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December 10, 2023
The shock resignation of Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk followed on from a frank conversation with a powerful union leader and an major ALP player, it has been revealed.
June 15, 2023
Labor powerbrokers were so concerned for the health and wellbeing of Queensland Speaker Curtis Pitt during his extraordinary...
June 6, 2023
A motion supporting AUKUS was rejected by Queensland Labor delegates at its conference in Mackay. Alex Bainbridge reports.
February 18, 2022
On the evening of Thursday 13 August, the Federal Court ordered reinstatement of 97 dockworkers whom Hutchison Ports summarily sacked with immediate effect at their Brisbane and Sydney container terminals by email at 11:30 p.m. on Thursday 6 August.
June 5, 2021
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says the federal government can design, build, own and operate a quarantine facility in Queensland.
June 5, 2021
A union leader has been reprimanded for his use of language at Labor’s state conference after anger erupted over mine safety.
February 13, 2021
“I’ll know my song well before I start singing it,” Bob Dylan wrote in 1963. When it comes to Queensland, federal Labor is still working on its song. But the party is hopeful Anthony Albanese and the party machine at least have a tune. Albanese’s sortie north had been in the works for more than a year, but the pandemic played havoc with everybody’s plans. The Labor leader then planned to use the summer to make up for lost time campaigning in...