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.
Feeding The Chooks
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?
Renewables revolt seeds push for new country party
Queensland farmers’ anger with LNP direction is fuelling a proposed rival to David Crisafulli’s party, as Labor forms its union-heavy campaign team.
Lobbyist schools Queensland Labor on negative campaigning
Lobbyist Eamonn Fitzpatrick – dubbed the Agent of Infection – is back in Queensland to teach Labor headquarters a thing or two about negative campaigning.
Dutton’s failed Rennick intervention
The federal Liberal National Party leader tried to intervene after Gerard Rennick was dumped from the Queensland Senate ticket. So why didn’t it work?
Unchallenged Stoker to sail into Crisafulli’s inner sanctum
Labor can’t find anyone to take on ex-senator Amanda Stoker in Oodgeroo despite Steven Miles labelling her an ‘extreme right-wing, crazy, woman-hating lunatic’.
New polling gives Miles something to giggle about
As LNP supporters stock their fridge with champagne for a widely expected state election win on October 26, it seems there is still a little fizz left in Labor’s hopes of holding onto power.
Casino lobbyist to take on Jones for Labor Senate spot
Former Labor Minister Kate Jones has a rival in the race to be Queensland’s newest ALP Senator, and the LNP’s Gerard Rennick has his day in court – suing his own party.
Is this ambitious state Labor MP’s challenge over before it begins?
Jen Howard opted to harness gender quota rules and challenge veteran federal Labor MP Shayne Neumann at preselection for the Queensland seat of Blair. But can she count?
Kate Jones backed for Senate spot by Labor kingmaker
Labor kingmaker Gary Bullock is plotting a return to politics for former Queensland Labor minister Kate Jones, just months after she helped knife Annastacia Palaszczuk.
Brawl erupts within Queensland union movement
The brawling – including a biff between two heavyweights at a Labour Day dinner – has a whiff of the days leading up to the fall of Rome.
Santoro plots LNP return, but is it legal?
One-time Howard government minister, lobbyist and Queensland LNP powerbroker Santo Santoro is plotting his political return. But is it legal?
‘Totally insane’: LNP civil war over climate change
Federal LNP MPs are blowing up over their Queensland counterpart David Crisafulli’s decision to back Labor Premier Steven Miles’s emission reduction targets.
Gina Rinehart’s top execs line LNP pockets
Which mining billionaire’s executives are lining the LNP’s pockets? And are Queensland Labor’s true believers losing faith Steven Miles can win the October election?
Party HQ ignores Peter Dutton’s pleas
Peter Dutton and some of his federal parliamentary colleagues are at loggerheads with Queensland’s Liberal National Party headquarters ahead of the next federal election.
Union’s $500k guerrilla campaign for Labor mate Miles
Steven Miles’ old union drops $500,000 on a new political campaign just a few weeks before strict spending caps for Queensland’s state election kick-in.
Labor’s by-election strategy in the weeds
The party is rolling out its members to help a rival party in a bid to secure preference flows in one of two critical weekend by-elections, as Newspoll shows the Miles government is facing defeat at the October general election.
Palaszczuk’s back as Labor fears by-election loss
Why is Queensland Labor so nervous about losing the first by-election since Steven Miles became Premier, and guess who has arrived on the campaign trail?
Election Plan B: Steven Miles sweetens deal for Katter boys
Queensland’s Premier Steven Miles is bracing for a hung-parliament after the October election and has offered a key crossbencher a lucrative sweetener.
LNP left red-faced over teardrop tattoo candidate
LNP HQ is desperately trying to placate member anger after it endorsed a teardrop-tattooed council candidate who turned out to be an online troll with a lengthy criminal record.
Will Albo save Qld blokes from ALP gender rules?
Is Anthony Albanese going to swoop in and save his Queensland fellas? And why is David Crisafulli jetting to Melbourne with cap in hand?
Palaszczuk assassin rules out big Olympics gig
Former Labor minister Kate Jones has denied she has been leaning on Steven Miles to appoint her to head of the 2032 Olympics infrastructure agency.
Leaked: Premier’s secret re-election plan
New Queensland Premier Steven Miles’ secret re-election plan has leaked, and your favourite politics column, Feeding the Chooks, is back with all the juicy details.
‘All in’: Palaszczuk ready for another run
The under-fire premier prepares a faux election campaign in regional Queensland, as the Teals target another LNP-held federal seat.
Teal wave to drown LNP on Gold Coast
A Teal wave threatens to swamp a party stronghold, as Campbell Newman anoints candidate Amanda Stoker the LNP’s ‘great white hope’.
Plum $378K job for Labor’s fallen golden girl
Terri Butler is in line for a rich new gig while Gerard Rennick could be gearing up for a legal stoush with his own party.
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