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Michael McKennaQueensland Editor

Michael McKenna is Queensland Editor at The Australian.

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

THE partner of an aboriginal woman who died in custody in WA has accused authorities of shutting him out of the investigation.

A WITNESS from the Pilbara watch-house has described how he heard Julieka Dhu vomiting day and night and crying out in pain.

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A PLATOON commander complained of the lack of intelligence about a base in Afghanistan where three diggers were later killed.

A BRISBANE man was just days away from allegedly carrying out a terrorist attack in Australia when he was arrested last week.

MARK SCHLIEBS and Michael McKenna

QUEENSLAND Labor is divided over Clive Palmer’s bid to set up an unprecedented Senate inquiry into the Newman government.

QUEENSLAND’S electricity network will effectively be privatised under a move to raise almost $30bn through long-term leases.

A PROPOSAL to build a second mosque on the Gold Coast has been rejected by the local city council.

THE Queensland government’s hand-picked co-ordinator general will have sole authority over major mining projects.

QUEENSLAND’S Cape York mayors are demanding control over the proposed extension of welfare quarantining.