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Queensland Human Rights Commissioner Debbie Platz APM in her Brisbane office during her first month in the role.

Watchdog’s silence on controversial government bill sparks alarm

New human rights boss Debbie Platz declined to publicly weigh in on the LNP’s proposed drug crackdown and new police power expansion.

  • Matt Dennien

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Queensland parliament in full flight during a February 2025 sitting.

Queensland politics LIVE updates: Crisafulli to use national cabinet to call for consistent federal fuel information

Follow our live politics blog for the latest in Queensland parliament.

  • Matt Dennien
Premier David Crisafulli.

Queensland politics as it happened: Parliament on Wednesday, March 25

State-care abuse and oil refineries were among the day’s major topics in Queensland parliament.

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Queensland Premier David Crisafulli says the state has “threaded the needle” on climate and energy issues.

Queensland politics: Parliament resumes, with WorkCover review coming, teachers underpaid

Follow our live politics blog for the latest.

  • Matt Dennien
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during question time.

Question time as it happened: former spy chief quits antisemitism royal commission; government battles fuel supply questions amid panic buying

The House of Representatives is sitting as the war in the Middle East continues to wreak havoc on the global oil market.

  • Nick Newling
“While we acknowledge the outcome of the election and the policy that was taken to it by the LNP, that policy was in slogan and infancy form at best,” Labor’s shadow attorney-general Meaghan Scanlon said.

Election map redraw could hand LNP up to three seats, analysis suggests

Boundary shifts appear likely to see the seat of Labor’s Meaghan Scanlon turn blue, as the major parties trade barbs over the work.

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Nationals leader Matt Canavan arriving at a press conference after his election.

Question time as it happened: Matt Canavan elected new leader of the National Party; two more Iranian women seek asylum

The House of Representatives is sitting for question time amid the ongoing war in the Middle East and a shakeup of Coalition leadership.

  • Nick Newling
Voters cast their ballots in Brisbane on Queensland state election day in October 2024.

Two seats scrapped in proposed redraw of Queensland electoral map

The long-awaited changes would see two new districts created and 19 renamed ahead of the 2028 state election.

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Outgoing Premier Hon Steven Miles addresses media for the first time following the Labor party’s defeat in the 2024 Queensland State Election.

Labor finds some spine on hate laws – and the LNP reaches for outrage

The opposition’s most significant symbolic gesture since it was swept from power at the 2024 state election carries risk for the party on two fronts.

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Protesters taking part in the March for Palestine in Brisbane in August, attended by tens of thousands of people

Labor opposes hate speech and gun control law to LNP jeers

Queensland’s Deputy Premier has launched an inflammatory tirade accusing Labor of supporting terrorists and antisemitism after Thursday’s parliamentary vote.

  • Matt Dennien