Sunday, October 9th, 2022 |
While the trip appears to be under aegis of the greatest rort ever foisted on ratepayers … the Sister City free holiday program for councillors’ … it was very timely for Kim Il Jen, sloping off just as that ratepayers learn they’ve copped another financial kick in the cods courtesy of this financially illiterate simkin…. View full story »
Sunday, October 2nd, 2022 |
Pork barrelling is making biased funding promises that are mostly kept …. talk barrelling is making promises that never will be. Premier Alphabet’s sudden foray into talk barrelling about a ‘world class hydro initiative’ is a coded message that should alarm anyone living north of Nambour. It’s been quite a week for our schizo mayor… View full story »
Sunday, September 25th, 2022 |
If the go-getting positive comments from the new incoming Chamber CEO are anything to go by, TEL will be looking even more shaky in its annual ratepayer robbery. Pipe dreams shattered … we have a strange way of looking at things sometimes. Why any push for a republic faces a rocky road in the medium… View full story »
Sunday, September 18th, 2022 |
A close cousin to ‘hyperventilation’, hypervirtulation is also caused by anxiety or panic when on fears they are quick enough to claim the high moral ground. The NRL this week was the perfect example of our new word. At last, Mayor Mullet acknowledges The Magpie and Nesters… well, not by name, but we know who… View full story »
Sunday, September 11th, 2022 |
Our perfumed purveyor of porkies is at it again … and she now gives us the choice of deciding either she is dopey, or whether she just thinks we are. Same goes for the Townsville Bulletin when it gave prominence to her demented gurgling’s about Townsville’s Riverway Stadium becoming Cricket Queensland ‘s premier ground during… View full story »
Sunday, September 4th, 2022 |
The paper’s coverage of three major stories this week offer irrefutable proof that the Townsville Bulletin is now just painting by numbers. They are either so compromised or so incompetent as to be totally irrelevant to this community (unless you are into sick kids, dead accident victims, and cute animals.). Mayor Mullet versus the Flying… View full story »
Sunday, August 28th, 2022 |
Emerging revelations that the Ville Casino had entertained banned and bribed high rollers has put the Bulletin in a bind … will they report the allegations about one of their major advertisers with a straight bat, or go into spin mode … or even ignore it altogether? The latter is unlikely, and the two other… View full story »
Sunday, August 21st, 2022 |
There’s an old obscure saying ‘He’s so far up himself, he could whistle in stereo.’ Harpic’s vaulting self-regard and short memory cement his rep as a preening cockalorum, unfit for office. The Magpie jogs his memory. But it’s our former PM who has provided the comedy gold for the week. … but he won’t be… View full story »
Sunday, August 14th, 2022 |
… and so far, nothing else. Bugger all about substance. That’s why the right opinion about the indigenous voice proposition is … no opinion. But according to one boofademic, even just wanting to know what’s involved makes The Magpie a redneck and racist. We examine the idiocy on both sides. Mayor Mullet’s whacky scheme for… View full story »
Sunday, August 7th, 2022 |
Isn’t there always? The Magpie reports. In the bitchy world of fragile egos we call academia, rarely heard is the word sorry … so Professor Peter Ridd better not get his hopes up about being proved partially right about the Great Barrier Reef not being dead, or even near it. More info wars: actually, that… View full story »