Queensland election roundup 1
Before the formal election campaign starts when Parliament is dissolved on February 19, I’m going to keep people updated with a series of Queensland election roundups. The big question, of course, is how politicised things get before the campaign kicks [...]
Queensland election called for March 24
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has just announced that the state election, originally intended to be held on March 3, will now be held on March 24. Local Council elections, scheduled for March 31, will be delayed until April or May. [...]
Remembering the floods
As I write we have brutal heat in Brisbane, with a dry west wind. On 11 January last year Robert Merkel put up a post, Queensland floods get worse. Later that day Mark put up a post, Brisbane flood maps and up [...]
QLD same-sex Civil Unions – rally for the bill
Scenes from this evening’s rally before QLD Parliament House in support of Deputy Premier Andrew Fraser’s private members bill to create same-sex civil unions in Queensland. Hi res: Rally for QLD Civil Unions bill 2011 (M4V Video 25Mb 2min) Low [...]
Christmas music
On Saturday 26 November the Bach Society of Queensland will be presenting Handel’s Messiah in St John’s Cathedral in Brisbane. Tickets here. If you live elsewhere you can use this thread as a roundtable to let others in your area [...]
Living in Paul Keating’s Australia, and loving it!
Tonight I went to Paul Keating’s book tour at the Brisbane Powerhouse. There’s a real sense, as I argued recently at The Drum, that we still live in the John Howard era. But only because the evil angels of this country are continually conjured up by [...]
Campbell Newman’s glass jaw and wayward Cairns candidate
I have a story in Crikey today on Campbell Newman’s travails. The Lord Mayor turned Opposition Leader outside Parliament has been on the back foot for over a month, displaying tetchiness over demands that he more fully disclose his financial [...]
Queensland Floods Commission report Roundtable
The Queensland Floods Commission released its interim report today. Prominent findings are reported at the ABC. The full text of the report can be found here. We hope to revisit the report with some analysis in the near future, but [...]
John Quiggin on Campbell Newman’s distressed infrastructure
John Quiggin, who attributes much of the scale of the New South Wales Labor election disaster to electricity privatisation, has an excellent suggestion in today’s Financial Review about how the Queensland ALP could turn its own privatisation woes around. Quiggin [...]
Napoleon Newman’s LNP takeover
The latest in the Campbell Newman putsch: he’s bringing his own election strategists with him, and all LNP policy has now been declared null and void. The Election Team Leader needs a Clean Slate. Presumably to be filled in with [...]
The Galaxy poll and the Campbell Newman putsch
As has been the subject of some discussion on Facebook, Brisbane’s Sunday Mail today has the appearance of the Can-Do Campbell Fan Club Newsletter. It’s full of puff about a Galaxy poll showing Campbell Newman ahead of Anna Bligh on [...]
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