Looks like the environment movement has finally managed to define “being alive” as an act of vandalism. This morning on ABC Radio National Breakfast I have repeatedly heard the meeting US sponsored meeting on climate change described as a meeting of “the 16 largest polluters”, referring to their level […] Continue Reading…

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 […] Continue Reading…

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 […] Continue Reading…

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 […] Continue Reading…

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 […] Continue Reading…

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 […] Continue Reading…

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 […] Continue Reading…

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 […] Continue Reading…

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 […] Continue Reading…