Politics
Queensland
Perspective
Queensland votes
Major parties lay out their election-year plans. How will they get your vote?
The next state election is now a year away, with Labor and the LNP honing their campaigns. We’re keen to know what you want them to focus on.
- by Matt Dennien
Latest
Queen’s Wharf crime links were known. So why was the govt shocked?
The Queensland government already had extensive knowledge of a Queen’s Wharf Brisbane company’s links with Asian organised crime when it claimed media reports were “very concerning”.
- by Zach Hope
Perspective
LNP
After the Voice, the LNP’s lean, mean division machine finds a new gear
David Crisafulli has sought to differentiate his party’s state team from the brutal politics of their federal counterparts. Then, he embraced it.
- by Matt Dennien
Impaired and detained teen spent days in 24-hour confinement
A judge has taken a swipe at Queensland government agencies for their management of an intellectually disabled Indigenous boy.
- by Zach Hope
‘Weak and timid’: Treaty body slams Crisafulli backflip
Community leaders have urged the LNP to not use the state’s Path to Treaty program as a ‘political plaything in a fruitless culture war’.
- by Zach Hope
Taxpayers funded two Europe trips for the Governor. What went on?
The Governor’s travel budget was about $220,000 more than the previous year, but there is scant detail of what the former chief health officer did while she was away.
- by Zach Hope
Updated
Voice to parliament
‘Dangerous and short-sighted’: Cloud over treaties after LNP drops support
Queensland’s human rights boss has criticised ‘sweeping assumptions’ being made about what the failed federal Voice means for the state’s separate path ahead.
- by Matt Dennien
Perspective
City life
Yes, Brissie backyards come with snakes. Removing them creates another risk
There’s a perception that snakes don’t belong in urban environments and that, if spotted, need to be relocated. Should we rethink that?
- by Courtney Kruk
Renters in spotlight under potential real estate industry code of conduct
While detail on the work is limited, Housing Minister Meaghan Scanlon says the government is looking at the issue to align Queensland with other states.
- by Matt Dennien
Govt invites developers to build new public school as plans pushed out five years
A new Brisbane state school could be built by developers and leased to the government under plans suggested to the private sector to cope with under-pressure schools.
- by Felicity Caldwell
Brisbane City Council to slash spending by 10 per cent as cost hikes bite
Future green bridges are in doubt and advertising and consultants fees have been cut as BCC announces an immediate 10 per cent spending cut.
- by Tony Moore