The tiny record shop that faced down a culture war in court – and won https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jul/09/brisbane-rocking-horse-records-50-year-anniversary-is-the-f-word-offensive-in-queensland-court-case
'Brisbane’s Rocking Horse Records turns 50 this year – but it should also be celebrated for its role in facing down a ‘nonsense’ culture war that began with undercover cops and the Dead Kennedys'
#music #history #auslaw #auspol #qldpol #medialaw

Big shout out to the Qld LNP for failing to keep the https://www.qld.gov.au/transport/projects/electricvehicles/super-highway fully maintained.

We had to charge our two EVs on the one working charge station connection - Type 2! - at Carmilla on the way up to Port Douglas.
We can't avoid it on the way back, with two full cars, but we do have a plan to minimise the pain.
Carmilla was not the only Yurika charge station with problems, but it was the worst.

Queensland Premier David Crisafulli will stand with a US flag but he won't stand with the Indigenous flag or the Torres Strait Islander flag as his predecessors have done.

Why? #qldpol

Donald Trump lands at Brisbane Airport in 2026. Queensland authorities swoop in, arrest him & transfer him to Wolston prison.

The world breathes a sigh of relief. Queenslanders hold the day. #qldpol

The Qld govt built the Story Bridge. It must be returned to the state. Take the burden off Brisbane ratepayers & renters. A good treasurer will then work with the public servants to undertake the necessary restoration & maintenance. #qldpol https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/lord-mayor-calls-for-80-20-split-on-story-bridge-as-new-footpath-details-revealed-20250619-p5m8s5.html

If this has to happen it's better that it happens here in Qld than in any other state. We don't want any other Australian premier (Liberal or Labor) standing alongside Donald Trump so let our idiot Qld premier take the fall.

We will go to the gates. It's what we do. #qldpol

Matthew Condon's series of books explains how Queensland became the most corrupt jurisdiction in Australian history under the National Party of Joh Bjelke-Petersen. #qldpol

How did Queensland get into this mess?

We get to August of 2024 and it's obvious that David Crisafulli is spouting absolute nonsense. It's red flag territory. He should be cooked at this point.

What does the Queensland media do with this? Zero. #qldpol

"It’s an approach that a business owner or a finance accounting would take, it’s a blunt instrument." What is Qld Health Minister Tim Nicholls up to with his new KPIs for doctors, nurses & ambos? It sounds good but it places more pressure on emergency care workers. #qldpol

The hated games. The white-shoe brigade love Jarrod Bleijie but it's his self-righteous, pompous attitude with a Joh-fisted arrogance that has people offside. Now that he's using federal funds to bulldoze Barrambin, Australians will grow to loathe the whole thing too. #qldpol

How Qld Premier David Crisafulli earned his nickname of David Fully-Costed.

It was in the lead up to the 2024 state election. Given the Qld investigative journalism that led to the Fitzgerald Inquiry you'd think the media would have torn him apart at this point. Nup. #qldpol

Australia, Queensland Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie now has your tax dollars in his hands to bulldoze Barrambin Victoria Park. He has made himself ultimate decider on all things Olympics. He is worse than Peter Dutton. He is the equivalent of Joh Bjelke-Petersen. #qldpol

Is David Crisafulli following predecessor Campbell Newman into a spectacular defeat in 2028? He says the comparison with his former leader is not fair.

Queensland has always been and always will be a state of protest. #qldpol

More housing stress for Qld. How Jarrod Bleijie's bulldozing threat to Indigenous people over Barrambin Victoria Park becomes sanitized. The Olympics is no longer about sport but a major property grab. #qldpol

Victoria ICYMI, that bizarre GST attack on Monday from the Qld Crisafulli government on the Vic Allan government was a distraction (and a pathetic one at that). They've started the whole privatisation thing again on us. #qldpol https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/queensland/new-ttt-to-deliver-more-ppps-for-queensland-20250630-p5mbeg.html

Qld's Supreme Court will consider whether Moreton Bay Council's destruction of people's possessions in Eddie Hyland Park in April constituted a human rights violation. Homeless had been camping at the otherwise empty plot of council bush reserve. #qldpol https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-02/court-pauses-moreton-bay-homeless-camp-demolition/105484868

this disgusting demonisation of the homeless is halted permanently
#Brisbane #Queensland #QldPol
#homeless
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-02/court-pauses-moreton-bay-homeless-camp-demolition/105484868

On Monday while most of Qld's media were speculating on GST pie & a nonsensical Victorian Yarra River ferry story the real privatisation agenda was being announced by the Qld LNP. Asset sales are back but most Queenslanders won't know about it. #qldpol https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/queensland/new-ttt-to-deliver-more-ppps-for-queensland-20250630-p5mbeg.html

Queensland Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie is more interested in being an Elvis impersonator than taking any meaningful action on climate change. LNP-ruled Queensland is what Australia would have looked like under Peter Dutton & David Littleproud. #qldpol https://reneweconomy.com.au/parkinson-report-australias-decision-makers-are-ignoring-climate-hailing-coal-and-impersonating-elvis/

The Qld LNP can't deliver a state budget without blaming someone. It's all nonsense when they can conjure up billions to bulldoze parks for their Olympics monuments; the Crisafulli Colosseum & the Bleijie Blight Bowl. #qldpol