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Category Archives: The Mercury

Ho ho ho indeed

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’s Premier is full of woe

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 [...]

The Statue In The Sand

…of course the main source of despair is how much money he wasted buggering up the Tasmanian education system yet again, but let’s not quibble. A5 print $44 A4 print $66 A3 print $88  

Put down your glasses

The Tasmanian government has sold the TOTE approximately 3 months before it was due to receive the report from a special parliamentary committee set up by the Tasmanian Government to investigate whether or not to sell the TOTE, which pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the Tasmanian government. I fully concur [...]

Seriously, that bell that’s tolling, don’t ask.

Tasmania has recently moved from having no hay in the barn to having even less hay in the barn than that. Now while the government has promised that front-line public service jobs will be the last to go, what they actually mean by “front-line services” is V8 motorcars and AFL footballers, so best of luck [...]