Happy Groundhog Day as plebs queue for the portaloo and Lord Mayor’s in Clover
No reminder needed. Lucia Stein, ABC News, yesterday:
It’s January 1 and … you might not need a reminder of what day it is …
Not needed? ABC News, yesterday:
New Year’s Eve 2018 typo projected on to Sydney Harbour Bridge … “Oh, will this horrible year never end?” one Twitter user asked. “Were they playing ‘If I could turn back time’?” said another … Others … dubbed it Groundhog Day and dreaded … having to relive 2018.
Pay? SBS News, December 31, 2018:
Sydney’s Lord Mayor has taken a shot at the state government for charging people to watch the … New Year’s Eve fireworks from some harbourside locations (such as the Royal Botanic Gardens) … “I frankly think it’s outrageous,” (she said).
Moi? Annabel Hennessy, The Daily Telegraph, December 31, 2018:
Lord Mayor Clover Moore (budgeted to spend up to $14,400 on tickets for herself and 18 guests including her husband) to a New Year’s Eve private party (at the Royal Botanic Gardens). … (She) said she needed to be able to describe the fireworks to the media the next day.
What did they ask? Christopher Harris, Daily Telegraph, yesterday:
Lord Mayor Clover Moore apologised … for long toilet wait times on New Year’s Eve. “Look I’m sorry if people had to queue to go to the loo. I guess that’s a lesson we will learn for next time — more portaloos,” she said.
Help the homeless? Laura Sullivan, The Daily Telegraph, December 18, 2018:
Funds saved from cancelling … Moore’s lavish (official) New Year’s Eve party should have been spent on homeless outreach services — not more Christmas decorations (said Councillor Christine Forster).
Or talk? Laura Sullivan, The Daily Telegraph, December 18, 2018:
Ratepayers will fork out … (nearly) $40,000 on a Paris and London trip to be taken by … Moore … to the 2019 Women4Climate conference in Paris … (who may) take the opportunity … to “discuss … affordable housing,” (a report said).
Head in the clouds? Megan Gorrey, The Sydney Morning Herald, December 11, 2018:
(Moore’s “vanity” art project has been put on hold after it emerged the Cloud) arch, which … was to have cost about $3.5 million, had blown out to $22 million … on top of the $2.25 million … (already spent).
Father Bob Maguire tweets, December 25, 2018:
The tweets with haunting photos of Auschwitz camp remind me of tweeted photos of refugees detained Manus.
Father Rod Bower picks up the theme. Gosford Anglican Church billboard, December 31, 2018:
Manus is how the Holocaust started.
We labelled refugees vermin to be exterminated? Bower, Anglican Parish of Gosford’s Facebook page, December 31, 2018:
The first step on the way to the Holocaust was labelling the Jews as “vermin” to be eradicated … We have taken … (this step) with refugees in Australia.
Outspoken about exploiting the jingling tills of Christmas? Bower tweets, December 25:
When I look at Jesus’ message, it is a political message: Don’t forget my new book “Outspoken” makes a Christmas gift with meaning available at all good book shops and online here.