Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Still they carry on about this agenda item for the Shooters. There is a note on the ERC (Expenditure Review Committee) agenda item paper where Gladys has said that this matter had been discussed in a meeting the week before with Maguire. In the next line it says that Maguire has been meeting with the […]
The hearing resumes. We’ve moved onto the Clay Target Shooting Association. Robertson the ICAC counsel wants to know if Gladys put a funding request for the Shooters (we will call it that for ease while we are writing live) on the agenda for an Expenditure Review Committee meeting in 2016. How is she supposed to […]
Another phone recording is played. Maguire is sulking. He sounds as petulant as an only child who has to share his bubble wand. He is carrying on like a clown about his favourite topic, bureaucrats and red tape. Gladys is clearly not really listening to him. Mmm, mmm she says. It’s obvious she is doing […]
This Robertson bloke who is the lead inquisitor for ICAC is making himself and his organisation look silly. He is no going down the road of trying to compare (a) Gladys having declared a conflict of interest and standing aside from a selection panel for a job that two of her friends were applying for […]
We have just heard a series of phone intercepts of calls between Gladys and Maguire. They were recorded on 16 May 2018. Maguire has directly rung the Premier and is carrying on like a pork chop about Wagga having missed out in the State Budget. Gladys tells him that she has sorted his request for […]
Mr Swanell said PointsBet had also lost market share as its competitors spent big on marketing to attract new customers, but he was reluctant to enter a marketing “arms race” while it was focused on building its business with new products that would roll out in the next six months. Sam Swanell – Pointsbet CEO […]
De Kock has never bent the knee to the BLM to advertise he’s not racist, as many sportsmen now do out of conviction – or fear. He never explained why he remained standing while teammates knelt, and shouldn’t have to in a free world. “No one’s forced to do anything, not in life,” he once said. […]
My head is spinning about the changes to the New Zealand harness racing calendar, and I don’t really know what to think. Mick Guerin is painting it in a positive light, but what else is he supposed to do? I’m not sure that he really believes it. With the rider that I need to wait […]
Harness Racing New Zealand is a very sound organisation with excellent finances. There is no dollar reason for it to pull out of the Inter Dominion. Ken Spicer’s spurious statement that there are a lack of Open Class horses in New Zealand is a barrel of absolute nonsense too. Copy That and Amazing Dream just […]
A few questions. How does it cost $600 000 to remediate a hundred year old red dirt track that my Dad and Ben Currie’s both used to ride work on when they were 12? Why would the contract to remediate a dirt track go to a company called Global Turf Solutions when there isn’t a […]
