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• ▼ 2024 (47)
  • ▼ November (3)
    • Lies, Damned Lies And Polls: The Kattertonics Try To Pull A Swifty.
    • America's Decline By The Numbers: From 9/11 to 5/11 With January 6 In Between.
    • David's Dilemma: Miles Parting Gift Of Troy Thompson Leaves The Kid In A Prickly No-Win Situation
  • ► October (4)
    • Across The City, All Townsville's Singin' The Blues This Morning - Some Boisterously, Some Bitterly.
    • Council As Kindergarten For Our Work Experience Mayor: "I Make Mistakes, I'm Learning On The Job'. Oh, Fucking Great, Mate.
    • As Predicted - Strand Parking Meters Are No Longer On The Council Agenda - Or Are They?
    • 'Sez You!!!" In Just Two Words, Clr Liam Mooney Sums Up Our Distrust Our Ersatz Mayor
  • ► September (4)
    • Going, Going, and .... Gone? Whatever Miles Decides, Conman The Barbarian Has Won.
    • Welcome To Our First Claytons Council Meeting ... The Council Meeting You Have When You're Not Having a Council Meeting.
    • Stranded: The TownsvIlle Council Finds Itself In An Impossible Position On Strand Parking Meters
    • Historical Histrionics: Forget Troy, It’s Caesar We Need To Worry About: Our Rogue Mayor Is The Man Who Would Be King
  • ► August (5)
    • Don't Get Your Hopes Up That An LNP Government Will Dismiss Troy Thompson. They Won't.
    • Mayor TwoNames Does A Trump: Put Up An Impossible Demand And Refuse To Accept The Inevitable Result.
    • Finally, Some Bite To Their Bark: The Townsville Chamber Of Commerce Seeks an Investigation Of The LGAQ.
    • Rearguard Action: Aaron Harper's Shameless Try To Save His Political Arse.
    • Lying By The Sin Of Omission Is Still Lying: What Our Two Faced Townsville Councillors Didn't Tell Us During The Election Campaign
  • ► July (4)
    • Is The Hive Development On The Rocks Again? Seems So.
    • Can't Whinge, We Wanted Transparency. And Nothing Could Be More Transparent Than Townsville Council's 'Fuck You' To The Ratepayers.
    • Pipeline Cost Blow-out: THEY KNEW ALL ALONG BUT PRETENDED THEY DIDN'T. And The Paul Jacob Was The Worst Offender ... He Lied.
    • The Hilton Bites The Dust, The Council Bites Its Tongue, and Stephen Lane Bites His Bottom Lip.
  • ► June (6)
    • As Political Suicide Notes Go, At Least TCC's Was Brief: 'We Will Introduce Paid Parking On The Strand'
    • As Political Suicide Notes Go, At Least It Was Brief: We Will Introduce Paid Parking On The Strand
    • What The Hell, TEL? The Dudley Do Nothings Do Nothing For Their Members.
    • Hotel Reservations: Leading Business Group Calls For A Halt To The Hilton Project (A Magpie Exclusive)
    • Troy Thompson Goes Full Frontal Trump: 'I Will Have My Revenge When Back In office'.
    • Great Moments In History: When Told He Was Too Wounded To Continue Fighting, Field Marshal Troy 'The Black Knight' Thompson said 'Ha, Tis But A Flesh Wound'.
  • ► May (4)
    • Is An Intervention Needed? Troy Thompson's Behaviour Hints At mental Instability.
    • Mayor TwoNames Thompson Jubilant The Council Getting Rid Of The North Rail Yard Site - To Itself.
    • Troy Thompson Is Now Caught In A Monkey Jar Trap
    • The Advisors' Rort: Party Politics Has Poisoned The Well, And Now We All Have To Drink From It.
  • ► April (4)
    • Meddling With His Past: Our Accidental Mayor's Major Blunder In A Garrison City
    • The Battle For Bottleneck Bridge Has Started, But No One Can Guess When It Will End.
    • Why Townsville Is Now On 'Lute Alert'.
    • Justified Boast Or Just Bullshit? A Vital Bit Of Info Mysteriously Disappears From Conman The Barbarian's Media profile.
  • ► March (5)
    • Conman The Barbarian: He's Not Even In Office Yet, But Troy Thompson Has Already Trashed Townsville In National Media, And Reneged On His Core Campaign Promise.
    • In Football, There's The Chaos Ball. In Townsville, There's The Mayoral Election.
    • The Old Gray Mayor Ain't What She Used To Be. In Fact, Looks Like She Is Off To The Knackers Yard.
    • Is Mayoral Hopeful Troy Thompson An Honourable Man? He Can Prove It Only By Withdrawing From The Mayoral Race.
    • We're Used To Election Bullshit, But This? Jenny Hill Adds Actual Shit To Her Re-Election Campaign.
  • ► February (4)
    • Mooney Goes Loony And Jenny Makes A Joke - And There's Still 3 Weeks Of Buffoonery To Go.
    • The Race Is On ... No, No, Not Election Stuff, We're Talkin' 'Bout The Developer's Derby
    • Welcome To The Lunar New Year - Or, As We In Townsville Call It, The Looney New Year.
    • Health Forces Fran Out Of The Mayoral Race - Is It All Over Bar The Shouting?
  • ► January (4)
    • Is Bad News Bankrupt Peter Bega Back To Prey On Residents Of One Of The City's Premier Apartment Blocks?
    • When Shimmering Dreams Of Dazzling Genius Turn Out To Be Dumb Brain Farts
    • Mayor Mullet's Baby Bonus Boo Boo Upsets Her Branch Comrades - They Want Her Censured By HQ.
    • Could 2024 Be The Year Of Closing The Yap? Not Bloody Likely, It Seems.
• ► 2023 (51)
  • ► December (4)
    • If You Think The V8 SuperPests Are A Money Sinkhole, Wait 'Til You See What She's Cooked Up Now!!!
    • NEWSFLASH: Qld Unions Appoint A New Lobbyist - Steven Miles.
    • Bonfire Of The Inanities: Labor Throw More Logs On Its Own Funeral Pyre.
    • Ad Absurdem In Extremis: South Australia Wishes Us A Very Merry December 25 And Have A Happy, Safe And Prosperous January 1.
  • ► November (4)
    • From Townsville To Whoville - Mayor Mullet Steals Christmas From The Struggling CBD.
    • THEY KNEW!! Cheap Political Shots From Cheap Political Shits.
    • Aaron Harper Tries To Throw A ‘Dead Cat’ On The Dining Room Table. And Misses.
    • Magnis Mark II? More Dreamtime For Mayor Mullet?
  • ► October (4)
    • So What Have Ratepayers Got For Half A Million Bucks Worth Of 'Advice'?
    • Call The Midwife: The Magpie Never Thought He'd Need The Services Of One, But He Did. He Was Greatly Assisted by Midwife Gracelyn Smallwood this week.
    • They Don't Think Things Through, Do They? Does A Townsville Council Media Release Give The Game Away.e
    • Speaking In Tonges: Developer Mark Tonge's Claims For His Hive Plans Don't Make Much Sense
  • ► September (5)
    • Going, Going ... Gong! Jenny Hill Gives Townsville The Royal Finger
    • That Clattering Sound You're hearing Is Yet Another Wheel Or Two Falling Off Albo's Bandwagon.
    • Bad Boys, Bad Boys, Whatcha Gonna Do, When They Come For You: Alan Joyce Has Company In Corporate Comeuppance
    • Now The Yes Campaign Tries A Bit Of Their Own 'Cultural Appropriation'
    • From Honeymoon To Heading To The Divorce Court: Albo's 'Hooray - Oh, Fuck' Trajectory With Voters.
  • ► August (4)
    • Gullible's Travels: The More He Treks Around The Country, The More The PM Finds The 'Little People' Are Angry.
    • The Perfect Storm: Who Wins When Big Business, Greenies And The Voice Face Off?
    • We're Lost In The Land Of The Lorax - Albanese's Ego Won't Let Him Move To Hose Down Voice Dissent
    • Major Fail: Scott Stewart Happy To Leave Vulnerable Townsville Group Exposed To Rorters
  • ► July (5)
    • Panic Stations At The Paper: Is The Astonisher About To Lose A Prime Source Of 'News'?
    • Another Revised Hilton Plan, But Putting Lipstick On A Pig Ain’t Easy - Dearer But Way Down Market
    • The Ultimate Arrogance Of These 'Welcome To Country' Embarrassments - But Has It Gone A Step Too Far?
    • Scott Stewart Caught Out In A Blatant Lie ... But The Minister's Spin Doctors Gave An Absolute Corker Of An Explanation.
    • The Untimely Death Of Popular Columnist Shari Tagliabue Is A Great Loss For This City.
  • ► June (4)
    • They're At It Again - The Townsville Bulletin Makes Heroes Out of Juvenile Crims
    • Jenny Hill’s Honours Award Citation Is Like Giving Ivan Milat A Posthumous Gong For Services To Bushwalking.
