Sunday, October 11th, 2020 |
Is the introduction of those orange e-scooters a tragedy waiting to happen? It appears that this whole idea was not thought through at all , and is already proving to be a dangerous dog’s dinner of an idea. And the public need an explanation from the council about what safeguards, if any, they have insisted… View full story »
Sunday, October 4th, 2020 |
All legitimate questions. Look, you just gotta hand it to him …. Just when you think this mobster president is cornered for good, has this Houdini from the dark side entertained us with another miracle escape? Surely not an unreasonable but polite question when dealing with the master of crying wolf? Also, THAT debate: the… View full story »
Sunday, September 27th, 2020 |
Mooney calls Pisasale’s humbling words a wake-up call. Trivia question: what does the Towensville Bulletin have in common with Donald Trump? Answer: when you think neither one can go any lower, both actually manage to. In the Bulletin’s case, it is one of the most juvenile and irresponsible ‘spite’ attacks worthy of Facebook at its… View full story »
Sunday, September 20th, 2020 |
And adding financial injury to insult, using ratepayers money for this totally useless, dishonest, lefty/Labor consultant’s wet dream of a box ticking farrago. It is an ethically criminal use of public money. We’ve been had, yet again. On the state stage, Anna Alphabet is under the gun also for using public money for private polls… View full story »
Saturday, September 12th, 2020 |
No need to be clever about this, she actually said so herself in exactly those words: ‘I don’t make the decisions.’ And so she surrenders not just her elected authority, but her right to any credibility in the future. The Magpie looks at how the pandemic has become just one big campaign gamble in the… View full story »
Sunday, September 6th, 2020 |
When a bullying judge makes it personal in court, quite often the innocent victims of the bile are litigants and defendants who just unwittingly chose a legal team with whom the judge has a personal score to settle. But when it comes to disciplining the errant beak, the judicial crowd is as bad as the… View full story »
Sunday, August 30th, 2020 |
This week, whether through naivety or mendacity, the Bulletin was either dumb or deceitful when it applauded unnamed police officers for using corrupt practices, for blatant political activism … Off with the fairies: former federal MP Cathy O’Toole’s personal dreamtime … The Great COVID Con: how the media exploitation of ‘fear porn’ has completely derailed… View full story »
Sunday, August 23rd, 2020 |
It has been galling to watch politicians and their scapegoats transmute genuine virus control concerns into a campaign tool by a premier taking a desperate gamble. She’s betting the electorate will see her unnecessarily elongated actions as a maternal caring for Queenslanders. It’s a gamble is increasing looking like a bad bet … but then… View full story »
Saturday, August 15th, 2020 |
It’s not just the chopping, changing and reallocation of sites and projects, but there is no clear indication to the public who has been leading this city in the last decade. The past week has highlighted the dog’s dinner ‘vision thing.’ Conflict of interest anyone? Townsville Airport’s Kevin Gill pleads – again – for public… View full story »
Sunday, August 9th, 2020 |
… but about par for the course. Seriously, what is up with the editorial management of this paper? The Magpie counts the ways revealed in just a single week. The Magpie offers a very special treat for this week’s readers … all three of the British investigative doco series on Rupert Murdoch, which no lily-livered… View full story »