by PAUL COLLITS – WITH the departure from high office of the Unspellable Premier north of the Tweed, we have lost our last COVID Gauleiter. They are now all gone. This will be widely noted by those of us for whom the…
by GRAHAM YOUNG – I WAS one of few political analysts who predicted Annastacia Palaszczuk would beat Campbell Newman in 2015. That fact alone may explain a lot about her long career. What was Palaszczuk’s defining achievement? Well, she managed to increase…
by PAUL COLLITS – A QUEENSLAND man has been found to have (successfully) taken his wife’s Voluntary Assisted Dying pills after she had died without the chance to use them. At first, before I read the details, I had assumed this case…
by PAUL COLLITS – POLITICAL leaders are attempting to escape blame for their excessively aggressive response to a largely “confected” COVID crisis. While the Wuhan virus had proven harmful to a small and identifiable demographic, politicians are accused acting beyond their powers…
AFTER the sad demise of the previous NSW premier, I thought, well, one eastern State’s unspellable spinster-premier is gone, one to go. The then State of Origin contest over who could be the more ghastly premier came to an end after ICAC’s…
QUEENSLAND premier Annastacia Palaszczuk played the first notes from the State sovereignty provisions of the Constitution as a rousing electoral anthem, after renaming them “Up Yours Australia, Queensland is Closing Its Borders”.
SHE’S promising to spend up big, green-light euthanasia and run cover for sexual predators working in school classrooms.This is the debased policy platform Queensland’s incumbent Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk believes will see her re-elected next Saturday week. And according to opinion polls, she might be right.
AFTER years of double speak and dragging its heels on mining approvals, Labor has now publicly embraced coal as Queensland’s 2020 election looms. Holding a slim two seat majority, ALP Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is targeting regional electorates to assist her retain government – albeit with a bet each way.
AFTER a nail-biting wait of 20 days, Sarah Caisip finally received approval from the Queensland government to enter Queensland so she could farewell her dying dad. Sarah’s dad had already passed away, the Queensland government having overlooked the fact that death does not recognise bureaucratic timeframes.
A SPECTRE is haunting the world – the Mussolini syndrome where the leader addresses the populace based on a cocktail of alien, fashionable dogmas, announcing decisions taken which will significantly change their lives.No longer needing a Palazzo Venezia balcony like Mussolini’s to speak from, leaders today do this through electronic devices now found everywhere.