    • No Diplomatic Diploma For Mayor Mullet - But An A For Idiocy
    • The Luckiest City In The Lucky Country? Townsville, Apparently … Well, Sort Of.
  • ► May (4)
    • EXCLUSIVE: CCC To  Probe  The Whitsunday Regional Council Lying And Cover-Up Of Councillor Misbehaviour.
    • Are Hilton Hotels about to make it clear what they think of Townsville? But Whether They Do Something Or Nothing, It Won’t Be Complimentary.
    • SHOW HER THE DOOR IN TWENTY FOUR: New Slogan Emerges As Social Media Rage At Jenny Hill For Using Ratepayers’ Money To Fund Her Re-election Campaign.
    • King Chuck And His Side Chick Let us Eat Cake: A Multi-Million Pound Monument To Shining Hypocrisy
  • ► April (5)
    • Why Fran O’Callaghan Should’ve Swallowed A Dildo
    • The Yes Vote Has Hit The Ground Limping …
    • AECOM Arrogance And Mullet Manipulation: They Aren’t Even Considering The Arts Community’s Favoured TPAC Site At The Civic Theatre
    • Unprecedented … And Unreported. Something Happened In Townsville On Friday That Has Never Happened Before. And The Bulletin Missed It.
    • Ever Wondered Why Mayor Mullet’s Boardwalk To Nowhere Doesn’t Start At The Denham Street Bridge? The Magpie Has The Expensive Two Word Answer.
  • ► March (4)
    • 'When The Cat's Away, The Councillors Will Play: In Mayor Mullet's Absence, Council Gives Fran O'Callaghan A Resounding Victory....'
    • Trying To Make A Molehill Out Of A Mountain – The Townsville Bulletin’s Epic Fail
    • 'The Game Is On, And The Game Is  Hide And Seek ... Mayor Mullet Doing The Hiding, Fightin' Fran O'Callaghan Doing The Seeking.'  
    • A Week Of Superciliousness And of Super Silliness.
  • ► February (4)
    • Mayor Mullet’s Lost Loot: $700,000 Goes Missing From The TCC Budget, The Mayor And The CEO Haven’t A Clue Where It’s Gone (They Say).
    • Mayor Jenny Hill Opens Her Re-Election Campaign With A Threat, Telling An Already Shell Shocked  Population ‘I’m Going To Finish The Job’.
    • Bad Judgement: Maybe, But By Whom?
    • It’s Been  Week With The News Best Summed Up In Cliches
  • ► January (4)
    • Over The Hill And Far Away: Magnis Energy Technologies Makes It Official – No Lansdown Factory, No Repacking Warehouse, No 6000 Jobs Promised By Our Mayor …
    • Message From PM Albanese And The Teals To Australian Voters: You’re Irrelevant. GFY.
    • Genius!! Albo Runs Dead On The Voice Referendum … And Why It’s A Political Masterstroke
    • Anna’s Sick Joke: Her Juvenile Law ‘Reforms’ Are Like Putting An Extra Dead Bolt On Your Door But Leaving All The Windows Open.  
• ► 2022 (52)
  • ► December (3)
    • Watch Out You Lawless Little Snots, Jenny Hill Is Mad As Hell: Fed Up With Inaction On Juvenile Crime, She’s Taken Immediate Drastic Action – She’s Hired A Consultant!!!
    • It Didn’t Quite Go To Plan: Tony Mooney Gets His Arse Kicked When He Tries To Bend The Rules For His Mate, Barry Taylor.
    • Did He Or Didn’t He? Did She Or Didn’t She? The Lehrmann Rape Trial Is Canned But The Media’s Battle Of The Bilge Is Still In Full Cry.
  • ► November (4)
    • Now  It’s Jenny-Come-Lately: Welcome Maybe, But What’s Really Behind Mayor Mullet’s Extraordinary Attack On Her Labor Colleagues?
    • Jenny's Shame: The Sale Of Lindeman Island Is Townsville's Tale Of Paradise Lost
    • Abbott Calls For A Return Of National Service: Looks Like Wingnut’s Been On The Onions Again 
    • As News Weeks Go, This One Went – Slowly.  Media Idiocy Abounded In A Scramble To Please The Recreationally Outraged.
  • ► October (5)
    • Getting Moral Advice From Aaron Harper Is Like Getting Career Advice From Liz Truss
    • Down For The Count? ?  Even Les Walker Seems To Think He’s Finally Fucked.
    • Monopoly Muppets: It Really Is A Case Of Not Knowing Whether To Laugh Or Cry
    • Jenny Shouts Herself A Jolly To Korea, And We All Think ‘Ah, Seoul’.
    • Forget Pork Barrelling, Now It’s Talk Barrelling.
  • ► September (4)
    • Going Head To Head: Is There A Looming Turf War Between the Townsville Chamber of Commerce and The Dudley Do Nothings AKA TEL?
    • Magpie Claims Dibs On His Newly Coined Word ‘Hypervirtulation’: The Fast And Breathless Sermon Of The Serial Virtue-Signaller.
    • The Word From Cricket’s Cow Corner: Mayor Mullet’s Field Of Dreams Tomfoolery
    • Complete Disconnect: The Bulletin Drops All Pretence Of Connection With The Community … And With Journalism.
  • ► August (4)
    • Villainy At The Ville? Allegations Of Hanky-Panky At The Casino Have Put The Bulletin’s Tits In The Wringer.
    • The Hypocrisy Of Aaron Harper: His Latest Lecture On FB Manners Is Akin To Scomo Lecturing On Ethics
    • So Far, It’s Dennis Denuto Referendum About The Voice – It’s All About The Vibe
    • The Authorities Decide Clr Fran O’Callaghan Is Worth More Money … But There’s A Catch.
  • ► July (5)
    • Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder – But So Is Bullshit
    • Connivance In Confidence: Are We About To See An End To The Political Abuse Of Commercial In Confidence Rules?
    • Slipshod Solicitor: Legal Foghorn Barry Taylor’s Emanate Legal Cops Another Kick In The Goolies In Court
    • Naughty Bulletin - Liar Liar Front Pages On Fire
    • Coaldrake Schmolldrake … Why Anna Still Thinks Ethics Is A County In England.
  • ► June (4)
    • Budgets, Brittany,  And Big Bazza’s Mystery Buyers Revealed – It’s Been A Heady Mix In The Past Week
    • RED ALERT RED ALERT Townsville In Danger Of Being Mistaken For Paris, Singapore or Chicago …
    • The Towering Arrogance Of The Virtue Signaller: Child Care Crowd CASPA's Sore Loser Slurs
    • To Hell With It: Bob Katter’s Hell’s Gate Dam Wet Dream Flushed Away By Labor
  • ► May (5)
    • All In The Family: How The Rise Of The Independents Could Cost The Katter Clan Millions
    • Back By Popular Demand – Season Two Of This Week’s Magpie’s Nest.
    • OFFICIAL: ELECTION RESULT: Australia 1 Murdoch Nil
    • Mayor Mullet Playing Politics …It’s Like Watching A Toddler Fumble With Her Building Blocks
    • Boiling Frogs, Choosy Beggars, And The Townsville Bulletin Suggests A Sexual Assault Victim May Be Lying.
  • ► April (5)
    • SHE’S BACK!! Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid. Jackboot Jenny Interprets The Rules To Stifle Dissent
    • Unemployment At 4%? Don’t Kid Yourself, New Data Shows It’s Almost Double That …
    • From Albo’s MouthTrap To Smirko’s Alice In Wonderland Tudge Explainer: Rats, Rogues And Ratbags Hit The Hustings …
    • Time For The Woke Folk To Wake Up On This One
    • Haven’t Got Enough Juvenile Crims, Townsville? No Probs, Now They’re Going To Import Them From Interstate.
  • ► March (4)
    • When Is Barnaby Joyce At His Most Infuriating? When He’s Wrong. When Is Bob Katter At His Most Infuriating? When He’s Right.
    • It’s The Same Old Refrain: Clive Demands The Government Put Another Nickel In The Clive Nickelodeon …
    • What’s The Difference Between Sam Kerr And Gautam Adani? One Was Here, But Seems Like The Other One Won’t Be … Not That You’d Know Either Fact From The Local Media.
    • Unplugged: Townsville Council’s  Public EV Charging Sites Are A Joke … But No One's Laughing
  • ► February (4)
    • Aaron Harper Believes In Dying With Dignity – But Not For The City He Is Supposed To Represent.
    • Is It Too Early To Be Talking About Fran O’Callaghan For Mayor … And Would It Be A Good Idea Anyway?
    • Wait, What!?! News Ltd And Google Getting Together To Create A School Of Journalism? A Sick Joke, Surely?
    • Unhealthy Behaviour: A Townsville Story That Shows The Need For A Public Service Integrity Overhaul Isn’t Just A Brisbane Matter
  • ► January (5)
    • Jenny Has Her Own Forklift Moment
    • What’s The Difference Between Facebook, Media Releases And The Townsville Bulletin?
