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Saturday, July 26th, 2014 | 41 comments

Could Mayor Mullet be about to be handed a second term on a platter? Looks very possible.

Yes, the ghosts of elections past look set to come back to haunt us. On the national scene, Tasmania, long famous for its scallops, now looks like being noted for it trollops … well at least one. Accidental senator Jacqui Lambie earns Headline of the Week … Here in the ‘Ville, The ‘Pie reports on… View full story »

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014 | 29 comments

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine … but ‘paradise enow’? Come off it, stop the juvenile justification as to why we live here.

Local ABC waffler Pat ‘Chaff Bag’ Hession once railed against the tiresome, cringing phrase ‘coming of age’ (COA) in relation to some latest development in Townsville (laughably, the buzzy, beaut little City Lane development garnered the ‘coming of age’ soubriquet, but with the proviso that the city would only be be all grown up if… View full story »

Saturday, July 19th, 2014 | 19 comments

In a ‘what were they thinking’ week, it’s been a race to the bottom in terms of taste and judgement all over the place.

The worst column of the week goes to … well, you’ll never guess who’s giving the Astonisher stable a run for its money. And the paper offers front-page proof that they will, as the old saying goes, ‘never f-ck up a story with facts’, with what is claimed to be a blatant front page lie… View full story »

Saturday, July 12th, 2014 | 97 comments

A ‘dinosaur’ returns – Senator Macca Macdonald goes rogue again with a controversial staff appointment of a man previously sacked from the position by the Prime Minister himself.

We also learn just how our mayor has come to be under the Crime and Corruption Committee microscope, the best headlines of the week, and a video of simply the smartest and most telling way to get a safety message across to blase been-there-done-that people – it’s truly brilliant. But first. The ‘Pie has been… View full story »

Saturday, July 5th, 2014 | 53 comments

The hunt is on: who dobbed Mayor Mullet into the Crime and Corruption Commission – apart from her own silly self? Clue: it wasn’t Townsville First.

That is just one issue in a week for which the theme song has been Ricky Van Shelton’s ‘Somebody Lied’ including The Astonisher, an Astonisher reporter and – ahem – The Magpie himself. The Brazen Bluff of the Week for Ingratitude goes to a spokesman for powerboaters, who won’t be getting a job in… View full story »

Tuesday, July 1st, 2014 | 9 comments

Clive Palmer to host ABCTV Quiz Show?

EXCLUSIVE: The Magpie has hacked a secret email exchange beween Prime Minister Tony Abbott and a senior executive in the Australian Broadcasting Commission. The snoops were quick to intervene, and The ‘Pie could only make a copy of the ABC’s reply, which, at whatever risk to personal freedom, The Magpie feels duty bound to now… View full story »