Saturday, February 4, 2012
While William Goldman’s book Adventures In The Screen Trade is about the movie business, most of it applies equally to politics, especially his central thesis “nobody knows anything” which all politicians, staffers, journos and cartoonists should get their iPhones to repeat to them on the hour. The sequel Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures In [...]
Look, if you want a government handout in Tasmania, you start up a Chopping Down Native Forests For Woodchips Festival like everybody else. Sheesh. The cheek of it.
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Lara’s mad at Nick for not honouring the spirit of the Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement and Nick’s mad at Lara for not honouring the spirit of the Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement, which is probably just a big misunderstanding because it seems pretty plain that not honouring the spirit of the Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement is in fact the spirit of [...]
Friday, December 23, 2011
Personally, I would have loved to see Julia and Tony negotiate over Christmas dinner. Would have made everybody else’s seem squabble-free by comparison.
Saturday, December 17, 2011
In the last few years it’s been Hot-Tub Paul, then Line-In-The-Sand Bartlett, then It-Was-Like-That-When-I-Got-Here Lara and now there are scurrilous and no doubt misinformed rumours that Hey-It’s-My-Go O’Byrne may be tossing his hat into the ring. We really need to put the Lower House back to 35 seats just to make sure there are enough [...]
