I’ve just fired-off a letter to the Liberal Party’s General Secretary. The party extended their deadline for me to respond to the Disciplinary Committee’s report until 5:00 pm today. They may hold a special meeting of State Council to consider the report and my response no earlier than 5:00 pm tomorrow. My reply was that […]

We might be somewhere around 5 to 6 weeks away from a federal election, but the Queensland Liberal Party State Council appeared to be more interested in making a meal of its own than stopping the Rudd threshing machine. There were two major decisions that they needed to make – whether to proceed with the […]

The latest Newspoll has the government recovering by 4%. This could be a result of sampling error. Since July this year Newspoll has given a series of results that have clustered around a two-party preferred vote of 56 Labor, 44 Government. This most recent result of 55 to 44 is therefore well within the sampling […]

Until the Goss government came to power in Queensland poker machines were limited to casinos and one of the small excitements available amidst suburban domestic boredom was making a bus trip over the border to the Terranora Lakes Country Club where poker machine gambling could be done legally. When Goss left power, poker machines were […]

The hagiographers are out in force painting a saintly picture of Peter Beattie. But if they’re right, and Beattie is an honest man, then he’ll have no problems with this piece. Beattie will be remembered as a wiley politician, but not as someone who built Queensland. He’s a fox, not a beaver, and it’s a […]

I don’t think this one will be a huge hit on YouTube. Peter Garrett appears to be doing a Don Burke (Chair of the Australian Environment Foundation and former celebrity gardener) impersonation. (Except I think Burke has a more optimistic view of just how threatening global warming is than Garrett does). While Howard is breaking […]

Should John Howard abdicate? Various Newscorp columnists and analysts, such as Andrew Bolt, Paul Kelly and Janet Albrechtsen, think so. Is this their view, their organisation’s, or are they being fed by would be successors to Howard? In other words, does it have legs? Hard to tell, and it doesn’t really matter – from the […]

That’s the dream of Queensland Premier Peter Beattie. Premier Beattie appeared at the Brisbane Club today, to declare victory over drought to the Brisbane business community on the basis that the recycled water plant is now working. So flushed with success was he that, having just patched the water situation, he then proceeded to pitch […]

There’s a small billboard at the Kelvin Grove fiveways with a Liberal logo on it and the words “Doing what’s right for Australia”. Couldn’t see an authorisation. Someone has to be setting the Liberals up, aren’t they?????? At least they don’t spell “right” with a capital “R”.

I’ve been vaguely following the Gunns’ pulp mill saga, biased against the project by the company’s ham-fisted public relations strategies. It’s hard to feel sympathetic for an organisation that bullies everyone the way that Gunns does. This morning I decided to have a closer look at one point in the controversy – that the mill […]