Pauline Hanson, please explain
Who does Ms Pauline Hanson think she is?
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She has been in the media since the Premier announced the election date claiming that the Premier should not have called the election while she (Pauline Hanson) is out of the country.
If Pauline Hanson decides to "JETSET" to India at taxpayer expense why in heavens name should Queensland or indeed Australia come to a standstill?
This woman certainly has tickets on herself and does not impress me at all.
Kendall Santillan,
Mount Isa
Remembering Kokoda 75 years on
On November 2, 75 years ago, Australian soldiers retook the village of Kokoda in Papua New Guinea in the Pacific campaign of the Second World War.
Between July and November 1942, Australian forces fought the numerically stronger Japanese in abysmal conditions along the Kokoda Track.
The Australians sustained more than 600 dead and more than 1600 were wounded or struck down by illness or disease.
The Australians forced the Japanese into retreat, culminating in battles at the Beachheads which came at an enormous cost — more than 1,200 Australian lives lost and more than 2,000 wounded.
Today, I ask all Australians to pause and reflect on the service and sacrifice of these great Australians and of all those who served on the Kokoda Track and at the Beachheads during the Second World War.
We also remember the estimated 50,000 Papuan civilians who provided supplies to Australian soldiers and evacuated our sick and wounded.
Dan Tehan
Federal Minister for Veterans Affairs
With apologies to Doctor Seuss
The shot's been fired, the race yet run.
Election fever has begun.
That looney-tooney Bobby Katter
Thinks he has already won.
He dreams of balances of power
And ethanol and Adler guns
And killing crocodiles and things
That didn't ever bother him.
I do not like that old sad man
I do not like green eggs and ham.
George Harley
Mount Isa
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People commented on our front page story from Thursday introducing the five candidates declared so far for Traeger: “Pick one from five”
Dan Blundstone Great Scott! Katter will get it for sure! So others can put their hands down
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Valmai O'Brien a Cloncurry candidate and wouldn't have the faintest idea who it is
Susan May The one and only Katter all the way.. who are the ringins?
Gary Osman yes Robbie Katter proven track record of working hard getting things done takes fight right up to government and truly gets out to his whole electorate even just to see 2 or 4 people . Robbie Katter stands up for his electorate
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