Crisafulli’s night of the long knives looms for Labor luvvies
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.
Feeding The Chooks
Albo’s bloke faces battle for Blair
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?
‘White hot rage’ spreads in LNP circles over judicial appointment
LNP politicians have been caught badmouthing their colleague’s speech; ‘white hot rage’ spreads over new Attorney-General Deb Frecklington’s first judicial appointment.
Abortion formally off the table for LNP state council meeting
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.
‘Divisive’: Crisafulli’s new director-general oversaw Labor’s ‘Wastecamp’
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.
Trad lashes Labor elder as Crisafulli breaks first election promise
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.
Top Labor bureaucrat prepares for LNP government
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.
Moving and shaking in the Tower of Power
Is David Crisafulli readying to break his first election promise if, as expected, he wins the October 26 election?
Crisafulli: Not a conviction politician on abortion
LNP leader David Crisafulli calls himself a conviction politician. So why can’t he tell Queenslanders what he believes about abortion?
Labor to lose two Brisbane seats to Greens
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.
Shock secret poll: Labor star in trouble
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.
Crisafulli’s No. 1 fan: Queensland Labor HQ
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?
Amanda Stoker left out of a Crisafulli cabinet?
David Crisafulli insists there’ll be no frontbench reshuffle if he wins the October election. Where does that leave Amanda Stoker?
Unions’ $15m war chest dwarfs LNP backers
How are new donation laws handing Labor a multimillion-dollar advantage at the upcoming Queensland election campaign?
Labor quandary after it banks $157k from CFMEU
Queensland ALP faces an expensive conundrum with the big chunk of CFMEU cash presenting a needed boost for Steven Miles’s election campaign.
Robbie Katter: Queensland’s new political kingmaker
Pauline Hanson’s only lower house MP defects to the Katter’s Australian Party in Queensland, while Steven Miles prepares for an awkward public reunion with Annastacia Palaszczuk.
Trad in power talks for factional ally as Crisafulli buries radioactive Dutton spat
Is Queensland Labor’s Left faction plotting Shannon Fentiman’s post-election path to the leadership?
Labor backs off from pre-election nuclear attack on LNP
Why Queensland Labor has backed off on plans to use Peter Dutton’s proposal for nuclear energy as a stalking horse of David Crisafulli; will Campbell Newman return to Queensland politics?
Hanson dumps Queensland’s only One Nation MP
Why has Pauline Hanson decided to sack her only Queensland MP just before the state election? And see how much frontbenchers are fetching at their fundraisers.
Stoker buries nuclear waste before Queensland election
Why is Queensland politician Amanda Stoker pulling the plug on her pro-nuclear stance, just as she’s about to make the transition from federal to state politics? And why is Tasmanian Jacqui Lambie in town?
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