The most senior Queensland Greens MP,Michael Berkman,says by fighting his party for city seats,Labor enabled the conservatives to grow stronger.
While both major party leaders suggest they want a contest of ideas,a recent report highlights a gap in debate again descending into point-scoring and scaremongering.
The government has been accused of “admitting defeat” as it downgrades its public transport usage forecast to just 9 per cent of motorised journeys by 2050.
The state has cited only “some evidence” of an increase in the number of serious repeat offenders to justify the changes,prompting swift criticism from the rights watchdog.
A state politician says the war on drugs has failed and “we shouldn’t be locking anyone up for drug use or addiction”.
A powerful parliamentary body has been asked to probe the actions of the minor party’s two Queensland state MPs amid a vague warning from the Premier.
Queensland’s Labor government is coming under increased pressure to tear up its exclusivity deal with Airtrain to run public transport services to Brisbane Airport.
Brisbane City Council has approved a residential tower for the site at which its delayed green bridge,between Toowong and West End,was to land on the north bank of the river.
Queensland Parliament has been urged to block a private member’s bill from an MP who warned that any compromise could delay further reform.
The criminal history of children aged under 14 would be wiped and kids moved out of detention centres under a private member’s bill.
Workers in the mining industry have the highest average earnings in the nation.