This week in our Queensland public sector column, Public Circus considers curly questions for the (acting) prisons boss, Health hot-desking, and a new mega commission green-light.

The ABC’s news boss is staring down the barrel of a staff revolt after threatening a senior journalist with disciplinary action.

Emma Walters, a former industrial lawyer and estranged wife of former union boss John Setka, has made a rare public appearance at an inquiry now facing calls for further powers.

The head of the CFMEU inquiry has questioned why contractors allowed an “army of delegates” to leave their sites to attend a blockade.

After evidence from several witnesses about a Brisbane site brawl, a senior manager’s memory lapses have irked the head of Queensland’s CFMEU investigation.

This week in our Queensland public sector column, Public Circus uncovers quiet QCAT appointments, human rights review details, and lobbying register revelations.

After a relatively quiet start in the role, Queensland’s rights watchdog has taken its first major swing at the Crisafulli government over changes to bail laws.

Premier David Crisafulli told state parliament the AI giant has signed a deal to build Australia’s largest data centre here in Queensland. Follow our live coverage.

The laws would prohibit objections from anyone living more than 125km away from a mining project, while also limiting the grounds for challenges.

With last week’s credit rating downgrade, budget management will be a major topic as MPs return to parliament. Follow our live coverage.

This week in our Queensland public sector column, Public Circus delivers a Working for Queensland update, more “vacancy management”, and a senior teacher pay saga.

A Brisbane Times’ Right to Information request has found no progress reports to Amanda Camm from the group established last May to monitor 355 recommendations.

The 4.75 per cent boost to awards will flow to some workers who weren’t in line for a pay rise this year, putting even more pressure on the LNP’s budget.

While reiterating his belief such a move was inevitable after the former government’s actions, Treasurer David Janetzki has conceded he could have done more.

The Crisafulli LNP’s controversial “breach bail, go to jail” bill has seen a flood of more than 250 submissions, many raising serious concern about its impacts.

Queensland’s richest man, a serial election contender, has complicated ties to the LNP. That hasn’t stopped him getting an audience with David Crisafulli.

Queensland’s richest man, a serial election contender, has complicated ties to the LNP. That hasn’t stopped him getting an audience with David Crisafulli.

This week in our Queensland public sector column, Public Circus ponders the protection commission, auditor efficiencies, and a philanthropist whisperer search.

A Queensland politician shared a recent win – he’d had a public bench removed to deter anti-social behaviour. But the response was not so happy.

MPs are back on George Street for the final sitting day of the week, after a late night which saw the passage of a controversial expansion of government powers.

Debate late on Tuesday strayed into questions of police legal costs in a Cairns extortion case court gag, with MPs set to return from early Wednesday afternoon.

MPs have descended on George Street for the first regular sitting week since the budget, with several controversial bills up for debate or introduction.

This week in our Queensland public sector column, Public Circus returns to the Redlands, tunes into an informative watchdog hearing, and catches news of plum gigs.

When eligible terminally ill Queenslanders gained legal access to drugs to end their own lives in 2023, a timer in the laws began. It went-off in January.

Queensland’s deputy premier says while an alleged 2024 bikie standover plot implicating the contractor was wrong, it showed business ‘desperation’ with the CFMEU.

Almost half of respondents in polling for this masthead rated the state government’s performance on housing as poor – and youth crime wasn’t far behind.

Queensland hearings into the union and construction sector have this week probed the involvement of bikie figures in the state – and links to a major contractor.

As the halfway point in the election cycle approaches, a new poll shows government support lifting, while One Nation dips back below Labor.

This week in our Queensland public sector column, Public Circus reveals a case for democratic improvement and a lonely bitcoin-er as school pay talks loom, and more.

This week in our Queensland public sector column, Public Circus features the Fraine Train, external recruitment allergies, Core bargaining and coffee machines.

Labor, Katter’s Australian Party, legal experts and farming bodies are among those raising reservations about whether the powers are needed, and how to safeguard their use.

Public Sector Commissioner David Mackie will be Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie’s new department chief.

In a testy response to this masthead’s reporting on his role in the billionaire’s LNP dealings, the deputy premier pushed back against her portrayal of one event.