probe his coal holdings and nickel refinery.

STEFANIE BALOGH and Michael McKenna

THE LNP has rallied in Queensland, as Campbell Newman continues to wrestle with his unpopularity, Newspoll figures show.

A DOSE of reality has been injected into the lively body politic of Queensland with a rebound in support for the Newman LNP.

CAROL Roe sits by the grave hour after hour asking: ‘Why did my baby have to die?’

MACAU-based “junkets’’ of Asian gamblers will play a major role in luring Chinese to the proposed $8 billion casino near Cairns.

JULIA Gillard says Kevin Rudd was deeply flawed due to a difficult childhood and concluded he could never get “enough applause, approval, love’’.

Michael McKenna and David Crowe