Sunday, October 13th, 2019 |
Mr Stewart may well be the state parliament’s deputy speaker, but all the signs are there that this once respected school principal and educator just isn’t up to being a politician … and he knows it. The Magpie has an exclusive report on the signs of a meltdown … A few more polite questions for… View full story »
Sunday, October 6th, 2019 |
In a classic, text book case of turning adversity to advantage, Mayor Mullet’s minders (its way too clever for her alone) have come up with a doozy – the new Belcarra laws as a re-election campaign weapon. The Magpie dives in behind the scenes to explain the creation of the Belcarra Bludgeon. But while all… View full story »
Sunday, September 29th, 2019 |
Rockhampton’s mayor Margaret Strelow stole a march on our own secretive Kim Il Jen in a clever political manoeuvre regarding what is looking more and more like a very damaging document about the Adani airstrip. Mayor Mullet must be spitting chips and so too Townsville ratepayers watching their dollars flow into legal pockets, while Rocky… View full story »
Sunday, September 22nd, 2019 |
That would be an A-dani bomb, and could expose the biggest cover-up since Gina Rinehart went kaftan shopping. One of the most senior legal officials in Queensland, Louisa Lynch, the Right To information Commissioner, has ordered the mayor to release the tightly guarded secret document detailing the deal with Adani for funding an airstrip we… View full story »
Sunday, September 15th, 2019 |
(Please note: Due to a Saturday night surfeit of AFL, NRL and cricket, the final subbing and amendments to this blog were done at 8am Sunday morning (yawn).) Crikey, even the Bulletin thinks so, with the news that the widely criticised $350,000 contract with pretty boy knucklehead Jamie Durie has been farmed out to a… View full story »
Sunday, September 8th, 2019 |
Well, if the Astonisher is to be believed (always a question), our mayor said her colleagues were ‘shitting themselves’ over the Belcarra political donation reforms… only problem is, she said no such thing (although they probably are). Enjoy a rare moment when The Magpie goes in to bat for our mayor. Premier Alphabet brings her… View full story »
Sunday, September 1st, 2019 |
And from under Townsville, too, with some more unwelcome and totally unnecessary negative publicity. Of all the ill-advised things this ill-advised woman has done, you’d have to think attacking the humanity of charity organisations would be way up there, at the very top of a long, long list of ill-advised public attempts at vote catching…. View full story »
Sunday, August 25th, 2019 |
… more likely crapping themselves, because they have some very difficult questions to answer about why they hired the man they say mis-used company credit cards to such a pivotal role for our city’s progress.Michael McMillan was a known tax dodging failed businessman from Rockhampton. Could this be the bottom-of-the-deck issue that brings down… View full story »
Sunday, August 18th, 2019 |
Our deputy mayor adds insult to ignorance with his wibbling idiocy about Strand developments being ‘the gift that keeps on giving’.… and the Daily Astonisher’s gurgling agreement fails to see the looming disaster. Mega-garbos Cleanaway have all but admitted it’s been cleaning up on increases to customer charges. They have been caught red handed using… View full story »
Sunday, August 11th, 2019 |
In one of the more arrogant bits of business we’ve come across, a local Cleanaway executive tells a shocked client ‘take it leave it’, in a piece of damaging corporate bullying and bastardry which has now got the southern bosses intervening. Dizzy Aaron Harper visits the planet to make a mysterious FB post … one… View full story »