Always a good way to end a good year, a good headline in a Government media announcement has popped up, popping with it the chance of a good giggle or a groan!
This week’s creation goes to Queensland’s Minister for State Development, Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning, who publicised a project producing a new wastewater pond for the good citizens of a seaside city in north Queensland.
The Minister put his notable communication thus: ‘Port Hinchinbrook Sewage Treatment Plant in safe hands”.
Yep, if you’re going to have a sewage treatment plant, be sure to have it in your hands!
PS-sssst! trusts that anyone shaking hands with the good Minister will go well equipped with some skin lotion – or gloves!
Sold News
Sad news now from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) that it has pocketed a swag of money from Facebook and Google as payment for news items and other products the pair of rapacious platforms have been busy pirating.
While the ABC’s extra funding will no doubt be of use – the Corporation has announced it will use it to finance the appointment of 50 new journalists in country areas – it unfortunately comes connected to the chancy cost of sleeping with the enemy!
Can ABC viewers, listeners, lovers and other fans accustomed to the squeaky clean news it is famous for be sure again that the news the 50 lucky journalists deliver will be of the same pure and spotless standard?
What happens to the 50 journalists if the domineering platforms pull back their funding because the news they’ve now bought isn’t up to their liking?
Maybe we know the answer already with the ABC’s MediaWatch choosing not to question the matter in favour of closing down for the holidays.
Friendly fare
A special mention to Rod M of the Queensland Department of Health now for letting us know that there are really nice people out there in PS News land.
“Recently I was fortunate enough to win a prize in one of your competitions,” Rod wrote to us recently.
“This was advertised as a draw to win DVDs – a good enough prize in itself, then when I was advised I had been one of the lucky ones, I was asked for my shirt size for a T-shirt that would be included as well.
“Then, when the parcel arrives, it also contains a couple of other pleasant surprises (I love the hand held LED wand).
“So a big thank you to PS News.
“Not only do you provide an excellent online publication that I look forward to and read every week, now you’ve given me some great tangible rewards.”
Please let it be us at PS News to thank Rod for his kind comments.
With readers like Rod – and we know there are plenty of you out there – why wouldn’t we just love bringing PS News out every week?
It’s true, we do – but we also look forward to Christmas so next week’s edition will be our last until mid-January.
More about that next week!
Changing time
To Rama Gaind’s final giveaway for 2021 now in which two lucky PS News readers will start their holidays with a free copy of the informative guide to achievement The Power to Change by award-winning author Campbell Macpherson.
To join Rama’s world of winners, all we had to do was correctly tell her the author’s purpose for The Power to Change which was to harness change to make it work for you.
“It enables you to control difficult situations and see new opportunities,” the wise writer wrote!
Keen to do just that, the first two correct entrants to pop out of the PS News Barrel of Booty this week were from Donata L from the Victorian Department of Justice and Community Safety and Gail W from Services Australia in Queensland.
Congratulations to Donata and Gail and a summery warm thankyou to everyone who took part.
Rama is off to a well-earned holiday break now with her first 2022 give-away booked for February next year.
She’ll see us all again with giveaways galore as usual then.
Finally, finally
And finally, the last word for the second last PS-sssst! for the year with who better to present it than the brilliant Philomena S of Victoria’s Department of Families, Fairness and Housing.
“I’ve found a new name for coffee at work,” the ever observant Philomena declared.
“Break fluid!” she explained.
And she was squealing right!
Until next week….
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