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.
A triumphant Queensland Labor – fresh from the party’s barnstorming May 3 victory – needs to find a new state secretary to replace outgoing Kate Flanders. So what’s the problem? The preferred candidate is a bloke.
Premier David Crisafulli is on the hunt for the state’s next governor to replace pandemic-era chief health officer Jeannette Young, and Chooks hears a retired Lieutenant General is in his sights.
An LNP senator from Peter Dutton’s home state of Queensland has called for a national inquiry to the Liberal Party’s bloodbath election loss, declaring women and under-40s have stopped listening.
While Emma Comer has claimed victory in the seat, Chooks hears Luke Howarth refuses to accept his fate.
David Crisafulli called in for final blitz on the Greens-held seat of Brisbane, as former Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk positions herself as a political commentator.
Labor insiders say Queensland is the key to majority government for Anthony Albanese, as an ex-Nationals MP in Rome is forced to take a pit stop as he waits for the new Pope.
Is the youth crime crisis that David Crisafulli rode into power paused for the federal election?
David Littleproud’s western Queensland electorate is underwater but he was chasing the flow of campaign donors’ money at a $5000-a-head fundraiser in inner-Brisbane.
Anthony Albanese’s union army goes on the march against Peter Dutton, and Chooks discovers who came up with the idea to host Olympic rowing in croc-infested Rockhampton.
The new Speaker of Queensland parliament has quietly expanded the acknowledgement of country that recognises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders at the beginning of every sitting day – but not everyone is happy with the changes.
Churches are applauding Queensland’s new Attorney-General Deb Frecklington for stalling implementation of Labor’s tougher sex and gender discrimination regime. But are women in the workplace at risk?
If the Queensland Premier obeys the main advice from his hand-picked Games panel, he’ll be breaking an election promise.
Queensland’s mining and building sectors tipped an enormous $3.8m into third-party campaigns to defeat Steven Miles’ Labor at the recent state election, outspending the union movement by hundreds of thousands of dollars.
After nearly a decade of attacking the Palaszczuk-Miles government for shoe-horning Labor mates into taxpayer-funded jobs, the LNP has picked up right where the ALP left off, with a slew of plum appointments.
Wayward Queensland Labor MP Jimmy Sullivan will make a surprise reappearance at the party’s caucus love-in next week, but will factional treachery kill the vibe?
David Crisafulli is preparing to axe Labor luvvies from government boards, while Peter Dutton’s own MPs were kept in the dark on the federal Opposition Leader’s nuclear nuts and bolts.
Will Anthony Albanese’s decision to save a Queensland MP from gender quotas come back to bite him, as the LNP prepare to preselect a woman to contest the federal seat? And who is state Labor’s new comrade in chief?
LNP politicians have been caught badmouthing their colleague’s speech; ‘white hot rage’ spreads over new Attorney-General Deb Frecklington’s first judicial appointment.
Internal unease about the LNP’s handling of the thorny issue of abortion during the Queensland election campaign will be kept off the formal agenda at this weekend’s state council meeting. But make no mistake, it’ll be talked about.
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.
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.
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.
Is David Crisafulli readying to break his first election promise if, as expected, he wins the October 26 election?
LNP leader David Crisafulli calls himself a conviction politician. So why can’t he tell Queenslanders what he believes about abortion?
Queensland Labor is at risk of losing two of its Brisbane seats to the Greens, leaked union-funding polling shows, and while Annastacia Palaszczuk’s TV debut has surprised some, others closer to the former premier say she fancies herself a talk-show host.
Shannon Fentiman, the woman most likely to be Labor opposition leader if Steven Miles is trounced on October 26, is in strife in her own safe Labor seat.
Labor HQ is singing the praises of LNP leader David Crisafulli, and the CFMEU has been caught up in allegations of secretly recording staff. Where else but Queensland?
David Crisafulli insists there’ll be no frontbench reshuffle if he wins the October election. Where does that leave Amanda Stoker?
How are new donation laws handing Labor a multimillion-dollar advantage at the upcoming Queensland election campaign?
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