    • If You Have COVID And Die In A Car Accident In Queensland, Guess What? You Died Of COVID.
    • Eek, It’s A Nous Plague – Yes, There’s Another Nous In The House
    • Welcome To 2022, But A Disclaimer: The Management Of The Nest Takes All Care But  No Responsibility For Whatever Lies In Wait
• ► 2021 (52)
  • ► December (4)
    • How About A Quickie in The Nest? Years Since The ‘Pie Said That With Any Stiffening Of Resolve …
    • Bordering On Chaos: The Silliness Surrounding The Serious Business Of COVID.
    • The Pushback Is On … The Silence Of The Bulletin Lambs Has Changed To A Loud Bah-Bahing. The Magpie cocks an eye … if he were a dog, he’d cock a leg.
    • THE MAGNIS MESS: Magnis Energy Admits Lansdown Factory Not Happening Anytime Soon, If At All:  CEO Poullas Linked To  The International Drug Smuggler. The Ring Is Tightening … And Probably The Mayor’s Is, Too.
  • ► November (4)
    • Councillor Potty Mouth’s Take On Democracy: Margie Ryder Suggests Councillors Who Vote Against Motions Shouldn’t Be On The Council.
    • The Term ‘Pump And Dump’ Has Nothing To Do With Porn, But It Still Means We’re Being Rooted ...
    • And The Week’s Cunning Plan Golden Handcuffs  Award - Sponsored By Baldrick - Goes To …
    • Johnathan Thurston’s Quiet Little Rowes Bay Love Affair Revealed
  • ► October (5)
    • Under The Influence: Should The Townsville Bulletin Be Charged With ‘Publishing While Pissed’.
    • Our Top Gun: When The US Senator Went Cruzin’ For A Bruisin’ With Lies About Australia, He Was Taken Down Faster Than Les Walker On A Saturday Night.
    • The Magpie Gets A Smack On The Botty: And, Boy, Is His Arts Red.
    • All At Sea: Now, Mayor Mullet Wants Townsville To Become The Venice Of The North ….
    • The ‘J’ Stands For Jenius: Our Mayor Comes Up With An Industry-Killing Bit Of Political Pique.
  • ► September (4)
    • Memo Mayor Mullet: Your ‘Commercial In Confidence’ Ruling Doesn’t Hold Water. Just Like Your ‘Secret’ Pipeline?
    • Tough Titties About Future Cities: Is The Townsville Council’s Heavily Shrouded Pet Creation The Town’s Real Money Sinkhole?
    • On A Road Trip, But Asleep At The Wheel? Townsville Enterprise Not At Home When The Bad New Arrives
    • Trash Talking: Correct English Isn’t Pedantry, It’s Credibility, And The Week Had Some Shining Examples From The ‘How Not To’ Text Book.
  • ► August (5)
    • Pongy Politics: Why The Wagners Are Happy Little Wellcampers - Premier Anna-Joh Does A Secret  Deal – And Then Feeds The Chooks. 
    • A Magistrate, A Mayor And An Editor; It Was  Lewis  Carroll's Alice In Wonderland Tribute Week In Townsville.
    • Is Another Leading Arts Figure Is Quitting Townsville  ...  And Is He Another Victim Of Our KKK – Kouncil’s Kulture Kollective?
    • Is Jenny Hill Be Spending Her Last Week As Mayor In Isolation?
    • To Sum Up Townsville's Week, Take It Away, Joe Jackson: If My Eyes Don’t Deceive Me, There’s Something Goin'  Wrong Around Here.
  • ► July (4)
    • Boy They Have Really Fucked Up This Time … Has The Townsville Bulletin Has Left Itself Open For A Very Expensive Damages Action?
    • What A Pain In The Arts: Our Mayor Appears To Have Openly Lied About The Cancellation Of An Annual Cultural Event
    • Should We Love Phillip Thompson, Or Should We Hate Him? Maybe There's Ample Reason For Both.
    • Mayor On The Run: A Panicked Jenny Hill Makes Official Complaint About Councillor Disagreeing With Her
  • ► June (4)
    • FRAN-TASTIC – At Last, The Council Dictator Is Being Called Out – And Mayor Mullet Better Get Used To It
    • A Mini-Murdoch In The Making – Or Just A Grifter Looking For The Main Chance?
    • SOO Week? Around Here, It Stands For State Of Obscenity Week.
    • Phil Thompson Paintballs Townsville’s Leadership: And He Didn’t Miss In His Unexpected Splatterfest In Federal Parliament
  • ► May (5)
    • The Rehabilitation Of Jenny Hill – It’s Like Something Straight Out Of The Soviet Era Playbook
    • From Gung-Ho! To Huh-Oh: A Massive Downgrading Of The Proposed Magnis Battery Factory Has Been Announced.
    • In The Spirit Of Decency And Compassion, A Question For Legal Foghorn Barry Taylor: Mate, RUOK?
    • Gone To The Doggings … The Townsville Bulletin’s Grubby Trip Down Memory Lane Should Be Called Out
    • At Last, A Golden Opportunity Knocks For Townsville – Let’s Hope Someone Is Home.
  • ► April (4)
    • Lest We Forget
    • She’s At It Again: As Role Models Go, Angie Akee Should Go
    • A Bit Of A Change To The Good Old Aussie Foreplay Phrase ‘Brace Yerself, Beryl’ –This Time, It’s ‘Brace Yourself, Townsville Folk’, Looks Like You’re Being Softened Up For Another Rogering.
    • Lecture, Hector, Neglect … The Real Service Motto Of Jenny Hill’s Council Was Revealed In Several Alarming Incidents This Week.
  • ► March (4)
    • A Tale Of Two Cities: : Mayor Mullet’s Fairytale Metropolis Of The Near Future, and The Townsville Of Reality … It’s A Fairytale And A Reality That Won’t Have Anyone Living Happily Ever After.
    • They Went To Canberra With The Prime Minister In Their Sights, But Did They End Up Shooting Themselves In The Foot?
    • MASTERSTROKE!!! If You Think Phillip Thompson Pulled Off A Coup on The Tourist Giveaway Packages, You’re Missing The Real Story …  It Was Much, Much More Than That.
    • Is Clive Palmer Is About To Make An Offer To Buy The Townsville Show Grounds For Redevelopment? Or Is It Just A Shaggy Dog Story?  
  • ► February (4)
    • A Brisbane Olympic Games is a generational disaster-in-waiting.
    • Unfriendly Fire: The Real Reason Behind The Facebook Ban? Morrison’s Lip Service To Stiffen Rupert’s Business End.
    • Charm Bracelets: Anna’s Goofocracy Thinks Electronic Monitoring Will Work Like A Charm. Somebody Want To Tell Them?
    • HOW MUCH DOES IT TAKE, PREMIER PALASZCZUK? HOW MUCH MORE?
  • ► January (5)
    • Aaron Harper Promises To Write An Indignant, Outraged Letter … To Himself.
    • From A Seat In Parliament To A Seat On The Pavement: The Rise And Fall of Les Walker.
    • It Was A Birthday Bash – Literally. Les Walker, Tireless Denier Of Townsville Crime, Hospitalised After Being Snotted In Pub Brawl.
    • Les Walker Cries Over His Kids In Parliament, But Won't Cry Over The Victims Of His Crime-Ridden Community.
    • Big Questions Loom For Townsville In 2021: And The Biggliest - Will Jenny Hill’s Reign of Error Be Short Circuited By The Courts?
• ► 2020 (51)
  • ► December (3)
    • Big Little Lies … Bulletin Iditor Craig Warhurst Does Some Number Juggling, But Drops His Balls
    • Delusional State: Massive Blow To Those Hoping For A New NQ State - Jenny Hill Endorses The Concept.
    • Martial Law Masquerading As Medical Law? We’ve Been Told We Have No Right To Know Why Or How Pandemic Decisions Were Made On Our Behalf. Or By Whom.
  • ► November (5)
    • Les Miserable: On The Parliamentary Stage, Les Walker Turns On The Waterworks During Maiden Speech
    • From Townsville To Downsville? Mayor Mullet Hails New CEO Prins The Prince Ralston’s Appointment As ‘A Coup’.  It Sure Is – For Her.
    • The Price Of Payback Politics ... And You'll Be Picking Up The Tab
    • DEMOCRAZY Biden Slowly Getting It, Trump Quickly Losing It
    • The Good News And The Bad News: Good – The Election Campaign Is Finally Over. The Bad News - Queensland Chief Medical Officer Jeanette Young Wins the Election.  
  • ► October (4)
    • Brace Yourselves, Queensland Ratepayers, There’s A Mega Rort In The Making …. Has The LGAQ Set Itself Up For An $88million Windfall?
