Sunday, October 17th, 2021 |
Townsville arts mavens paddle the old bird over his positive remarks on Jennifer Bott’s Concert Hall Report. So much so, your correspondent this week is a Humble ‘Pie. BTW that ‘confidential’ report was somehow left up on the council website, but after it was published here last week, it has now disappeared. Just how deeply… View full story »
Saturday, October 9th, 2021 |
… and it won’t cost a penny, just a bit of time … like maybe 100 years. Bob Katter’s outrageous slur against a revered Townsville organisation … but they fire back. None of this very surprising, because it was a vintage week for bollocks… the Bulletin grew some, a politician is sore need was presented… View full story »
Sunday, October 3rd, 2021 |
It’s been a bad week for Mayor Mullet, with federal MP Phil Thompson beating her to the punch with a swift one-two in their on-going political punch up, stealing her thunder twice. So perhaps she was still a bit concussed when she made an off-the-cuff statement that should have every Townsville ratepayer buttock-clenching in alarm…. View full story »
Sunday, September 26th, 2021 |
Joining the dots is not the forte of our hard-hitting fearless investigative stenographers at the Bulletin, even when there are two curiously linked media releases sitting side by side in front of them. Two separate stories in the Astonisher this week begged for linkage and some very serious inquiry, but no, all too hard. But… View full story »
Sunday, September 19th, 2021 |
As a pointless exercise, there is evidence the council’s Future Cities department puts even TEL to shame. An insider lets fly at the deeply flawed program … and says a few other things you won’t read in the Astonisher. And Clr Fran O’Callaghan weighs in with a couple of interesting points from council minutes …… View full story »
Saturday, September 11th, 2021 |
This week showed why Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) should be immediately mandated for this ratepayer-funded money sinkhole. Oh, no, are we about to suffer a bout of deja-moo – that’s when we feel we’ve heard this bullshit before. Anna for Canberra? She seems to think so, given her. performance during the week. The Magpie has… View full story »
Sunday, September 5th, 2021 |
Led by the trio of CHO Jeanette Young, the hucksters of the unicorn battery factory and our own beloved Bulletin iditor, we were again befuddled by twisted talking. And this isn’t a whinge about a missed comma or a dangling participle; in all three instances, very real consequences could result. There was a lot of… View full story »
Saturday, August 28th, 2021 |
Should we be concerned about quarantine facility built and operated by Queensland taxpayers, in one of the most inappropriate sites imaginable – and with no guarantee of fly-in customers? And we’re not allowed to know how much it cost? Premier Alphabet goes all Joh on us. Magpie exclusive: why no one in jail in Queensland… View full story »
Sunday, August 22nd, 2021 |
All three led a discovery tour down a rabbit hole into some sort of parallel universe. Magistrate Ross Mack played Humpty Dumpty, Mayor Jenny Hill The White King, and Astonisher iditor Craig Warhurst suddenly morphed in the Mock Turtle. All that to one side, mysterious things happen on our roads every day … one such… View full story »
Saturday, August 14th, 2021 |
Jonathan McBurnie has resigned as boss of the Perc Tucker Gallery, and will, among future positions, join the remote teaching staff of Sydney University. The council’s hillbilly arts policy has claimed another victim – not that McBurnie says so – but The Magpie does. Benchmark: the Townsville Council’s Red Bench program has The Magpie seeing… View full story »