Commentary In May, with the support of the opposition and the left-wing Greens, the Queensland state Parliament adopted the Path to Treaty Act 2023. Although media outlets and opinion pages have been saturated with stories about “The Voice” and Indigenous claims to sovereignty, there has been little discussion of this potentially divisive Queensland legislation. Unsurprisingly,…
Queensland Liberal-Nationals’ Impotence on Full Display With Support for Treaty Bill
June 5, 2023
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Environmentalist Group Calls on Banks to Set ‘Deforestation’ Targets
June 4, 2023
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The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) says banks should consider attaching “deforestation” conditions on loans in a proposal most likely to impact farmers. The ACF claimed that over 200,000 hectares of koala-inhabited habitat in Queensland, Australia, were destroyed in the past 10 years and that over 364,000 hectares of native vegetation were cleared from 2018 to…
World’s 1st Genetically Modified Banana Sent for Approval
May 15, 2023
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Australian researchers have developed the first genetically modified (GM) banana in the world and now await official approval from food authorities to produce and sell the banana crops on a large scale. The Cavendish variety of bananas known as QCAV-4 was engineered by scientists at Australia’s Queensland University of Technology (QUT), and is a major…
Australian State Premier Says She’s Willing to Go to the UK to Retrieve ‘Priceless’ Artefacts
May 14, 2023
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Queensland state leader Annastacia Palaszczuk says she is willing to travel to the UK to try and retrieve artefacts belonging to the ancestors of local Indigenous communities. The Labor premier’s comments come after the Queensland Parliament, on May 10, passed a new law—with bipartisan support—to set up a “Truth-telling inquiry” to investigate the “continuing impacts”…
Australian State Premier Willing to Go to the UK to Retrieve ‘Priceless’ Indigenous Artefacts
May 14, 2023
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Queensland state leader Annastacia Palaszczuk says she is willing to travel to the UK to try and retrieve artefacts belonging to the ancestors of local Indigenous communities. The Labor premier’s comments come after the Queensland Parliament, on May 10, passed a new law—with bipartisan support—to set up a “Truth-telling inquiry” to investigate the “continuing impacts”…
Queensland Hands Over $200 Million Quarantine Camp
Australia’s Sunshine State has given away a $220 million (US$146 million) taxpayer-funded quarantine facility after it housed just 730 travellers over a 14-month period. The cost equates to around $300,000 per person. The Queensland Labor government will return control of the facility to the Wagner Corporation upon expiration of the lease, who will then run…
Drug Reforms? More Like Drug Deforms
Commentary Talk about “drug reform” should always start with the recognition that non-medically prescribed drugs deform. Drug use unrelated to medical conditions nearly always deforms and harms health. Surely the Queensland government is aware of that truth. So why does it want to make life easier for the drug pedlars and their hapless clients? All…
Who Comes First in the Trans Debate? Parents or Teachers?
April 23, 2023
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Commentary Who should have the authority in relation to a child’s welfare? Most mums and dads would be confident in asserting no one loves their children or is more invested in their children than they are. As the wise saying goes, “Blood is thicker than water.” The bond between parent and child is strong and…
Curious Diner Makes Dinosaur Discovery in Chinese Restaurant
April 21, 2023
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A perceptive diner has spotted dinosaur footprints in a restaurant in southwestern China, with an international research team confirming that they belonged to the sauropod—a long-necked and small-headed herbivore. Hongtao Ou, a self-reported palaeontology buff, was having a meal at a restaurant in Leshan, Sichuan, when he found evenly divided craters on the floor and…
Struggle for Qld Maternity Staff Detailed in FOI Docs
Maternity services at two Queensland regional hospitals were under threat last year as the Health Department struggled to find staff amid a COVID-19 wave, freedom of information documents reveal. Email correspondence obtained by the state opposition under FOI laws details efforts to find obstetrics staff for the city of Gladstone, which went on bypass in…
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