Saturday, December 25th, 2021 |
… and now only refers to a few brief of items of bah humbuggery from the week. First up, a question from the week … Are You Now ‘Check-In Hesitant’? The Magpie 8,675 approved email hidden; JavaScript is required The Risk versus Reward idiocy of the Palaszczuk Government. Brett Lethbridge in the Courier Mail. The… View full story »
Saturday, December 18th, 2021 |
The cliché that something should be avoided like the plague is well and truly out the window, given the lengths some go to NOT avoid this plague. Concise information and guidelines are lacking, but it’s clear a no lock-down Christmas is a political, not a medical decision. And likely to be temporary. Bad timing last… View full story »
Sunday, December 12th, 2021 |
And bleating. In the past few days, we’ve been inundated with media releases, faithfully reproduced in the Bulletin, all orchestrated by Spinning Jenny, telling us what a bright golden future awaits us under her wise stewardship. The Magpie casts a jaundiced eye. Watch out, Molachino, looks like Clr Potty Mouth could… View full story »
Saturday, December 4th, 2021 |
Jenny’s F Troop leadership at it brilliant best … now we’ve got a drug dealer involved with her pin up boy!!! So the Magnis unicorn battery factory at the Hub in the Scrub looks likely to join the Adani Airstrip, the ‘impossible’ $2million coffee shop on Castle Hill and the now-not-the-right-time ‘light forest’ walkway to… View full story »
Saturday, November 27th, 2021 |
Jenny Hill’s attack chihuahua goes all weird and rabid in a sledge against Clr Fran O’Callaghan, a slur she later tried to scramble away from. Just the weirdest moment during the latest disgraceful council meeting in the Walker Street Hermit Kingdom … … which a Bulletin headline gets it totally wrong. Our mayor’s BFF turns… View full story »
Saturday, November 20th, 2021 |
… and it may be the Frankie and Jenny love story of a sort, but no sex involved that we know of. The heat is being piled on Magnis Energy boss Frank Poullas, our mayor’s BFF, and he is being given the big side-eye by financial regulators for suspect share manipulation. So should we be… View full story »
Saturday, November 13th, 2021 |
… Mostafa Baluch, Australia’s most wanted drug czar – his face is red and his arse is grass. His capture at the Queensland/NSW border has brought a wave of delight into the mostly grim daily news cycle. The nation is still laughing. As Nino Cullotta said, we’re a weird mob – we hit the streets… View full story »
Sunday, November 7th, 2021 |
JT wanted to keep it all hush hush, but sorry, mate, The Magpie outs you. The Bulletin makes a mistake … and then makes a mistake correcting the mistake. (But given The ‘Pie’s track record with errors, he is hesitant warble too loudly.) From the Unfunny Department, our mayor tells ratepayers they knew they were… View full story »
Sunday, October 31st, 2021 |
You’d perhaps think so when you riffled through the latest manufactured nonsense about Townsville alleged top 20 power couples who, the paper infers, influence our daily lives. … whatever that actually means. In a tarted up social pages photo gallery wank, cringe intermingles with misinformation and unintended hilarity. The Magpie therefore offers his own ‘Influence… View full story »
Sunday, October 24th, 2021 |
Republican proto-fascist slimester Senator Ted Cruz decided to join the currently fashionable pile-on about Australia’s enforcement of its successful COVID strategy. But he sure picked the wrong target … they don’t fuck around with fancy diplomacy in the Top End, and NT Chief Minister Michael Gunner delivered a swift kick to the Cruz Khyber. The… View full story »