Sarah Elks
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Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Overhaul needed to end Queensland mining’s fatality cycle, review says
Queenslands mining industry needs to significantly overhaul training and supervision for its workers, or miners will continue to be killed in an ongoing fatality cycle, a damning major independent review has warned. → Read More
Mark Bailey denies misleading Queensland parliament over ETU emails
Under-fire Queensland Minister Mark Bailey has denied misleading parliament over using his private email account to secretly and regularly correspond with a powerful union boss. → Read More
Tree-clearing, donations, obesity on Palaszczuk’s hitlist
The re-elected Palaszczuk government will prioritise a crackdown on tree-clearing, political donations from property developers, tow-truck operators, obesity, and cars that turn out to be lemons. → Read More
Former Queensland Treasurer Curtis Pitt elected parliamentary Speaker
Former Queensland Treasurer Curtis Pitt has been elected the states new parliamentary Speaker, despite Opposition accusations the job was a consolation prize for a humiliated man. → Read More
Queensland election 2017 live:
Hello and welcome to our rolling coverage of the Queensland state election. With just five days until Saturdays poll, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Opposition Leader Tim Nicholls will start the last week of the election campaign in the regions in a last-ditch effort to win over voters. → Read More
Queensland police chase policy may be revived
An LNP government would revive Queenslands dangerous police chase policy — which saw 10 people killed in just three years and sparked a damning Coroners warning — to stop kids in the must-win city of Townsville doing burnouts. → Read More
Queensland election 2017 live: News, opinion, updates from the campaign trail
Hello and welcome to live coverage of day 15 of the Queensland state election campaign, ahead of the November 25 poll. Annastacia Palaszczuk will head back to Townsville, Tim Nicholls will remain in the states southeast, while One Nations Battler Bus continues its northern voyage. → Read More
Queensland election 2017 live: News, opinion, updates from campaign trail
Hello and welcome to live coverage of day 12 of the Queensland state election campaign, ahead of the November 25 poll. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk will travel to the Wide Bay region, Opposition Leader Tim Nicholls is expected to travel to the Gold Coast while Pauline Hansons battler bus is bound for Mackay and Bowen. → Read More
Annastacia Palaszczuk’s Queensland public service balloons
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has hired an extra 1651 full-time equivalent public servants in just three months, with her ballooning public service expanding by nearly 20,000 during her reign. → Read More
Controversial legislation passes through Queensland parliament
Controversial industrial manslaughter legislation has passed through Queenslands hung parliament, despite objections from the Liberal National Party which described it as Labors payback to the unions. → Read More
MP votes against Adler regulation
A Queensland Liberal National Party MP has voted against tightening regulation of the Adler lever-action shotgun, in defiance of his own party and the Palaszczuk government. → Read More
Queensland politics: Rob Pyne backs industrial manslaughter laws
Queensland independent Rob Pyne has backed Labors controversial industrial manslaughter legislation, but his fellow crossbenchers are undecided on the move as the mining industry steps up lobbying efforts. → Read More
Queensland ALP: Property developer donates $33k
The Queensland ALP received 33,500 from a major property developer on the same day Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk promised to ban political donations from developers. → Read More
Bolstering confidence at the council level
An independent watchdog will replace council chief executive officers as the arbiter of behaviour complaints against Queensland councillors, in the latest of a string of reforms to improve local government in Queensland. → Read More
Queensland MP Bill Byrne quits Palaszczuk cabinet
Queenslands Agriculture Minister Bill Byrne has tendered his resignation, revealing he is battling a life-threatening illness. → Read More
Tim Nicholls leaves door open to governing with One Nation
Queensland Opposition leader Tim Nicholls has left the door open to governing with One Nation support by accepting the minor partys vote on the floor of parliament after the next state election. → Read More
Palaszczuk silent over KPMG report on ballooning public service
Queensland voters may go to the polls without knowing the results of the 165,000 taxpayer-funded KPMG report into the governments ballooning public service. → Read More
Clive Palmer launches bid to disqualify judge from hearing court battle
Clive Palmer has failed in an extraordinary bid to have a Supreme Court judge disqualified from hearing a US16m legal fight, alleging judges across Australia have been secretly communicating about him. → Read More
LNP preselects Brent Mickelberg to challenge One Nation’s Steve Dickson
Queenslands Liberal National Party has preselected the son of a party chief to fight LNP defector and One Nation state leader Steve Dickson for his Sunshine Coast seat. → Read More
Clive Mensink a court no-show for second time
Clive Mensink a court no-show for second time * Sarah Elks * The Australian * 12:47PM February 21, 2017 * Save * * UPDATE: Liquidators are considering applying for a Federal Court arrest warrant for Clive Palmer’s nephew Clive Mensink after he failed to show at court on “medical grounds”. Barrister Walter Sofronoff QC, for Queensland Nickel’s general purpose liquidators FTI Consulting, told… → Read More