Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Matthew McGrath, the man from NSW running the QLD Racing Review, is a great self-promoter, but are his claims to being a highly successful racing administrator true? The simple answer in our opinion? No. In a submission McGrath made to the Parliamentary Inquiry into the Sale of Rosehill he made the following claims, which no […]
Concerns grow for Newcastle’s greyhound racing industry Story by Oli Goeldner: Newcastle Weekly Newcastle Greens councillors are pushing for a transition plan to support the city’s greyhound racing sector, as concern mounts over safety at a Wallsend track. The call follows the Tasmanian Government’s decision to phase out the industry last month and moves overseas […]
The Brisbane Racing Club must know something that most of us don’t about the funding for its new members stand, for the club last month lodged a development application replete with detailed designs and assessments for the project with the Brisbane City Council. It would be highly unlikely that the BRC would have done such […]
Last week the Racing Minister Tim Mander and Racing Queensland CEO Lachlan Murray appeared before the parliamentary estimates committee to answer members questions about the racing portfolio. The hearing, which was allotted only half an hour, was an absolute waste of time. All we got was the former ALP Racing Minister Grace Grace asking questions […]
Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam, Where the deer and the antelope play, Where seldom is heard a discouraging word, And the skies are not cloudy all day. On what should be the greatest night of harness racing in Queensland this century a chill wind is blowing across Albion Park carrying whispers […]
That’s how we feel about Mark Latham’s stinky kinky foecal fetishes too We told you many times during his demented attacks on PVL that Mark Latham was a shitman. If his ex-girlfriend is to believe he has proven us dead right. What sort of a bloke drops a turd on his girlfriend and then insists […]
What follows are a series of text messages sent between Ben Yole and the Tasmanian Racing Minister Jane Howlett (pictured) in 2024. The messages begin on 16 April 2024, five days after Howlett became Minister following the re-election of the Liberal Government. They were obtained by a Tasmanian MP under Freedom of Information Laws, and […]
Winston Peters poses with Stamina in Mongolia. By Stewart Sowman-Lund When NZ Racing Minister and Foreign Minister Winston Peters looked a gifted horse in the mouth he decided to call it Stamina – but it almost had a very different name. Peters was in Mongolia back in February – the first visit to the nation […]
We’ve been telling you since the day he became Premier that Steven Miles is a bucking idiot. This proves it. We’re a week out from the State election and Miles party is facing political oblivion. Many of his parliamentary colleagues are facing the fight of their lives to retain their seats. They and the ALP […]
The LNP long spruiked their intention to close down the QRIC when they inevitably come to power at the end of the month appears to have all but vanished into the haze, with the QLD government-in-waiting seemingly abandoning their plan behind the cover of one of those ‘comprehensive reviews’ that politicians call when they don’t […]