    • Why Jenny Hill Should Stand Down As Townsville Mayor
    • Orange Is The New Black – Black Mark, That Is, Against Our Mayor And Her Council
    • Has Trump Caught A New Virus Strain: Cowardis 19? Did His (Spin) Doctor Prescribe A ‘No Debate’ Diet?
  • ► September (4)
    • Why Paul Pissale’s Tearful Confession Haunts Tony Mooney But Not Jenny Hill.
    • Liveability And Liability. Mayor Mullet’s Cringeworthy Video Asking You To Do Her Job.
    • ‘I Don’t Make The Decisions’: The Mistress Of Shade, Anna Palaszczuk Resigns The Premiership In All But Name (And Salary)
    • Bar Brawling: Out Of Control Judges Are More Of A Problem Than You’d Like To Think
  • ► August (5)
    • The Townsville Bulletin Uncovers Corrupt Coppers … And Didn’t Even Know It
    • Not All The Covidiots Have The Virus: Palaszczuk’s Cynical Corona Virus Election Campaign
    • Leadership Disasterclass: Is There Any Coherent Plan For Townsville? Has There Ever Been?
    • Lunacy, Laziness and The Hint Of A Juicy Lawsuit - A Bad Week For The Bulletin …
    • Now It’s Judge Jenny: Mayor Mullet Gets The Magpie’s Golden Stiletto Award For Hypocrisy.
  • ► July (4)
    • More Shunting at the Old South Rail Yards, But Nary A Train In Sight.
    • FFS! What’s She Up To Now? Is The Mayor Planning Sell The Perc Tucker Building?
    • Forget Silence Of The Lambs: It’s The Silence of the Mayor That Is Townsville’s Sinister Mystery.
    • Skittling Skippy? The Weird Push To Ditch A Beloved Australian Symbol
  • ► June (4)
    • Another Fart From The Council Fan Factory Goes Pffft: The Proposed Smart Precinct Has Spectacularly Fallen Over.
    • Hiding In Plain Sight: The Child Abuse Whose Name No One Dare Speak
    • Shovel Ready? Mayor Mullet’s ‘Safe Pair Of Hands’ Must Have Callouses From All Her Shovel-Ready Opportunities - For Old Mates
    • A First Look At The Airstrip Jenny Never Built - Did The LGAQ Have Its Grubby Little Fingers In This Secret Deal?
  • ► May (5)
    • Why No News (Ltd) Could Be Good News For Townsville
    • COVID Coverup:  How The Social Drama Of Corona Virus Descended Into A Political Farce.
    • It's No Rumour, The Bulletin Is On Rupert’s Auction Block
    • Have We Been Pranked About That Haughton Pipeline? If So, It’s A Bloody Expensive Joke
    • Ever Been Blackmailed? No? Well, You Have Now.
  • ► April (4)
    • The Clear Case For The Queensland Government To Introduce IQ Testing – On Itself.
    • Echoes Of Yesteryear: HELL NO SCOMO, WE WON’T GO - (ALONG WITH THAT APP CRAP)
    • SECONDS OUT! Round 9 – Chris Condon v The Wallopers … Again.
    • Is The LNP’s Freckle About To Become A Political Melanoma? An Alarmed LNP Looks Anew At Its Parliamentary Leadership.
  • ► March (5)
    • A Cool-Headed And Dignified Old Bird, The Magpie Is Taking This New World Order Calmly, Without Panic … Well Almost.  
    • "I Will Be A Facilitator, Not A Dictator. My First 100 Days As Mayor," By Sam Cox
    • Jenny Hill Finds More Rakes To Tread On … The Latest Has Hit Her Fair In The Arts.
    • Mummy’s Little Helper: Mayor Mullet Enlists Daughter Lara For Some Web Trolling Under A False Name.
    • Saved By The Bell-carra – New Laws Thwart Jenny Hill’s Plans For Corporate Land Grab Of Council Property.
  • ► February (4)
    • Family Feud: Jenny Hill’s Brother Fred Says She Is Not To Be Trusted.
    • King Of The Kids At Last? Is David ‘Kid’ Crisafulli Our Next Premier?
    • We Had Hoped For A Messiah, But All We’ve Got So Far Is A Naughty Little Boy
    • Newspapers Behaving Badly - Another Week Of Disgrace And Dishonour For The Townsville Bulletin.
  • ► January (4)
    • The Belcarra Bite - Is Team Jenny Hill campaigning Illegally? Alleged Evidence Of Just That Has Been Sent To The Electoral Commission.
    • Clueless In Cluden? Has The Townsville Turf Club Has Pulled The Wrong Rein Yet Again, This Time Accused Of Unethical Behaviour?
    • Is It The Double Tree Hotel Or Is It The Double Talk Hotel? The Proposed Hilton Is As Whiffy As Stilton … Will The Stadium Dormitory Actually Happen?
    • Mayor Mullet in Mourning? Has Her Beloved Favourite Pet Died?
• ► 2019 (51)
  • ► December (4)
    • It’s Now Well Into The Silly Season, So The ‘Pie Says, Can’t Lick ‘Em, Then Join ‘Em
    • Detailing A Debacle: The Lack Of Foresight In The Planning Of Total Tools Stadium Is Slowly Being Revealed
    • No, No, Nanette: Has Townsville Updated The Old Musical Comedy … Without The Music … Or Comedy?
    • Water On The Brain - We Wait To See If The Legal Floodgates Open Here In Townsville
  • ► November (4)
    • Stroke Of Genius … Or Just A Stroke?  Harpic Harper Puts The Cleaners Through The Townsville Bulletin
    • In Townsville, Where There’s Smoke, There’s …. Mirrors. And Plenty To Reflect On This Week.
    • Our Nanny State: Workplace Health And Safety Laws Now Embrace Election Campaigns? A Townsville First?
    • The Daily Astonisher Has A Great(ish) Year, Notching Up A National First, With Little Help From Fate.
  • ► October (4)
    • Legal Fog-Horn Barry Taylor A 'Slum Landlord'? The Townsville Council Seems To Think So
    • Townsville’s Week: Kindergarten Kops, And Mayor Mullet’s Field Of Nightmares
    • The ‘Pie Takes A Punt And Reckons Scott Stewart Won’t Run Again.
    • Oh, She’s Good All Right … Mayor Mullet Neatly Switches From Baffling With Bullshit To Bullying With Belcarra
  • ► September (5)
    • OUTFOXED! Rocky’s Mayor Margaret Strelow Outsmarts our ‘Mayor Mullet’ - Faint Praise, To Be Sure, But Anyway …
    • There’s An A-Bomb Heading Mayor Mullet’s Way … And The Fallout Could Be Terminal.
    • She Just Can’t Stop Digging … But Has Mayor Mullet Gone Too Far This Time?
    • An Incontinent Council? Sez Who?
    • Mayor Jenny Hill Says She Will Put Charities 'On The Mat' …And Pulls The Rug From Under Her Own Feet.
  • ► August (4)
    • The Curtain Falls On TEL’s Rocky Horror Show … But Board Deputy Chair Mayor Mullet and CEO Little Patty Aren’t Clapping …
    • Les 'Messagebank' Walker, Townsville’s Git That Keeps On Giving.
    • Rubbish Performance: Mega-Garbos Cleanaway Whack A Client With A 53% Fee Increase … But Won’t Say Why
    • The Worm Finally Turns: The Astonisher Gets Stuck Into The Townsville City Council – But We Wonder Why
  • ► July (4)
    • A Rocky Start For A Mayoral Wannabe … The Letter Sam Cox Should’ve Written.
    • That Flood Report: The Townsville Bulletin Says It Asks The Tough Questions We Want Answers To …Well, The Magpie Has A Few For You
    • That $350,000 Deal With Jamie Durie: The Simmering Rage Grows Across The City
    • Ironywoman!!! In Three Short Years, Jenny Hill Has Gone From ‘No Water Crisis’ To ‘ We’ll All Be Rooned If We Don’t Get A Second Pipeline’ .
  • ► June (5)
    • The Bulletin Says Jenny Hill Could Be Re-Elected Unopposed. That Would Be Like Voters Saying ‘These Prawns Taste Funny’ – But You Keep Eating Them Anyway.
    • Rancor And Resentment: Big Ructions At The Big End Of Town, As The Struggling NQ Club Members Go The Verbal Biff With Each Other
    • Outsourcing Our Mayoralty. How Jenny Hill Was Led Down The Garden Path
    • Sadly, Inevitably, This Week It’s Mostly About Adani, One Way Or The Other - Hey, Come Back Here!
    • Uh Oh, He’s Back: And The Magpie Offers A Possible Reason For Jamie Durie’s Renewed Smash’n’Grab On Townsville Council’s Coffers.
  • ► May (4)
    • Political Re-Education, Democracy-Style: Don’t Lock ‘Em Up, Lock ‘Em Out
    • It’s Either A Mistake Or A Miracle: The Astonisher Records A Rare Rise In Readership … But …
    • The Ultimate Outsourcing: The Mayor And Her Councillors Contract Out The Job We Pay THEM To Do
    • Memo Mayor Mullet: Being Seen Through Is Not Transparency. The TCC Culture Of Secrecy Continues Apace.
