By a thread

Another 150 jobs gone , the state's finances in the toilet , a Jurassic Western Australian MP calls us leeches while two uninspiring boneheads dribble out a mealy mouthed response - Sid Sidebottom even offered up that Don Randall was a 'friend'. Thanks for the spirited defence, anyone with a modicum of backbone might have opened up a nuclear bomb on Randall, but maybe Sid really knows we're screwed and can't be bothered with the charade. Makes you proud to be Tasmanian. But we've got the most affordable capital city in the country - first home buyers can rejoice! And feel even prouder to be Tasmanian. Unless you bothered to check the figures... which reporter, Matt Smith, at The Mercury, didn't. Frankly, I don't know why Matt doesn't shut down his laptop, head north, and go and eat poo with the monkeys in the enclosure at the Launceston Park. "Oh look the HIA has sent us a press release, must breathlessly regurgitate figures for public con...