What a sad and sorry state we have become when the cries for help from alleged rape victims are ignored while the pleas of gambling bosses for taxpayer dollars are welcomed, writes Mike O’Connor.
The government’s latest announcement shows exactly what’s wrong with its multiculturalism. Hindus, Jews and Buddhists don’t seem to need such grants to save our “social cohesion”.
Beyond critical incidents where police are killed, there is a problem in how our police are treated and supported, writes Terry Goldsworthy.
The good economic news the Prime Minister and Treasurer hoped would arrive like a Christmas present seems to have been lost in the mail, writes the editor.
Mark Bailey’s ministerial career should have ended six years ago after the infamous mangocube email scandal, writes the editor.
Working class families got a rude shock at tax time this year but there’s another major change looming in 2024, writes Samantha Maiden.
The Queensland government will ban mobile phones in state schools next year. Here’s why my independent schools won’t follow suit, writes Matt Hawkins.
He’s been Premier for just days but Steven Miles’ tenure has already stirred the passions of Queenslanders. JOIN THE CONVERSATION
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Steven Miles has 319 days to convince us he’s his own man, writes Hayden Johnson.
While the Labor faithful, comrades-in-arms and other hangers-on will laud departing Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk (C-M, Dec 11), for the rest of us there will be little fanfare for a career politician who divided many in the last years of her leadership.
As factions jostle for supremacy in the hunt for Queensland’s next leader, Joe Hildebrand reminisces about the party’s wars of past and delves into the effectiveness of Kevin Rudd’s “caucus rule”.
There is a long tradition in comfortable Western societies of looking the other way when it comes to the treatment of women in some Muslim-dominated countries, writes Mike O’Connor.
As Acting Premier we’re used to a relaxed and comfortable Steven Miles – what we got on his first day on the job was anything but.
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