  • ► April (4)
    • Developmentally Delayed: Why Is The TCC Development Corporation Quietly Being Wound Up … Before It Has Even Done Anything?
    • Caught Out!! Townsville Enterprise Doctors Political Survey Results
    • Queensland Health Is Putting Lives At Risk At The Townsville Hospital Through Cost Cutting … The Magpie Has Evidence of A Dangerous Crisis.
    • Townsville Bonkarama!! It’s Got It All … Illicit Rumpy Pumpy, Fisticuffs, Legal Threats, Property Damage… The 'Pie Goes All 'Daily Mail'.
  • ► March (5)
    • Has The Smile Been Wiped Off His Face? Word Is a Townsville High Flyer has Been Turfed Out Of The Marital Mansion For … errr … Improper Use Of His Desk-Top At Work.
    • The Blather Storm Gathers Strength: The Astonisher Is So Desperate For Love, Is Tinder Next?
    • Hard Going Getting On Top Of The Hill: The Mayor’s Magnificent Mount Louisa Make-Over Might Stumble At The First Jump
    • Taking Double Dipping To An Art Form: Are Townsville Airport Owners QAL Asking Us To Pay TWICE for their airport upgrade?
    • From 'No Water Crisis' To Permanent Water Restrictions? Mayor Mullet Swims Upstream
  • ► February (4)
    • It’s A Bugger …But Maybe A Blessing, Too. Do We Need To Clean Up More Than The Mud And Mould?
    • Solicitor Barry Taylor’s Former Business Mate Gets Two And A Half Years In The Jug
    • The Vigilante Of The ‘Ville: Our Mayor’s Goes Full Bogan On Potential Looters
    • ‘Disaster Management’ Or ‘Management Disaster’? We Have A List … So Far
  • ► January (4)
    • Hi-Jacking Australia Day: Photo Op Fail Shows That The Mayor Knows How Deep She Is In The Electoral Doo-Doos
    • The Local Government Godzilla: Should The CCC Be Taking A Closer Look At The Money-Grubbing Activities Of The LGAQ?
    • The Massive Difference Between ‘Buy Local’ And ‘Local Buy’ … How Mayor Mullet Has Played The Townsville Business Community For Mugs.
    • Doing A Little With A Lot: Move Over Jesus, Your Loaves And Fishes Stunt Ain’t In It Against The Townsville Bulletin.
• ► 2018 (54)
  • ► December (5)
    • To End The Year, A Mini-Magpie With A Mini Mystery.
    • Merry Chrissy, Y’all.
    • The Townsville City Council IS Under Investigation By The CCC … Says Who, You Ask? The CCC Itself, That’s Who.
    • The Allure Of Nepotism:  Authorities Nip A Scam In The Bud, But Was The Townsville Council Involved? Walker Street Faces Some Tricky Questions.
    • In The Week That Adele Young and Stephen Beckett Flee Their Soiled Nest, There Was A Third Significant Departure That Has Gone Wholly Unreported.
  • ► November (4)
    • No Duty Of Care: The Townsville City Council Turns Its Back On A Group Of Ratepayers Who Face A Major Health Hazard.
    • An Admission Of Arson? The Queensland Fire and Emergency Services reported to agree to pay almost $50,000 compensation to a widow for an apparent arson attack on her Bluewater property.
    • INAPPROPRIATE!!! Adele Young Shows She Is Not Fit To Have Her Leadership Role Of This City
    • Mullet The Magician: How Did Our Mayor Make $23million Just Disappear? Yes, Really!
  • ► October (4)
    • Townsville Council’s Annual Report Is Just Fairy Floss - Spun Sugar With A Bit Of Colour
    • She’s Back … And She’s Running … But Have Ratepayers Been Hoodwinked Into Funding Mayor Mullet’s Re-election Campaign?
    • Could There Be Commercial Advertising On The Castle Hill Rock Face A La The Sydney Opera House? Could Be On The Cards, Says The Council.
    • Barry Taylor’s Enema Legal Gets Flushed Right Down The Drain: Bazza’s Bullying Tactic Thrown Out By Appeals Court.
  • ► September (6)
    • As The Pie Was Saying Before He Was So Rudely Interrupted ...
    • As The 'Pie Was Saying Before He Was So Rudely Interrupted ....
    • Apologies, probably should have done this in the beginning.
    • Has The Worm Turned? Astonisher Editor Jenna Cairney's Private Battle Between Policy And Principle.
    • Dead Mackerel By Moonlight: Premier Anna Alphabet’s Extraordinary Attack On Free Speech – All Boofheaded Bullying And A Touch Of Blackmail.
    • Stocks, Shares And Shonks … Looks Like Mayor Mullet Has Been Suckered Big Time
  • ► August (4)
    • Crumbs, With Friends Like This … Labor Will Make Mincemeat Of ScoMo, according to Townsville’s Most Successful Lib – And He’s Right.
    • Choosing The Lesser Of Two Weevils: Palmer Sues O’Toole.
    • The Gloves Are Off, The Lycra Togs Are On: The Jenny and Jenna Tag Team Start Back-Slamming All Comers.
    • SLAPP Down: Legal Bully Barry Taylor Gets A Long Overdue Judicial Kick In The Balls
  • ► July (5)
    • From Ashes to Ashes: The Fascinating Background To The Proposed Crematorium In Railway Estate.
    • Feasibility Fantasies: Fact And Fiction In A Leaked TEL Report On Hell’s Gate Dam.
    • Fibber Or Just Foolish: CEO of the Dudley Do Nothings, Little Patty O’Callaghan Is One Or T’other … Or Maybe A Bit Of Both.
    • If The Mooney Era Was Townsville’s Golden Years, Then The Hill Era Is Townsville’s Golden Shower Years
    • Bad Boy Behaviour? Bluewater Bush Fire Brigade Officer Under Investigation By Brisbane Authorities
  • ► June (4)
    • Clive Palmer Sues Mayor Jenny Hill For $3million For Defamation, Revealing There Was No $50k Settlement And Apology For Calling Him A Crook.
    • Oh, That Flapping Sound During The Week, You Ask? Just Jenny Hill’s Chickens Coming Home To Roost.
    • From Branch Stacking To Board Stacking: Why Tony Mooney Should Resign As Board Chairman Of The Townsville Hospital And Health Services.
    • As They Say, The More Things Change Etc … But Now, They Don’t Even Try To Hide The Arrogant Blatant Carpetbagging
  • ► May (4)
    • Rupert In Retreat? It’s Looking More And More Like The Townsville Bulletin Has Been Flogged Off
    • The Pride And Prejudice of Ewen Jones: He Was On Thin Ice Long Before Last Weeks Blunder
    • Is The Townsville Council Up Corruption Creek In A Barbed-Wire Canoe With A Bent Safety Pin For A Paddle? Could Be.
    • Mayor Mullet’s Donation Secret ‘Just A Slip-Up? Sure .. If WW11 was ‘Just A Slight Disagreement’.
  • ► April (5)
    • Townsville City Councillors Say They Are Now Transparent - True, We Can See Right Through Them
    • If I Were Mayor: Have YOUR say. 
    • They Haven’t A Leg To Stand On – The Australian Makes The Cock Up Of The Year
    • Dangerous Dogs: Jenny Hill’s Hidden Agenda Feud With The RSPCA Comes Back To Bite Her On Her Electoral Bum – Big Time.
    • Beastly Behaviour: The The Walker Street Fright Bats Target Fido and Pussykins In Their Callous And Chaotic Cost Cutting.
  • ► March (5)
    • EXCLUSIVE: Cricket Australia Gets A New Sponsor   … And The Sinking SS Townsville Loses A Rodent Overboard.
    • Mayor Mullet Stars In Her Own (Im)morality Play ‘The Remaking Of Jenny Hill’ … It’s A Hoot.
    • Jenny Hill Shows Why Our Next Mayor Should NOT Be A Politician.
    • Spun Sugar … The Townsville Council’s Fairy Floss Reply To A Damning Official Finding That It Hides Information.
    • A Pain In The Arts – The Walker Street Junta Continues Its Secret Bludgeoning Of The Townsville Arts Scene
  • ► February (4)
    • MAYOR JENNY HILL TO PAY CLIVE PALMER $50,000 DAMAGES FOR CALLING HIM A CROOK, AND WILL ISSUE A PUBLIC APOLOGY.
    • The Mayor Goes For The Danish Pastry Model Of Governance – Layer Upon Layer Upon Layer
    • The Bulletin And The Barnbaby - Why The Astonisher Deserves An Award For A Headline They DIDN’T Write.
    • Why Some Townsville Investors Are Heading For The Hills, Shunning A New Prime Site Development On The Strand
  • ► January (4)
    • It’s Here! You’ll Laugh, You’ll Cry, You’ll Gag, You’ll Clench Your Fists … Yes, It’s …
    • Secrets And The City: Townsville Becomes Mushroomville , Fed On Bullshit And Kept In The Dark.
