Saturday, April 30th, 2016 |
It seems Jenny Hill’s dogged determination to follow her own economic disaster plan has now cranked into life, and there’s plenty of anxious buttock-clenching going on among council staff. With an election arising, Stadia-mania returns to the Astonisher in spades, but fiscal reality remains unexamined And a story about pumpkins … one of them has… View full story »
Saturday, April 23rd, 2016 |
The hitherto ‘secret’ KPMG feasibility study of a CBD football stadium, is now available for all (well, at the time of writing). All 300 pages of it. But The ‘Pie also has a plain language summary of all the gory details from an economic guru. New realities call for new words … so what condition… View full story »
Saturday, April 16th, 2016 |
The basketball side’s demise was predictable and inevitable, but now that it’s happened, we have a real game changer on our hands. The Crocs were propping up a crumbling Entertainment Centre with a dribble of income, but now, the focus … and emphasis … must shift to the wider horizon. The ‘Pie pontificates. Dreaming the… View full story »
Saturday, April 9th, 2016 |
Yep, The Townsville Bulletin has made it official … everything from life expectancy, smoking rates to being fat or becoming a crim, God knows, having an ingrown toenail is SOMEBODY ELSE’S FAULT. But there’s something else afoot for the paper to be whipping up this inane hysteria. The Magpie beaks around. Also, going through the… View full story »
Saturday, April 2nd, 2016 |
So the cupboard is as bare as this –The Magpie examines a dismal, dispiriting week at the Astonisher. On the federal scene, from Malcolm Turnbull to Malcolm Talkbull … he’s now looking good only by comparison … to both Abbott and Shorten. We pay tribute to the pint-sized giant of comedy Ronnie Corbett, who died… View full story »