QUEENSLAND'S corruption crisis ensnared the Liberal National Party Opposition yesterday, with claims of doctored emails and MPs moonlightingas lobbyists.

THE Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has told his backbenchers to hold their nerve over Labor's emissions trading scheme amid internal concerns about its impact on jobs and intense lobbying by interest groups.

NEWCASTLE'S show holiday has local government backing for 2009, despite lobbying from business quarters to have the day off scrapped.

A TEAM of independent councillors wants Newcastle's show holiday scrapped and is lobbying to end the day off from next year.

HOW exactly does Barack Obama plan to keep the jackals of the lobbying industry at bay in a town like Washington where every second person is a lobbyist?