    • As Alice Said. Curiouser And Curiouser  … But Our Wonderland Is The Townsville Council’s Answer The Adani Airstrip Criticism.
    • Why Didn’t We Think Of It Before? The Answer To Our CBD Woes Is - Ta Da - Heavy Toxic Industry. It Could Be About To Happen.
• ► 2017 (53)
  • ► December (5)
    • Let Others Review The Old Year – Better Fun If We Preview The Coming Year
    • ASTOUNDING!!! Townsville Council CEO Adele The Impaler Young Threatens A Ratepayer With Court Action – Because He Asked Questions About The Mayor’s Adani Actions!
    • Secret Society: They’re Spending Our Money AND Running Our City In Secret - But Not For Long.
    • Boy, Is She On The Run!! Mayor Mullet Has A Cack-handed Try ‘Redirecting The Narrative’.
    • Time For D Day – As In Divorce, To Undo The Queensland Libs Hi-Jacking Of The Bush
  • ► November (4)
    • Pipe Dreams: More Conning On Water Security
    • TOWNSVILLE BULLETIN NATIONAL EXCLUSIVE: Paper Claims Anna Palaszczuk Is A Cross-Dressing Homosexual Man! They Really Do!
    • If It Is True ‘Whom The Gods Would Destroy They First Make Mad’ – Then, Boy, Have The Gods Got It In For Mayor Mullet
    • You’d Think Ronald MacDonald Was Running This Campaign. Slogan: You Wants Lies With That?
  • ► October (4)
    • Strewth! It’s A Sheila! – The Astonisher Finds A New Editor But Mayor Mullet Loses The Plot
    • The Ratepayers Revolt But The Voice Of The North Gets Laryngitis 
    • Mayor Mullet And The Monkey Trap – She's Really Has Got Her Tits Caught In The Wringer This Time.
    • Punting For Fun And Political Profit - Mayor Mullet Places A Long Shot Bet At The Adani TAB.
  • ► September (5)
    • Iditor Ben Bogan Heads Back South, Letting News Corpse Show Exactly What It Thinks Of Townsville  
    • Is The Reputation Of Another Of Townsville's Gilded Few Starting To Unravel?
    • Exclusive: The Real Reason Airport Boss Kevin Gill Is Furious With Jetstar
    • Has The Impaler has gone? If So, Who Will Replace Her? The Magpie Has The Ideal Candidate.
    • Thanks, Mayor Jenny Hill, The Rest Of The Country Isn’t Laughing At Townsville Anymore … They’re Sniggering.
  • ► August (4)
    • Kevin Gill Townsville’s Three Dollar Man Is At It Again, Ably Aided by The Astonisher’s Two Bob Ben Bogan.
    • The Gloves Are Off: The ‘Pie And Legal Foghorn Bazza Taylor Are Set To Dook It Out In Court
    • Jenny’s Personal Road To DAMascus: The Miracle Of Going From ‘No Crisis, Cut The Crap’ To ‘Hurry Up, Turn On The Tap’
    • The Blunders Of Iditor Ben Bogan – It’s A Big Book, But Two This Week Are Doozies.
  • ► July (5)
    • Adani Delivers A Low Blow And Pulls The Race Card
    • Upping The Ante: Bazza Taylor Pulls Out The Bazooka And Advises His Client Rabieh Krayem To Seek $300,000 Damages From The Magpie.
    • Energiser Bunny Or Ratepayer Rabbits – Why The Proposed Battery Project Is Looking Drained
    • The Taking Of Townsville – The Silent Invasion Is Underway - No Joke
    • Why Jenny Hill Won’t Run For Mayor In 2020
  • ► June (5)
    • A Rare Mid-Week Magpie, But It's Important
    • Wheeling And Dealing: In Or Out Of Office, The Long-Established Network Of The Gilded Few Continues To Profit From An Ailing Townsville
    • Townsville City Council Descends Into Chaos – A Key Appointee Walks Out Because Of ‘Toxic Atmosphere’.  
    • Bazza Taylor’s Legal Outfit Takes On A Couple Of Colorful New Clients.
    • The Curse Of The Crystal Ball: The Pie’s Prediction That Shari Tagliabue Would Depart The Astonisher Was On The Money.
  • ► May (4)
    • Forget The White Shoe Brigade - The White Turban Brigade Has Not Only Oiled Its Way Into Town – It’s Got a Seat At Our Cabinet Table
    • Another Week Of Questions, Big And Small. Like, Is The Magpie Facing A PC Backlash … And Possibly Court?
    • The Budget Makes It Official: The Government Can Now Take The Piss Out Of The Unemployed
    • Mayor Mullet Says It's OK For Her To Use RatePayer Money To Shout A Tame Journo Along On Her Indian Jolly
  • ► April (5)
    • Desperate Times Call For Big Laughs … The Bulletin Has The Local Real Estate Industry In Stitches.
    • Is The Love Affair Ending? The Astonisher Sticks The Boot Into Mayor Mullet
    • Revolt Against Rupert – Staff Tell Bosses ‘We’re Mad As Hell, And Not Taking It Anymore’.
    • The Weird Cowboys Leagues Club Board Election Proves It Really Is A Cowboy Outfit.
    • Last Week, We Waited For Debbie To Reveal Her Worst – This Week, We Wait For Jenny To Explain Hers.
  • ► March (4)
    • Ratepayers Rorted: Mayor Jenny Hill’s New Theme Song: Come Fly With Me … At The Ratepayers’ Expense.
    • When it comes to tying yourself up in knots, Madam Lash could learn a trick or two from the Bulletin …
    • Why Kevin Gill Should Stand-down From The TEL Board … Or Be Stood Down.
    • Fixing The Result: It’d Never Happen With The Cowboy Players, But Maybe When It Comes To The Leagues Club Board Elections ???
  • ► February (4)
    • Ouch of The Week – The Chest-Beating Townsville Bulletin Scooped On A Major Queensland Story By - Oh The Embarrassment - The Northern Star in Mt Isa.
    • From The Home Of The Knave And The Land Of The Freebie: Trump Says He Runs ‘A Well Oiled Machine’? Really? Our Mayor Mullet Could Teach Him A Thing Or Two.
    • Their Water Is Worth Bottling … The Big Danger Facing The Water For Townsville Facebook Phenomenon.
    • Mayor Jenny Hill virtually admits that Townsville Enterprise is a waste of ratepayers money because they can’t do their job.
  • ► January (4)
    • How Hill Has Hoodwinked Us … And How Ray Burton Tried To Save Our Bacon
    • Bogan’s Big Backdown: Townsville Bulletin Editor Ben English Admits Publishing Misinformation … And Publicly Apologises!
    • Why He’s Called The Iditor – Ben ‘Bogan’ English’s Thigh-Slapper On Daylight Saving
    • The Year Ahead … Will One Notion Continue To Be Australia’s Political Petri Dish?
• ► 2016 (49)
  • ► December (3)
    • Whistleblower Gives More Details On Toxic Waste Stored Near RAAF Townsville Kindergarten
    • Is Adani our new Queensland Nickel? Everything indicates an even shorter shelf life.
    • Townsville: Parched One Day, Perfect The Next -The Bulletin Goes Schizo Shitzo
  • ► November (4)
    • Drones In The Sky To Fight Townsville Crime? Hardly! Drones On The Ground ARE The Crime Of Townsville.
    • The Comedy of Astonisher Iditor Ben Bogan English, But No One Was Laughing When the Bully Bit The Hand That Feeds It.
    • A Warning From The American Voter To Townsville's 'Gilded Few'.
    • LNP Lunacy: Are They Handing Townsville - And Maybe Queensland – On A Platter To The One Notion Nutters?
  • ► October (5)
    • Mayor Mullet’s Mendacity Laid Bare – Millions of Dollars Flee Townsville As National Arts Patrons Walk
    • Has The RAAF Got A Dirty – And Deadly – Little Secret? Is the ‘Ville About To Be The Next Oakey?
    • Inside The Belly Of The Beast: Townsville City Council In Chaos
    • Has Adele The Impaler Young Been Brought In As A Contract Killer – Just To Kill Contracts?
    • Forget Fruit Bats, Townsville Faces Catastrophic Damage From The New Plague … Fright Bats.
  • ► September (4)
    • Just For Fun: A Week Of Oddities That Were Meant To Be Odd
    • Gracelyn Smallwood And Scientology - Who'da Thought.
    • Bill Byrne Got It Right (For Once), The Bulletin Got It Wrong (What, Again?)
    • Who’s A Big Fat Fibber, Then? Townsville Council's New CEO Has Track Record For Public Porkies.
  • ► August (4)
    • This week The ‘Pie goes all Gilbert and Sullivan and does a Nanki Poo blog that is a thing of shreds and patches.
