Saturday, October 21st, 2017 |
That petition calling on Mayor Mullet to rescind the $18.5million council gift to Adani for a mine-site airstrip takes on a life of its own outside Townsville … but not in the Townsville Bulletin. The numbers have been ticking over faster than Gina Rinehart’s calorie counter, more than 40,000 people have signed up. But has… View full story »
Saturday, October 14th, 2017 |
Adani Airlines looks like being grounded … and it looks like Mayor Mullet will be too when the time comes. Put simply, Jenny Hill has behaved like Donald Trump writ small. A momentous week in the ‘Ville, with one single issue overriding all else … that secretive council decision to gift Guatum Adani $18.5million of ratepayer… View full story »
Saturday, October 7th, 2017 |
With ratepayers money. Seriously, has she lost the plot? Or misread the mood? Or simply thought she could get away with it? jenny Hill’s planned investment of $18.5million of ratepayer money in a bush airport for the Adani mine has Townsville in uproar. Some are asking if it amounts to corruption? The ‘Pie reports on this… View full story »
Saturday, September 30th, 2017 |
He lasted 18 agonising months, but Ben ‘Bogan’ English really earned his spurs for his next job … kissing the arse of Gold Coast mayor Tom Tate, who has even more say in the paper down there than Mayor Mullet does up here. The Magpie looks at the Bogan Legacy. Is Mayor Mullet about to… View full story »
Sunday, September 24th, 2017 |
Did JCU’s Vice-Chacellor Sandra Harding turn a blind eye to a worsening sexual culture at the uni? Or did she just not know? Either way, it’s not what you would expect from a million-dollar-a-year supremo of academe. In a week when the AFL ruffled feathers promoting the Same Sex Marriage Yes vote, one Aussie Rules… View full story »
Saturday, September 16th, 2017 |
It’s exclusive because you sure as hell won’t read it in the Townsville Bulletin. Put simply, Gill and his southern bosses have just lost an (albeit legal) out-and-out rort worth tens of thousands. Also this week … can you sum up Townsville in a single appropriate word? The ‘Pie can, and does. The old bird’s life-long… View full story »
Saturday, September 9th, 2017 |
A perfect CEO, a well respected old Townsville hand, is believed to be ready and willing to step in to right the Walker Street ship, but it’s an unlikely appointment while Mayor Mullet remains determined to steer us on to the rocks. The ‘Pie lets you be the judge. But, wait … do we have… View full story »
Saturday, September 2nd, 2017 |
Our hayseed image projected Mayor Mullet could not have been more complete if she appeared nationally in bib’n’braces carrying a banjo. Or on the front of the local paper promoting a darts tournament she has nothing to do with. What on earth did this truly ignorant and vicious woman expect when she calls for a… View full story »
Sunday, August 27th, 2017 |
Yes, Gill and iditor Ben English continue to try to dip Queensland Airport’s corporate hand into the community’s pocket, as they ramp up their anti-Townsville campaign. And in the process, the Astonisher gets the Pot/Kettle Award of the Week for its unintentionally hilarious front page on the issue. Should we do a Charlottesville and tear… View full story »
Saturday, August 19th, 2017 |
But maybe The ‘Pie will only have to face the B team in the form of Vanesa Gleeson (Typo’s missus), because Foghorn Bazza may have to withdraw from the case since we might call him as a witness. Lacking a case – or guts – himself , he has put poor old Rabieh Krayem up… View full story »