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EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | Contact Worried about finding yourself in the arms of a fuckboy this Summer? Follow this guide for more information on the five most common Fuckboy variants and how to spot them. The Arty Fuckboy Also known as ‘The Fitzroy Fuckboy.’ These are one of the most common variants of fuckboy, and can be easily identified by their mullet and moustache combo,...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Despite being the architect of Qantas' spiral into reputational obscurity, Alan Joyce had the manners to accept the fact it was time to go and did so without being asked to leave. Whether it be his South Dublin street smarts or just good old-fashioned surrender, Mr. Joyce's departure from Qantas meant the foolish company now...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A 50-year-old Betoota Heights man has revealed he's never been scammed before because he harbours a base-level of nihilism that prevents him from thinking anything good will ever come his way. It's not uncommon for people in David Cadwallader's cohort to think this way, he says, because being Gen X means he's been given nothing...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Opposition leader Peter Dutton has laughed off suggestions that Nazi lunatics are attempting to hijack the No vote for their own personal mission, telling reporters that the man threatening to extrajudicially execute members of the media is "just a regular bloke." Over the weekend, a number of Vote No rallies took place across the country,...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact In the moments before the Wallabies loss to Wales in France overnight, Rugby Australia's Hamish told detractors and armchair critics of the game to tune out of the must win game in and do something else with their early morning. It's similar to the eve of the 2019 general election when Chris Bowen said if...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACTNearly 1000 years after the age of the vikings, the country of Sweden has had to admit that IKEA is the closest they ever get to plundering the wealth of the middle class anymore. Not blessed with the most abundant of agricultural resources, Norsemen in the 8th to 11th centuries often partook in summer raiding trips to more fertile...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The defacto leader of Victoria has put the short-term accomodation industry in check this week by introducing a devastating levy that should see the end of the housing crisis in that state. Speaking to media yesterday in Melbourne, Chairman Dan Andrews said the levy on places listed on platforms such as Airbnb and whatever the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The proud owner of a high-kilometer 2008 Holden Captiva has made the classic error of taking his car to a mechanic in the nice part of town, one that occupies a cute building made of bricks and is capped with sandstone. John Murray's timeless Holden soft-roader is about to tick over to a hundred thousand...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A construction project manager from our town's sprawling Heights district has added to his mortgage stress today by financing a brand-new Volkswagen Amarok. That stress, on top of owning a shiny new Reich Ranger, will create new and unusual ways for Darcy Cartwright to be anti-social to people on the road - and off the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A French Quarter man has been doing the rounds this morning, calling friends and relatives to inform them that he's had a child and that the child is healthy, and so is Mum. All is good in David Chester's world. The gifted amateur angler and one-time holder of a recreational fishing license has been caught...