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Turnbull Government knew of Qld land grab before election – @qldaah #qldpol #auspol

February 16, 2017

The Singapore deal to acquire land around the existing defence bases at Shoalwater Bay & Townsville may have been kept from Queensland voters at the 2016 federal election.

Filed Under: #ausvotes, #ausvotes2016, #QldWeekly, David Marler, Defence Force, Democracy, Front Page, Parliament, Queensland Tagged With: agriculture, Annastacia Palaszczuk, Australia, Barnaby Joyce, defence, Joel Fitzgibbon, Malcolm Turnbull, marise payne, murray watt, Penny Wong, Queensland, shoalwater

Stop the guns: Tony Abbott saved Australia. Again. – @Qldaah #auspol

October 20, 2016

The debate over the Adler 110 shotgun reaches new levels of absurdity in Canberra. You probably missed it but somewhere back in 2015 Prime Minister Tony Abbott threw himself into the breach once more to save the country. This time it wasn’t in the path of raggedly dressed refugees on boats. This time it was real. This […]

Filed Under: #QldWeekly, David Marler, Democracy, Front Page, New South Wales, Parliament, Queensland, State Politics Tagged With: ABC, abc 730, adler, adler 110, Australia, Canberra, David Leyonhjelm, gun laws, gun ownership, Leigh Sales, Malcolm Turnbull, Tony Abbott

Malcolm Turnbull’s worst day at the office – @Qldaah #auspol

October 18, 2016

Nauru, the Adler shotgun and liberty.

Filed Under: #QldWeekly, Asylum Seekers, David Marler, Democracy, Front Page, Immigration, Parliament Tagged With: #auspol, abcc, adler shotgun, Australian Building and Construction Commission, coaltion, Labor, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Tony Abbott, tony burke

In absentia, Wyatt Roy clears himself of ‘war tourism’ – @Qldaah #auspol #qldpol

October 17, 2016

Wyatt Roy’s trip into the Daesh conflict zone raises senate committee questions.

Filed Under: #QldWeekly, David Marler, Defence Force, Democracy, Front Page, Immigration, Parliament Tagged With: AFP, andrew colvin, Australian Federal Police, daesh, George Brandis, Greens, isil, ISIS, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, michael phelan, wyatt roy

Where the rubber hits the road – @Qldaah #qldpol

October 12, 2016

The fallout from Campbell Newman’s anti-hooning laws.

Filed Under: #QldWeekly, David Marler, Front Page, Parliament, Queensland, State Politics Tagged With: ABC, Alexandra Blucher, Brisbane, Campbell Newman, LNP, mike keating, Peter Wyer, Queensland, queensland police service, tow truck, tow.com.au

He’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty Wyatt Roy – @Qldaah #qldpol #auspol

October 5, 2016

The radicalisation of a future prime minister.

Filed Under: #QldWeekly, Ashby Conspiracy, David Marler, Democracy, Front Page, Parliament, Queensland Tagged With: @dotnetnoobie, Andrew Bolt, Ashbygate, Australia, daesh, iraq, isil, James Ashby, Julie Bishop, Liberal Party, longman, Malcolm Turnbull, peshmerga, Peter Slipper, Queensland, susan lamb, syria, wyatt roy

#CensusFail: John Citizen meets Joe Public – @Qldaah #auspol

August 14, 2016

e-Census software tester Revolution IT claims it was not given a mandate to test against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks but a curious testimonial from Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Technical Director, John Citizen, praises their subject knowledge and advice.