Saturday, December 17th, 2016 |
This has the potential to turn into a very nasty episode if authorities try for the arse covering option. The ‘Pie reports. In other matters, the pressure mounts on Sam Cox to run against Coralee O’Rourke, despite being dumped by the LNP … he’s thinking about it … ‘All efforts to give support local business… View full story »
Saturday, December 10th, 2016 |
What’s the Hindi for ‘yokel’? We are being played for suckers … the Indians must be laughing up the sleeves of their khadis at the gullibility and desperation of the Queensland yokels. Digital dilemma … Ben Bogan takes his begging bowl out to the public. As Effie always said ‘How embarrassment!’ Front page of the… View full story »
Saturday, December 3rd, 2016 |
Like Stephen Leacock’s famous anti-hero, the Astonisher has ‘flung itself, from the room, flung itself upon its horse, and rode madly off in all directions’. It’s been a monumental week of things that MIGHT happen. The pathos is palpable. Blood on the bench? Is Mike Capt Snooze Reynolds about to become a proud hubby. The… View full story »
Saturday, November 26th, 2016 |
Of drones, dingbats and drivel … a single story in The Daily Astonisher aka the Bulletin encapsulates the city’s underlying problem – lying being the operative part … The American Great Divide continues in the US …. How a much-loved charity mascot in Britain made a right dick of himself … … and The Astonisher… View full story »
Saturday, November 19th, 2016 |
Why the ‘Elite Few’ have got Townsville by the balls … and you don’t even know some of those who are doing the squeezing. But The Magpie beaks around … and joins some unsettling dots for you. Also in this week’s Nest … the comedy of Astonisher iditor Ben Bogan English but no one was… View full story »
Saturday, November 12th, 2016 |
The concern that prompted American voters to install a maverick in the White House has a lesson in it for the ruling cabal in Townsville … and it ain’t reassuring. And as the classic punchline says, that’s a funny way to fly an aeroplane … the LNP dithers and blathers … and factional in-fighting denies… View full story »
Saturday, November 5th, 2016 |
Bedrock northern support and its attendant money is fleeing the LNP faster than arts patrons are fleeing the Perc Tucker Gallery … both scenarios make little or no sense … The Magpie updates on both. Meanwhile, Kid Crisafulli is lurking in the wings. Adding insult to injury – not only are the latest Astonisher readership… View full story »
Saturday, October 29th, 2016 |
And the cause of the exodus – the Nous Consulting Group Council restructuring Report – has been forensically and clinically demolished – by its own words. The Townsville City Council has hastily brought forward to Monday the first Arts and Culture Advisory Committee (ACAC) meeting, which had not been due until later this year. This follows… View full story »
Saturday, October 22nd, 2016 |
Could be if The ‘Pie’s information is correct (which he believes it is) … information that also suggests an irresponsible political cover-up putting pre-school kids in grave danger. Also, Labor’s Cunning Plan: Why Labor Is Back In Charge Of Townsville – By Stealth. On the Trump trail as the weirdness continues apace … And why… View full story »
Saturday, October 15th, 2016 |
Seems remaining TCC staff have no one to answer to or be directed by. And the wholesale sackings this week are just the start of a politically motivated purge that will poison the Walker Street well for at least the next two years. That’s Mayor Mullet’s declared time frame for further signalled sackings, on top… View full story »