IT'S time to finally come out of the closet. I miss Joh Bjelke-Petersen. And in case the other side of politics feels left out, I miss Tommy Burns as well. At least in those days what you saw was what you got. And when it came to elections, unless there

Sir Gordon Chalk was the first Queensland premier drawn from the ranks of the modern Liberal Party. He is the only one so far and spent a short time at the top, lasting just one week. Sir Gordon was sworn in on August 1, 1968 after the sudden death of Pr

The sky's the limit for Gina Rinehart's fortunes, writes Leonie Lamont. It was 20 years ago that the mining magnate Lang Hancock's widow, Rose, summoned journalists to the gate of her flamboyant mansion, and dispensed copies of her recently departed husb

IT IS 20 years since mining magnate Lang Hancock's widow, Rose, summoned journalists to the gate of her flamboyant mansion, and dispensed copies of her recently departed husband's will. It was 1992, the year that both Hancock's daughter, Gina Rinehart -

IT IS 20 years since mining magnate Lang Hancock's widow, Rose, summoned journalists to the gate of her flamboyant mansion, and dispensed copies of her recently departed husband's will. It was 1992, the year that both Hancock's daughter, Gina Rinehart -

Gina Rinehart is likely to find investing in Fairfax Media a deeply frustrating experience, whether she’s trying to influence the newspapers or just make money. Like her father Lang Hancock, Rinehart is not a portfolio investor looking to invest her iron