Patrick Lion | Journalist
Patrick Lion
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25.01.2022 Cocking a snook: The most common name for the gesture formed by holding the thumb to the tip of the nose and spreading the fingers. Sometimes varied by waggling the fingers.
24.01.2022 The battle over a proposed stake in Virgin Airlines is at fever pitch. The LNP says the $200 million investment would be a waste of taxpayer money. Labor says t...hreats to scuttle the proposal risk the head office going interstate. The Treasurer has four days to clinch a deal. www.7NEWS.com.au #qldpol #7NEWS
23.01.2022 Although the House has adjourned, there’s still plenty happening on the Parliamentary precinct such as press conferences on the Speaker’s Green! Located in th...e centre of the Parliamentary precinct, the Speaker’s Green can regularly be seen in the background of interviews and press conferences on tv See more
22.01.2022 Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk MP has backed her Sports Minister, despite growing calls for him to be sacked over claims of pork barrelling. Mick de Brenni for S...pringwood was today under fire after an audit found sports grants he awarded favoured Labor seats. www.7NEWS.com.au #qldpol #7NEWS
22.01.2022 The election race is heating up, with Queensland Labor and the LNP - Liberal National Party squaring off over how to fund their promises. Deb Frecklington MP pr...omised to build driver reviver stops along her Bruce Highway upgrade, as Annastacia Palaszczuk MP opened a new counter-terrorism training centre. www.7NEWS.com.au #qldpol #7NEWS
20.01.2022 A scathing independent report has slammed the Palaszczuk Government's bungled attempt to launch a new hospital purchasing system and revealed another cost blowo...ut. It comes as the state's biggest hospital was issued a please explain over the treatment of a mental health patient. More: 7news.link/3kGu6GG #qldpol #7NEWS
19.01.2022 Broadwater MP David Crisafulli elected new LNP leader unopposed. Toowoomba South MP David Janetzki is deputy.
17.01.2022 The Premier is resisting calls to apologise over the corruption watchdog's scathing report into the conduct of her office. Annastacia Palaszczuk says she feels let down by her former chief-of-staff, but wouldn't be drawn on her own failure. www.7NEWS.com.au #7NEWS
17.01.2022 Labor’s opening pitch.
15.01.2022 QLD Election: It's an election race that will last more than three weeks and it's expected to produce a tight finish, with experts unable to predict a winner. ...It will only take a handful of seats to swap hands to change the government. An analysis on which are most likely to fall. www.7NEWS.com.au #qldpol #qldvotes #7NEWS
15.01.2022 Queensland's new Assistant Tourism Minister has been linked to a growing controversy over a north Queensland aquarium. 7NEWS can reveal Michael Healy knew about... a political donation it made to the Labor Party, after being given a taxpayer-funded emergency Covid grant. www.7NEWS.com.au #qldpol #7NEWS
10.01.2022 Queensland Premier’s new cabinet line-up revealed.
06.01.2022 The top bureaucrat slammed over the Jackie Trad school principal saga has pocketed $100,000 to sit at home suspended for seven months.The taxpayer bill emerged during Estimates as the Opposition accused Labor MPs of running a protection rackets for ministers. www.7NEWS.com.au #7NEWS
06.01.2022 David Crisafulli - Broadwater MP has been elected Opposition Leader unopposed. He's promised voters that "the fire still burns" despite the LNP's reduced numbers. www.7NEWS.com.au #qldpol #7NEWS
06.01.2022 Labor and the LNP are appealing to voters to back them to ensure certainty during the pandemic. Annastacia Palaszczuk and Deb Frecklington today ruled out crossbench deals if there is a hung parliament. www.7NEWS.com.au #qldpol #7NEWS
06.01.2022 A former Labor minister has quit the party to run against the Palaszczuk Government MP she helped get elected. Margaret Keech says Labor favours inner-city gree...n voters over the working class, and only listens to factional powers. But the ALP has hit back. www.7NEWS.com.au #qldpol #7NEWS
04.01.2022 Deb Frecklington has been targeted over how she will fund her massive promise to upgrade the Bruce Highway. Labor today revealed Canberra rejected calls for extra funding for the road last year. www.7NEWS.com.au #qldpol #7NEWS
04.01.2022 The Premier has revealed her new Cabinet after visiting the Governor today, to officially form government. www.7NEWS.com.au #7NEWS
03.01.2022 David Crisafulli - Broadwater MP is the LNP's new leader, elected unopposed, and promising voters "the fire burns", despite his party's shrinking presence. By c...ontrast, the Premier's cabinet is swelling with plum new roles, costing taxpayers an extra $250,000 a year. www.7NEWS.com.au #7NEWS
03.01.2022 QLD Election: Queensland's official election campaign begins. Both leaders agree your vote is about the pandemic. But both had different arguments in their opening sales pitches to voters. www.7NEWS.com.au #qldpol #qldvotes #7NEWS
02.01.2022 It's a practice the Premier banned. Ministers using private email for Government work, hiding correspondence from the public. Now there are claims she was emailed from the same "mangocube" account that led to the crackdown. www.7NEWS.com.au #7NEWS
02.01.2022 The Palaszczuk Government has been accused of a cover-up over the bombshell email allegedly sent to the Premier's private email account. In raucous scenes in Pa...rliament, a Labor MP refused to allow the Transport Minister to answer the simple question, did he send the email? www.7NEWS.com.au #qldpol #7NEWS
01.01.2022 The circus begins.