    • Salvation or suicide? The Townsville Bulletin Roll Of The Freemium Dice.
    • Boot Camp Gone To Boot Hill? Anna Alphabet's Olympic Standard Somersault
    • The Silence Of The Townsville CBD … Is Golden? It’s a tourism winner says one Townsville Enterprise board member.
  • ► July (3)
    • Cold Case Gets Parents Hot Under The Collar - What Is The Astonisher Not Telling Us?
    • Too Clever By Half? State Labor’s Imaginative Fiscal Plan.
    • No blog yet, but ......
  • ► June (4)
    • Ssssh – Don’t Tell Anyone, TEL Is Trying To Keep It Quiet: The (Rumoured Forced) Departure Of A Most Senior Executive.  
    • In A Dreary Campaign, The Odd Light Moment, Including the ABC’s Explanation of Politics For Play Schoolers.
    • Days Of Our Lies … Seems Everyone Is At It, Not Just The Pollies.
    • Think Cathy The Tool Will Win Herbert? Seems The Labor Hierarchy Don’t.
  • ► May (4)
    • If The KAP Fits … EcoPoodle Col Dwyer Becomes A KatterTonic
    • Forget Paradise – In The ‘Ville, We Live In Utopia … Apparently.
    • From ‘Build It And They Will Come’ to 'Don't Build It And They Will Go' … The Astoniisher’s Hilarious Back Flip
    • Do You Want Lies With That … the McDonalds Election Is Upon Us. And An Open Letter To Astonisher Editor English.
  • ► April (5)
    • Our Mayor's Novel Approach To Our Unemployment Woes – Sack More People.
    • Sorting The Flummery From The Facts; An Incisive Summary Of the Report No One Wanted You To See.
    • The Crocs Cark It … And Maybe That’s The Game Changer We Need.
    • Is the ‘Ville Happening City Or What? We’ve Got Culturalfest, Musicfest, Runathon, Groovin’ The Moo-a-thon, V8Rev-a-thon, and now, … Whingefest and Moan-a-thon.
    • If A Newspaper Is Supposed To Reflect The Community's Interests, Concerns And Intelligence, Then Townsville Is Rooted.
  • ► March (4)
    • The Magpie Offers His Congratulations To Townsville's New Mayor, Let’s Hear It For … Laurence Lancini!
    • Team Hill v Team Arlett: The 'Pie's Call of the Card
    • Now It Gets Personal: Mayoral Race Boils Up From Tepid To Warm(ish)
    • Just A Fortnight To Go Before We Vote For Another Four Years Of Same Old – Same Old.
  • ► February (4)
    • This week, Flagging Spirits: the Townsville Bulletin caught out by its own pompous preaching. And Jenny Hill Unveils Her Freeloaders Policy.
    • The Cheek of the Week Award goes to the union trying to bully Townsville Council candidates ... a forgiving Labor Party lets bygones be bygones and steps in to help an old friend in the mayoral race - and Townsville Deputy Doo Dah takes some Magpie-nesters to task.
    • A Week Of Wonders – Donald Trump Nominated For The Nobel Peace Prize, Dumbo Jones Does The Right Thing By Doing The Wrong Thing, And The Bulletin’s Nosedive Becomes More A Gentle Glide.
    • Is March 19 going to Townsville’s Independents’ Day? Looks like it could be. And the latest readership numbers continue the Astonisher's Nightmare On Flinders Street West.
  • ► January (5)
    • A false white knight hiding a black heart - scumbaggery reaches a new low at the Townsville Bulletin.
    • 'The vision thing' versus the rear view mirror – is this Day 1 one of the real council campaign? And Jed Clampett for mayor? Questions, questions ...
    • D Day for Pay Day Jan 27: Townsville Council Now Forced To An Open Vote On The Proposed Increased Pay Rort – before the council elections.
    • Hey, fancy a 14% pay rise? Give Jenny and Jayne a run for their money, ‘cos that’s what the new mayor can get – trouble is, it’s actually YOUR money.
    • What do Labor’s Coralee The Rorter O’Rourke and foam flecked anti-islamic ranter Kim Vulgarina Vuga have in common … and why The Rorter is breaking out in a dainty sweat just now?
• ► 2015 (52)
  • ► December (4)
    • It's The So-Called Silly Season - But Isn't It Always Here In The Nest?
    • Hush Townsville, listen now, does something weevil this way come? Are we in for another News Corpse infestation?
    • Is Vern Veitch Going To Be Our Local Billy Gordon (Sans Selfies).
    • Jobs Or A Footy Stadium? Anna’s Easy Answer Is A Political Godsend For Her.
  • ► November (4)
    • Who is that mystery candidate missing from Mayor Mullet’s Team? And has Jayne Arlettt tactic of ‘drip-teasing’ the names of her team members painted her into a corner?
    • Asleep At The Wheel – The Townsville Bulletin Bombs Out Spectacularly, Missing The Local Story Of The Year.
    • Is a three day a week Bulletin far away? Numbers and announcements during the week suggest it could be one possibility in News Ltd’s Australia-wide nightmare.
    • The slow motion train wreck continues – News Corps Queensland numbers continue to plummet. And Labor rebadges itself as the LOTNOT Party.
  • ► October (5)
    • Forget about kids in witches hat and monster masks. Prepare for the Adults Only Halloween 2015 – with one surprise you will think you recognize, especially if you work at The Astonisher.
    • It Is Time, The Magpie Said, To Speak Of Many Things - Bus Hubs, Humbug and Hubris – plenty of jaw-droppers in the nest this week.
    • Can she be serious? Jenny Hill says if the Feds stump up funding for the proposed CBD footy ground, it won’t be named after Johnathan Thurston. Guess who instead?
    • Townsville (and the Daily Astonisher) Definitely Need A Statue of Limitations … and a reality check.
    • It’s 'J' Week .. Jayne, Jenny, Justin, Jesus and JT … the last two being tautology around here.
  • ► September (4)
    • Bob Katter Fears For His Seat – Literally. Now he reckons there is a secret government agenda to make homosexuality COMPULSORY. Geez, that's a real bummer, eh Bob?
    • Knock, knock? Who’s There? Tony. Tony who? Christ, it doesn’t take long, does it, you ungrateful buggers?
    • Townsville's conspiracy week in review: the Bulletin lies, The Mullet cries, and did Ewen Jones leak on himself?
    • Townsville’s on a Bali Hai right now – can it last? And the intriguing Case of the Missing $200,000.
  • ► August (5)
    • While The ‘Pie Was Away, They All Came Out To Play ... but this little birdie was watching from on high.
    • THE NEST PART 1: The ‘Pie is on the wing , and wi-fi is a sometimes thing where he is venturing, so it will be short and sweet(ish) – including Bentley’s funniest yet!
    • Forget VP 70, Townsville, brace yourself for The Battle of the Bilge … Are two of our most formidable political backroom boys ready to slug it out in the council election?
    • The sorry tale of the late Mayor Mullet … our Queen Bee mayor can’t seem to turn up on time … not even for the state governor, nor the Federal Treasurer.
    • It’s certainly been the week of the ephemera in the ‘Ville … and not just the wonderful arty stuff along the Strand … the Daily Astonisher had reason to look up the word when a major beat-up came and went like a sun shower.
  • ► July (4)
    • Is Mayor Mullet rattled by Jayne Arlett’s expected mayoral challenge? Sure looks like it, if the mayor's public dummy spit yesterday is an indication..
    • Believe what Astonisher reporter Anthony Galloway writes? Bill Shorten didn’t - and said so, denying he had ever definitively said the C word.
    • Who’s a Silly Billy, then? Cathy O’Toole’s campaign director Billy Colless gets off to an hilarious start, forced to cancel invitations to a function that promised to be an out-of-control party.
    • How the socialist left unions' plans to take over Townsville Council have been thwarted - for the time being. Not jokin’, folks.
  • ► June (4)
    • It’s been a week clued to the telly, transfixed by intrigue, flowery but grim rhetoric, surprise twists and a bleak outlook … yes, it was the latest episode in the new season of Game of Tones!
    • Dumbo Jones breaks out the champagne - Cathy O’Toole looks set to be Labor’s candidate for Herbert.
    • Labor Preselection Stoush in Herbert: will Mark Enders messy end also be the end of Cathy O’Toole's bid for gravy train glory? Rules are rules … or are they?
    • Bondy sails off to calmer waters. And the unsung words of a man not frightened to sock it to the Townsville establishment (no, not The Magpie).
  • ► May (5)
    • A fibber or a fool? Old mate Peter 'Typo' Gleeson demonstrates News Corpse’s requisite Alice In Wonderland approach to numbers. And the good news about Gore - he’s gorn.
    • It was a week for mixed messages, with one in particular winning The Magpie’s Ironyman Trophy.
    • Paying for patriotism – is the Townsville City Council shirking its responsibility to honour our war dead? And the latest Townsville Bulletin circulation figures have us humming the old musical warning ‘Something’s Gotta Give’.
