The Murdoch Townsville Bulletin today, March 29, produced what it called a special Easter edition . It sure is , containing the ultimate Easter weekend guide, a Catholic news lift out, grog advertisements , some full page, gambling adverts and form guide , a preview of the night's tense match between the Cowboys and the Panthers.
A surprising inclusion was an opinion piece by the former deputy editor Julian Thompson . Some time ago , JT (not the Cowboys JT ), wrote what he said was his last weekly op ed for the paper ,which included another shot at them thar southerners.
At the time he announced he was going south , to Brisbane . Readers were invited to drop in for a cuppa if they ventured down that way , but not for latte with soy milk . Naturally.
A surprising inclusion was an opinion piece by the former deputy editor Julian Thompson . Some time ago , JT (not the Cowboys JT ), wrote what he said was his last weekly op ed for the paper ,which included another shot at them thar southerners.
At the time he announced he was going south , to Brisbane . Readers were invited to drop in for a cuppa if they ventured down that way , but not for latte with soy milk . Naturally.
Then, mysteriously , after some time , there he was again sounding off about something else . Was it a subbing stuff up or a situation similar to Mark Twain , who entertainingly said reports about his demise had been premature , perhaps fake news ?
But then , here is JT again, a week later , Thursday, March 29 , without any explanation as to why he has been resurrected , apparently alive and kicking , having a go at "city centric, green clad , bureaucratic buffoonery." Sounds familiar . If the paper runs another of his weekly columns , he will surely be regarded as doing a Dame Nellie Melba, making a final performance over and over .
It is hard keeping track of the comings and goings of staff at The Bulletin. There have been three editors in the space of a few years. A recent new hand , senior reporter Chris Lees, was deputy editor of the Gladstone Observer. At least it is safe for him to eat Townsville fish and chips at Easter , not like Gladstone , where fish died grotesquely and it was never really explained properly why, the Queensland way in so many environment and conservation issues.
Somebody else departed from the Bulletin recently to supposedly take up a media job with the Northern Territory government .
Meanwhile , somebody who will not be jumping for joy throughout and after Easter is this poor , definitely dead , Wallaby , unable to pen a letter of outrage to the editor of the paper, which has been floating about Magnetic Island's safe harbour with logs and other rubbish . Townsville is once more in the throes of being tarted up, following the Queen's baton run, for a festival to be held in conjunction with the Commonwealth Games, basketball matches being played there . The festival entertainment will be staged at Queen's Park , The Strand Park and Jazzine Barracks ; apparently somebody forgot that Magnetic Island is supposed to be Townsville's Jewel in the Crown.
Thoughts of the resurrection came to mind shortly after 2am on Good Friday upon jumping out of bed to see what was upsetting the Curlews and discovering a Wallaby hopping about.
Thoughts of the resurrection came to mind shortly after 2am on Good Friday upon jumping out of bed to see what was upsetting the Curlews and discovering a Wallaby hopping about.
