The Hobart Mercury 10 September 2011
The good news it that things surely can’t be all that bad at the RHH if we can afford stuff like this….?
Category Archives: The Mercury
It’s Speculation Saturday!
The Australian 3 September 2011
Everything, as we all know, is somebody else’s fault. In a healthy democracy like ours, this is codified in the principle of the Separation Of Blame. The voters and the media generally blame the government and the government blames the opposition, the media and occasionally the judiciary for a bit of variety, but secretly blames the voters.
The judges tend to keep it to themselves except in a professional capacity, the smug bastards.
Leadership speculation is of course the media’s fault. Some journo gets a bit bored with the incumbent and says he or she looks a bit tired or has a nose-whistle or chews their breakfast cereal in an irritating fashion and everybody hops on board and soon we have a brand new Prime Minister to become increasingly disillusioned with.
Unfortunately in this media-savvy era everyone’s got wise to this and now the media can cause a leadership spill by not speculating about the leadership, as happened in the most recent case. So, rather than perpetuate this baffling postmodern trend, I humbly present my grossly irresponsible official leadership speculation cartoon above and another, generously suggesting a potential solution to the problem, below.
The Hobart Mercury 3 September 2011
Virtual pulp mill
The Hobart Mercury 27 September 2011
Sure, Gunns haven’t physically started building the pulp mill, but you just need to explore the possibilities a bit, Tasmania!
A substantial problem
The Mercury 23 August 2011
The Gunns pulp mill, if you recall (it was quite a while back) was fast-tracked by a special sitting of parliament because the RPDC was slowing it down – costing Gunns a million dollars a day, apparently.
A while later the mill (or “white whale” as I’ve come to think of it – well the saga’s about as long as Moby Dick) had its permit extended because everyone needed a bit of a lie down while they recovered from all that trouble the RPDC had caused with its unreasonable demands for details on the project.
Now the extension’s about to run out unless it can be shown that work has “substantially commenced. I’m sure we’re all looking forward to another special sitting of parliament to redefine the word “substantial”.
Careful opening the overhead lockers…
The Hobart Mercury 30 July 2011
…your human rights may have shifted during the flight.