Appointing Youth Justice Minister Laura Gerber’s top bureaucrat marks the first in a series of looming LNP moves to shore up the highest public service ranks.
Amid a largely unrelated bill introduced last month,the LNP has floated changes to public transport procurement laws to fast-track the watered-down project.
Police can seize illegal bikes,but the government hasn’t yet explained how to get an official sticker proving your bike is legal – or how to apply for an exemption from the licence rules.
Queensland’s union movement has criticised ‘deranged’ Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie and the Crisafulli LNP’s declaration of ‘ideological war’,as relations deteriorate further.
Queensland’s public-spending watchdog now plans to release its audit of the $188 million Unify upgrade in months,as pressure mounts on the department and minister.
Some industrial action will continue,but unions have withdrawn a threat to extend it to the State of Origin next week.
Ali France shot to national fame after she unseated Peter Dutton in Brisbane’s outer northern electorate at the last federal poll.
Police believe a man might have started the fire inside a locked room.
The deputy premier has quietly removed all six union officials from two key workplace boards. Their replacements include LNP insiders and industry figures.
Queensland’s first electoral redistribution since 2017 could leave the LNP better off by two seats,while a KAP MP’s seat will be abolished for a third time.
Licensed pubs and clubs will be allowed to trade between 3am and 7am on Saturday for the match – only the third time the men’s team have made the do-or-die stages of the World Cup.