The Latest Breaking News from Joh BjelkePetersen

Labor summit 'most united' but Israel debate quashed

Anthony Albanese has singled out unity among Labor delegates at the party's triennial policy summit but contentious issues remained off the conference floor.

AAP · Jul 24

Here we Joh again? The spectre of Bjelke-Petersen still looms large over Queensland

The LNP’s unapologetic moves on Indigenous issues, crime, transgender healthcare and police-led suppression of protests are a throwback to days many thought had come and gone

The Guardian - AU · Jun 26

Big test for Hanson looms in front of the National Press Club

It's a big opportunity, but also a big risk.

The Canberra Times · Jun 5

Queensland’s ‘from the river to the sea’ laws likened to Bjelke-Petersen era anti-protest regime

Health minister Tim Nicholls corrects claim alleged Bondi terror attack gunman Naveed Akram used controversial phrase, as laws roundly criticised

The Guardian - AU · Mar 12

Seats lost, regional voters 'betrayed' in revamp

An electoral review has recommended scrapping seats, changing boundaries and renaming electorates as one state redraws the political map.

AAP · Mar 11

Anti-Semitism laws banning chants draws mixed reaction

Critics have slammed new laws designed to combat anti-Semitism as overreach, but a last-minute change reduces a minister's extraordinary powers.

AAP · Mar 5

Nationals great Ron Boswell, more effective than pretty

Ron Boswell was a deal-maker and implacable opponent of extremists during his 31 years as a Queensland senator.

AAP · Jan 6

The premier, the poet and the fight to save a frog

As amphibian enthusiasts get ready to hop into FrogID Week, hope persists that one of Australia's most bizarre creatures may survive.

AAP · Nov 7, 2025

Half a century ago, the Great Barrier Reef was to be drilled for oil. It was saved – for a time

At the end of the 1960s, there was every expectation the Great Barrier Reef would be drilled for oil.

The Conversation · Sep 2, 2025

From ‘Stone Age’ treasury boss to National Party Senator: John Stone 1929–2025

John Owen Stone AO was a legendary leader of the Commonwealth Treasury. He was secretary (departmental head) from January 1979 to September 1984 but was an intellectual driving force before then as deputy secretary from 1971 to 1978.

The Conversation · Jul 18, 2025