Category: Politics

We wrote the story above early this week. The Courier-Mail finally caught up today (below). You always hear it here first. https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/qld-politics/george-street-beat-was-premier-unwise-to-defy-union-boss/news-story/3f45dbd0ef65232a9a1a4328880e59f7 The wisdom of Annastacia Palaszczuk’s declaration she doesn’t need the support of union powerbroker Gary ‘Blocker’ Bullock has been questioned by her colleagues. Amid revelations unions were polling Queenslanders on her performance, GSB […]

This below is the Arab world’s take on Palestine/Israel, as told by the news service Al Jazeera, who are quite distinct from Al-Qaida and have nothing to do with terrorist outfits at all. I am not saying they are right or wrong in what they say. All I am saying is that to understand WTF […]

The Today show yesterday told us that Jacinda Arden would be contesting the Victorian leadership vacancy created by the resignation of Dan Andrews. She would have needed a seat first. And Australian citizenship. Oops.

This is Curtis Pitt, the often missing, often pissed QLD speaker of the House. He is not travelling too well for a bloke who is only 46 is he? Pitt returned to his job today after almost 4 months of paid absentia. While he was away he said he had a back operation, and feels […]