But last week came two in the space of four days.

Both came from organisations with colourful letterheads and a logo featuring endemic Australian fauna - albeit one now extinct (allegedly).

The first was staggering due to an oversight of gargantuan proportions, the second because of its extraordinary honesty.

In effect, one was notable for what it didn't say, the other for what it did.

The first came from the North Melbourne Kangaroos and proudly declared how the club was debt-free for the first time since 1987.

Fair enough and surely something worth trumpeting.

However, in the ensuing lengthy list of parties who helped make this possible, it failed to mention those chiefly responsible - ie you, me and 500,000 odd others. Sorry, that should have a hyphen: 500,000-odd others.

This is because throughout their time in Tasmania, the Kangaroos have been financed by a government business enterprise, owned by the Tasmanian Government and therefore Tasmanian taxpayers.

So while the club was delighted to then thank all those who have "made significant contributions", including said enterprise (Spirit of Tasmania), it neglected to mention that the principal reason for this turnaround in fortunes was thanks to the generosity of Tasmanians.

However, it did mention that the club's debt had peaked at $9 million in 2012 and that it had recorded profits for each of the last 10 years.

So when did North begin playing games in Tasmania? Er, 2012. And how long has the deal been in existence? Er, 10 years.

An accompanying post on the club's Facebook page thanked more than 400 "significant contributors" for helping eliminate the debt.

Both "Spirit of Tasmania" and "Tasmanian Government" were given a guernsey, but again there was no place in the team for "Every Tasmanian Taxpayer".

It would be a valid question for Every Tasmanian Taxpayer to ask how much this deal is worth, what with it involving their money and all.

This is a moot point.

In June 2011, having previously declared it would not use tax-payers' money to fund a second AFL team in the state, Tasmania's then Labor Government headed by Lara Giddings decided to use tax-payers' money to fund a second AFL team in the state.

It was announced the deal was worth $1.5 million for North to play games at Bellerive Oval for the next three years.

Subsequent extensions to the deal have been less clear, leading for several calls for the figures to be made public.

Then in May this year, Spirit of Tasmania was also unveiled as the financier of a three-year deal to sponsor the Tasmania JackJumpers in the NBL.

Again, the value of the deal was not disclosed, with all parties citing "commercial in confidence".

Tasmania may have changed government since 2011, but Peter Gutwein's Liberals have been equally reluctant to tell Every Tasmanian Taxpayer how much they are actually paying.

In the offending press release, Kangaroos chief executive Ben Amarfio said: "I want to acknowledge that more than a decade of hard work and careful management has contributed to this significant result."

No doubt. But a decade of indeterminate and unacknowledged Tasmanian donations have contributed more.

President Ben Buckley added: "We are so proud of where we are and the way we've gone about eradicating this debt. It's a whole of club achievement and we are very grateful for everyone who played a role in getting us to this position."

Strangely, he too opted not to individually thank Every Tasmanian Taxpayer.

It is also worth remembering that Hawthorn were in a similarly-dire financial situation when they were connected up to an intravenous drip of Tasmanian money in 2001 - having staved off a proposed merger with Melbourne just five years earlier.

The second press release was gob-smacking for vastly different reasons.

It is the lot of state sporting bodies to be diplomatic, toe the line and never question their national revenue stream. Very occasionally however, they ignore all that and let rip.

Such was Cricket Tasmania's stunning condemnation of Cricket Australia after Tim Paine resigned as Test captain over a four-year-old sexting exchange.

Pointing out how Paine had "been a beacon for Australian cricket and instrumental in salvaging the reputation of the national team after the calamity of Cape Town", CT chairman Andrew Gaggin said his treatment by CA had been "appalling" and "the worst since Bill Lawry" who famously only learned of his 1970-71 sacking through the media.

"The Cricket Tasmania Board reaffirmed its view that Paine should not have been put in a position where he felt the need to resign over an incident that was determined by an independent inquiry at the time to not be a breach of the Code of Conduct and was a consensual and private exchange that occurred between two mature adults and was not repeated."

While hardly enhancing prospects of a relocated Fifth Ashes Test being handed to Hobart, the sentiment was a rare and welcome example of unrefined and unrestrained honesty - something which, as North Melbourne had already proved, is an elusive commodity in the land of the press release.