Patrick Condren
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Tweet-spin
There's tweets, twitscoop, twits and even twitterific. I'd like to add tweet-spin....
Wed, July 15, 2009, 3:25 pm EST -
Love and war
When it comes to politics is it all fair in love and...
Tue, March 17, 2009, 2:53 pm EST -
The final countdown
After 22 days of low profile, lacklustre and downright weird campaigning the outcome of the Queensland election hinges on the final four...
Mon, March 16, 2009, 9:38 pm EST -
Crossed eyes all round
During election campaigns, politicians hold one, sometimes two, media conferences a day. Then there's the shopping centre walkabouts and the radio interviews and ... well, you get the drift. Basically they have to do a helluva lot of talking. But...
Tue, March 10, 2009, 3:59 pm EST -
Economic attacks
A day after announcing plans to slash $1b from the public service, Lawrence Springborg now reckons he'll have the budget back in surplus by 2012.Thanks to the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) the budget will go more than $3b into deficit next financial...
Wed, March 4, 2009, 4:55 pm EST -
Still waiting...
Isn't it amazing how an election focuses a political party's attention? Especially one that's trying for a fifth term in office on the back of poor records in health, infrastructure and education. Last week I spent two days trying to find out how many...
Tue, March 3, 2009, 3:36 pm EST -
Bloody boring
The first week of the campaign is over. And the word that best sums it up so far is. Boring. No make that two words. Bloody Boring.Apart from some silly singing and dancing by opposition leader Lawrence Springborg the most exciting thing to happen...
Mon, March 2, 2009, 6:07 pm EST -
Funny things elections
They are hilarious, unless you actually happen to be covering one especially in the heat of a Queensland summer like I am at the moment.It's the little things that are the most annoying like trying to find out where you going to be. Not next week,...
Thu, February 26, 2009, 8:24 am EST -
An early election blow
Opposition leader Lawrence Springborg has suffered an early blow in his third bid to become Premier. Former LNP rising star Stuart Copeland has announced he'll stand as an Independent. Mr Springborg couldn't find a new seat for Mr Copeland after...
Tue, February 24, 2009, 11:03 am EST -
Clearing the decks
Queensland is on election alert. Two senior Labor MPs have decided not to contest the next election - taking the total so far to four. But expect more to follow.One of those not going around again is Education Minister Rod Welford. Anna Bligh is is yet...
Mon, February 16, 2009, 5:35 pm EST -
Dear oh dear...the saga continues
Dear oh dear... The LNP billionaire benefactor Clive Palmer saga shows no sign of abating.Leader Lawrence Springborg has certainly had enough describing the affair as a sideshow, "It's not something you'd want to see go on."He's unlikely to...
Fri, February 6, 2009, 12:37 pm EST -
Thanks for nothing
It's the stuff of comic books. Queensland's most powerful woman is doing battle with the state's wealthiest man.Clive Palmer is suing Anna Bligh for $1,000,000 and wants her to apologise for suggesting he's "bought" the Liberal National Party,...
Tue, February 3, 2009, 3:11 pm EST -
Liberal-National merger mayhem
What's a Queensland political joke?The Liberal Party.This lot have languished as the junior party in a coalition that has been comprehensively flogged at the last three elections.Members from both the Liberals and their coalition partners the nationals...
Tue, July 15, 2008, 3:01 pm EST -
Liberal/National merger
Queensland Nationals leader Lawrence Springborg has spent seven years trying to woo his Liberal coalition partner into a political marriage.Just when he thought he was going to get his bride up the aisle along comes the newly installed Liberal...
Thu, July 10, 2008, 8:15 pm EST -
Lib-Nat tensions - and nudity
An MP unleashes a 'spray', while Patrick is hurt that Anna Bligh would not attend a nude beach if he was...
Wed, May 14, 2008, 12:55 pm EST -
The Government must act
"When did you become sexually active?"Not really the sort of question you expect to be asked by Queensland's first female Premier and for once I didn't have a ready answer. Well I did but it's not fit to print here.Anna Bligh had just finished...
Tue, April 22, 2008, 11:25 am EST -
What's in a name? Quite a lot...
Rightio, with the council elections out of the way it's full steam ahead with a merger between the Liberal Party and the Nationals in Queensland.There's plenty of work to be done.They've got to sort of all manner of things... like stationary, branding....
Mon, March 31, 2008, 11:30 am EST -
A pot-full of confessions
Right, hands up anyone in Queensland politics who HAS NOT tried marijuana. Not you Lawrence everyone knows that the only numbers you've done are in the Nationals' party-room. Same goes for you Mark McArdle, the only thing straighter is a ruler.There was...
Thu, March 6, 2008, 10:30 am EST -
This is politics Queensland style
Seven months ago then Emergency Services minister Pat Purcell was accused of hitting two senior public servants, he denied it but Premier Peter Beattie let him resign from the ministry for 'personal...
Mon, February 25, 2008, 4:24 pm EST
