Blogging Townsville: Well there goes the chances of a Republic

Links we like

Local sites we like

Magnetic Times: Magnetic Island's News Website

The Magpie's Nest: Townsville's other blogger

The Place Street Press, Online: North Queensland's only free and independent music & arts publication

Townsville Folk Club: Also home of the Palm Creek Folk Festival

Blogs we follow

John Quiggin: Commentary on Australian & world events from a social-democratic perspective (and quite possibly Australia's most sensible economist)

Larvatus Prodeo: An Australian group blog which discusses politics, sociology, culture, life, religion and science from a left of centre perspective

Meganomics: George Megalogenis is quite possibly the only Murdoch journalist worth reading

Political Owl: Political and economic news from an Australian perspective including a fantatsic morning media wrap . (May Richard Farmer live forever)

Pollytics.com: A a ride through the observable reality of politics, polling and media commentary. Driven by data, infected by snark and generally containing far too many charts.

Pure Poison: Exposing the intellectual dishonesty, the flimsy arguments and the distorted data wherever they appear in the mainstream media. (And really getting stuck into Andrew Bolt)