Joh Bjelke-Petersen
- Opinion
- Life in the ’burbs
My suburb has a reputation for sleaze. But now Sydney and Melbourne want to emulate it
I’ve seen things here I wouldn’t tell my mother about – but this place has an incredible history – and an exciting future.
- Matt Shea
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- Political Sketch
- Political leadership
It’s a mess of Titanic proportions on the Coalition’s ship of fools
The Nationals shoved all around them out of the way as they fled for the lifeboats.
- Tony Wright
- The year that changed me
- Protests
I wanted to hitchhike to Sydney. The pill-gobbling truckie had other ideas
The truckie’s plan in case the pills weren’t sufficient was that I had to stay awake to prod him in the ribs if he started nodding off. He wouldn’t share his amphetamines.
- Tony Wright
‘Where’s our transmitter?’ How the Whitlam dismissal nearly silenced radio 4ZZZ
The birth of Queensland’s first community radio station 50 years ago was a story of insurmountable odds meeting implacable effort – and a few cunning tricks.
- Nick Dent
‘She heard an extraordinary plot against the government’: The call that would haunt Winsome Nash
For 50 years, a family kept a secret about events leading up to a cataclysmic moment in Australian politics. Now they are going public.
- Peter Rees
The premier, the poet and the fight to save a frog
It’s a story almost too preposterous to believe, starring a group of uni students, an infamous state premier, a legendary Australian poet and an extinct frog that gave birth by vomiting its young.
- Andrew Stafford
Brisbane crane index shows shift to residential ... for now
Brisbane’s latest crane count shows a 12 per cent increase in the number of cranes punctuating the city’s skyline.
- Cameron Atfield
Joh’s cops arrested their drummer ‘because he was black’. Forty years on, these punk icons are back
The Dead Kennedys’ 1983 visit to Brisbane is the stuff of legend. Now, fans are abuzz once more as the punk pioneers return.
- Nick Dent
Texas governor orders arrest of Democrats who fled Trump-backed gerrymander stoush
In one of the many US states where partisan gerrymandering is the norm, Democratic lawmakers left Texas to avoid debate on a proposed electoral map. So Republicans issued warrants.
- Michael Koziol
- Opinion
- Liberal Party
The battle for the soul of conservative Australia may have just begun
If the existing split in the Coalition moves beyond a difference about policy, the self-destructive consequences will be devastating.
- George Brandis