    • he Astonisher goes from the callous to the clever, all in a single week, but continues its genteel slide down the readership gurgler, according to yesterday's results.
    • Lachlan Heywood seeks inspiration ... from Jesus, while Anthony Galloway gets his spark from from … an egg! And meet The Magpie's Mother of the Year.
  • ► April (4)
    • Hell hath no fury like a newspaper scorned. The riotously hilarious (and embarrassing) dummy spit by the Townsville Bulletin that has the whole town laughing.
    • Boozing in the buff ... Ewen Jones dietary tips ... Townsville businessman Mark Adam gets an accusing finger on national TV ... and a frank admission that the TEL CEO is on trainer wheels.
    • Watch out Dumbo, you’re seen as easy pickin’s – a new Labor name bobs for pre-selection to knock off the Jones boy.
    • Hey, c’mon, it’s the Easter break, so a bit of a Magpie Lite this week … as in light hearted - kinda.
  • ► March (4)
    • In politics, publishing, soufflés and sex, timing is everything - get it wrong and everything falls flat. There were several instances this week.
    • A week of questions, and some answers: Why the CEO of Townsville Council Ray Burton must be feeling a bit unloved at the moment … and who is the major mover and shaker around the place nicknamed The Koala? And why?
    • Why the Townsville greyhound racing community is cracking open the champagne ... and it’s PEE-BACK time … walls that pee back at you if you take an unauthorized whizz in public.
    • The Kid and his coffee catch-up that got tongues wagging. And the hundred million dollars the TCC doesn’t know quite what to do with.
  • ► February (4)
    • Baiting and waiting in Canberra, unintended gallows humour in Bali, and here in the ‘Ville, the unannounced mayoral race is already well and truly on.
    • This week, the Townsville Bulletin asked ‘Where’s Wally’? On its performance last Tuesday, the answer is ‘In the editor’s office.’
    • In a week when it seemed everyone was drinking the Canberra KoolAid, Dumbo danced, Wingnut stumbled and here in the ‘Ville, Astonisher Iditor Pinocchio Heywood continued to live the delusion.
    • Has Townsville been hi-jacked? The appointment of Patricia O’Callghan as a cut-price CEO of Townsville Enterprise will only enhance that view.
  • ► January (5)
    • This Saturday’s nest is going to be short but as usual never sweet. The real action will emerge overnight, and The ‘Pie is contemplating an extra posting when outcomes become clearer.
    • Some choice, Queenslanders. One week to go, and Queensland becomes Bizarreland, with political carney barking like side show alley at the Ekka.
    • So, it’s to be The Blankets and Beads election … wave something cheap and colorful in front of the natives, and you’ll have their ‘assets’ the palm of your hand.
    • EXCLUSIVE !!! Townsville’s state LNP MPs accused of using bribes to ensure a smooth election campaign.
    • The Kippin name lives on at Townsville Enterprise …. well, a Kippin anyway.
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  • ► December (4)
    • The Astonisher ends the year on an award high, snaffling the Janus Two-Faced BUMM Chalice for 2014 for the spectacular effort of decrying lawless youth, while at the same time promoting and encouraging it.
    • Graham Richo Richardson terminally ill? That's what he's reported to have told one local during a visit up here this week.
    • Anthony Simpo Templeton announces he is leaving the Townsville Bulletin for Adelaide!!! Oh, the wailing, the rending of garments, the eating of dust in despair such has been the anguish the news has evoked. But c’mon, Adelaide, you’ll get over it.
    • Power dining in the ‘Ville – a tale of the Townsville Mullet, the Sydney Fishmonger and Labor’s legendary kneecapper, Richo Richardson, who get their heads together at Richo’s local restaurant.
  • ► November (5)
    • Journalistic pack rape: how the Townsville Bulletin reported on the TCC Conflict of Interest issue – and what the paper didn’t tell you.
    • Want proof that John Bearne is sometimes off his rocker? The Magpie has irrefutable evidence that reveals exactly that – exclusively of course.
    • ***PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS G20-FREE BLOG *** No eyes or ears have been harmed in the making of this edition of The Magpie’s Nest – although some egos may take a hit.
    • Let the Fib Fest start – astonishingly good news for the Astonisher, but it somehow puts them in a bit of a publicity pickle.
    • It was a classic 'what were they thinking' week all round , particularly for a wilfully careless Townsville Bulletin, and The Mad Katter.
  • ► October (5)
    • Addled-headed editors, tap dancing priests and a graphic sex video that's not for everyone. Has anybody been missed?
    • Oh, dear, what has The Magpie started. A new joke craze going around Townsville, inspired by the most unlikely person. You can join in.
    • Certainly has been a week of shock/horror in the Astonisher … but the shock and the horror was all its own clumsy doing. Is it all unravelling down on Flinders St West?
    • THE ULTIMATE SAUSAGE SIZZLE? This is just too good to leave until Saturday – and those who think ‘too soon’ …well, too bad.
    • State MP Bruce Flegg gets the flick and two other backbenchers are on shifting sand – could the LNP’s endorsement purge spread to the Federal sphere? If so, Herbert’s Dumbo Jumbo Jones will justifiably have the jitters.
  • ► September (4)
    • Is The Townsville Bulletin is spreading anti-Islamic propaganda under the guise of responsible reporting?
    • An ex-mayor to go for state? With Rosemary The Iron Maiden Menkens heading for a gently rusting retirement, a curious race is taking shape in the Burdekin.
    • Should Tony Mooney be the next CEO of Townsville Enterprise? The case for and against.
    • The Kipper about to be filleted? But who is wielding the boning knife?
  • ► August (5)
    • The Magpie is moved to pen a poem for The Daily Astonisher, after its week of written and mathematical mayhem.
    • The Magpie names the runaway winner of his new award, the Ironyman Challenge; and buying back the farm – could the scene be set the Townsville Bulletin come back into local hands?
    • The super stadium debate goes haywire - and so does the Daily Astonisher.
    • The $100 million debate the Townsville Bulletin won’t let you have: will the ‘super stadium’ be all that super for ratepayers?
    • Has the Ghost of Gore manifested itself and come to haunt one of north Queensland’s premier tourist destinations?
  • ► July (6)
    • Could Mayor Mullet be about to be handed a second term on a platter? Looks very possible.
    • A loaf of bread, a jug of wine ... but 'paradise enow'? Come off it, stop the juvenile justification as to why we live here.
    • In a ‘what were they thinking’ week, it’s been a race to the bottom in terms of taste and judgement all over the place.
    • A ‘dinosaur’ returns - Senator Macca Macdonald goes rogue again with a controversial staff appointment of a man previously sacked from the position by the Prime Minister himself.
    • The hunt is on: who dobbed Mayor Mullet into the Crime and Corruption Commission – apart from her own silly self? Clue: it wasn't Townsville First.
    • Clive Palmer to host ABCTV Quiz Show?
  • ► June (4)
    • The trouble with Jenny: all that rubbish about rubbish exposes an underlying problem for Mayor Mullet.
    • Daniel in the Liar’s Den: loony lawnmower man Daniel Whipps has an hilariously bad day in court.
    • It’s been The Week of the ‘Huh’?!? in Townsville. We look at some of the spectacular head scratchers from the past seven days.
    • Life after Royalty: Prince Peter of Lindsay’s new job (you may have trouble believing it).
  • ► May (5)
    • We get our first peek at how The Astonisher is faring with digital subscriptions … the latest circulation figures might explain why another five staff have been sacked this week.
    • A Cuddlepie comeback? Or just an LNP pipedream, but based on thin but interesting evidence.
    • Oh, dem numbers: the heart-wrenching split of Emma and Roy – seems their differences are irreconcilable.
    • A tale of two journalists: two former Magpie colleagues made their different farewells this week, but only one will be remembered with respect.
    • That sinking feeling: the Townsville Bulletin dobs itself in, reporting its ‘sinkhole’ scare story was utter nonsense.
  • ► April (4)
    • Sale of the Century!! How bankrupt-about-town Gavin Thompson picked up a swisho Yarrawonga house for an incredible $300,000 just a couple years ago.
    • Has Mayor Mullet found her stalking horse in the ersatz Labor branch aka the Townsville Ratepayers Association? We’ll soon know.
    • Tin snips for priests and paedophiles? The Magpie does a Jonathon Swift and makes a ‘modest proposal’.
    • There’s a new tart strolling the streets of Townsville, her name is Emma, and she’ll do anything for money.
  • ► March (5)
    • The sick humour of Queensland’s Attorney-General, but it makes his attitude clear.
    • It sounds like tag-team wrestling, but actually, it's politics: The Fatman and The Hatman take on the Rest of the World.
    • Messagebank For Mayor? As improbable as that sounds, maybe he thinks so.
    • Messagebank Walker is getting the message out – but just what is the message?
    • Who's a pretty boy then?
  • ► February (1)
    • The Townsville Bulletin completely sells out – but not at the newsagency counter.