Campbell Newman’s premiership was an object lesson in the dangers of untrammelled power. Queensland needs an upper house to keep governments out of trouble From polling day on 31 January until the swearing in of Annastacia Palaszczuk as Labor premier seventeen days later, Queenslanders were treated to the usual tired scaremongering about the evils of...

Queensland Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk claims there are almost 31,000 more Queenslanders without a job since March 2012 and blames the Liberal government for the rise.

A new report has found the Liberal National Party (LNP) has little appetite for evidence-based measures to reduce alcohol harms; with the Newman Government (LNP) indicating full support for only one in ten alcohol policy measures proposed by a group of leading public health experts. The Queensland Greens, Labor and Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) all...

This paper disputes claims that the development of coal mines in Queensland’s Galilee Basin will create 27,000 jobs. Overview In recent media statements senior Queensland Government members have claimed that development of coal mines in Queensland’s Galilee Basin will create 27,000 jobs. No source for this figure is provided in the media statements and no...

Queensland Premier Campbell Newman claims Queensland crime rates have "gone down very very significantly" because of Liberal policy.