Campbell Newman is Eliot Ness. Leaked briefing confirms existence of LNP robots. A tale of three crowns. Racism alive and well in the deep North. Flight Centre Newman Government guarantee. . Campbell Newman is Eliot Ness “Populist governments need an enemy,” wrote University of Queensland Professor of Law Graeme Orr in his 2013 piece describing […]
As long as the trains run on time – The Qld Weekly #qldpol: @Qldaah
August 24, 2014
Galaxy poll – TPP 52pc to LNP. Newman Government’s top traffic offender. The political biz of high-vis. Newman’s D-G Jon Grayson spends big. Drought relief – ‘Lying bastards’. CM misleading on Qld debt figure. Tweet of the week – Crane index overload. . Galaxy poll – TPP 52pc to LNP The latest Queensland state Galaxy […]
Head in the clouds – The Qld Weekly #qldpol: @Qldaah
August 17, 2014
ReachTEL – 52 percent to LNP. Dr Alex Douglas quits Palmer United Party. Head in the clouds: Newman evokes Joh’s crane index of populist Premiers past. The Broncos Mail backs Newman. Dame Quentin Bryce to lead domestic violence taskforce. Stop the rollout: How the Newman Government is killing solar. Tweet of the week – Election […]
Crimes that matter – The Qld Weekly #qldpol: @Qldaah
August 10, 2014
Crimes that matter. Unemployment at eleven year high. The great Queensland fluoride debate rages. Third suicide after Newman closure of Barrett Centre. New doctor in the house. New livery for Queensland police. Tweet of the week – The media lounge in parliament house gets ‘Newmaned’. . Crimes that matter. The crime statistics came a little […]
Shock rise in Qld unemployment rates for July, the #qldpol labour force monthly update: @Qldaah
August 7, 2014
Tracking Queensland’s long term unemployment rate. Queensland’s unemployment has risen from 5.5 percent when the Newman Government came to power to a high this month of 6.5pc. In 2012, Queensland recorded “the steepest rise in unemployment in the state since Australian Bureau of Statistics records began in 1978”. Queensland’s highest youth unemployment region is Cairns […]
Misleading Queensland, The Courier Mail’s shocking week – The Qld Weekly #qldpol: @Qldaah
August 3, 2014
Carmody crisis still alive. Dr Chris Davis admonished by The Courier Mail. Tony Fitzgerald QC under attack by cohort of Newman Government and News Corp. New Governor in town. Decentralising Queensland. Crime statistics get ‘Newmaned’. Tweet of the week: Can CanDo get out of the way? . Carmody crisis still alive Justice John Muir again […]
Factcheck: Queensland crime statistics get ‘Newmaned’ – #qldpol: @Qldaah
August 2, 2014
On July 14, 2014, Queensland Police Commissioner Ian Stewart took the unusual step of briefing the Newman Government cabinet on the fall of crime in Queensland, more than six weeks ahead of the annual announcement in September. It was also in the lead up to the Stafford by-election and just prior to Queensland budget estimates […]
A crash course in CSG’s courtship of farmers: @Thom_Mitchell reports from #Pilliga #leardblockade
August 1, 2014
“IF the people of Narrabri think they’re going on a date with the handsome new stranger in town, they’re going to go home and find they’ve been raped,” president of People for the Plains, Hugh Barrett, said as we strained to hear. Hugh was giving an interview to ABC radio Tamworth. He was referring to […]
Did The @CourierMail misrepresent Dr Chris Davis? #qldpol: @Qldaah
July 30, 2014
There’s always an exception to the rule. In Queensland, it’s former Liberal National Party (LNP) member Dr Chris Davis. Elected to the seat of Stafford in 2012, Davis took on the role of assistant health minister in the Newman Government. He was a critic, albeit quiet, of the former Beattie and Bligh Labor governments over […]
Creeping political death, Newman’s faux apology – The Qld Weekly #qldpol: @Qldaah
July 27, 2014
ReachTEL poll for Ashgove – TPP 53 percent to Labor. Dr Chris Davis defect to Labor. Sorry week. Tony Fitzgerald QC on Newman’s ‘blitzkrieg’. Could the Newman Government really fall to a Palaslide? Newman cuts respite services to disabled children. Bligh Government’s Gold Coast trams go live. Tweet of the week – Good advice on […]
