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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT As tech companies continue to pat themselves on the back for their commitments to climate change and acknowledging the human rights of LGBTI people, the mistreatment of the indentured servants living below the poverty line within this trendy new gig economy remains out of sight and out of mind. Right across the cities and bigger rural hubs, thousands of...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The board of Australia Post has hit back at former chief executive Christine Holgate during a submission to a Senate inquiry on Tuesday. The organisation's chair, Lucio Di Bartolomeo has staunchly rejected Holgate's claim that she was "unlawfully" stood down over the Cartier watches scandal. In what appears to be another case of the Morrison government throwing a high-functioning female...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local semi-retired picture frame retailer, John McEvoy (72, Betoota Grove) says someone rich as him always has options when it comes to voting at a Federal Election. If the low-taxes-pro-war party he usually votes for aren't doing it for him, he can always flick his ballot to the nearest 'turquoise blue' independent. There's no shame in him backing a...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Producers on the iconic Australian soap opera 'Neighbours' have had to scramble this week to rewrite and film several episodes that have been scrapped from the upcoming 36th season. Late last year it was revealed that the writers for Neighbours had opted against centring this year's plot lines around the extremely rare neurological condition known as amnesia for the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT In undeniably similar circumstances to the 2018 Lib Spill that saw Scott Morrison take-over as the Prime Minister Of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull has once again been sacked from yet another job after his appointment to a clean energy board was overturned. Last week, NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean had vocally backed Mr Turnbull to lead the Net Zero Emissions...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT ABC's iconic panel-argument show Q&A has experienced a huge slump in ratings for 2021, according to the outdated method of surveying a sample size of 1000 Australians for extremely valuable commercial TV data. Many in the Ultimo Kremlin are arguing that this can all be put down to the decision to shift Q+A from Monday to Thursday nights, despite early signs...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Bangalow-based online sarong retailer, Bethany Myles (33) has today been ostracised and bullied by the people she thought were her friends, at least on Instagram. Originally from Manlyvale, the young mother of two unvaccinated treasures has enjoyed a life as one of the Northern River's popular yummy Insta-mummies, after developing social media following of just over 10k with her...

INGRID DOULTON | Lady Writer | Contact As the government continues to implode over the Prime Minister's horrible handling of several serious allegations of sex crimes being perpetrated by both staffers and ministers, the loudest critics of the Liberal Party are starting to come from within. After a weekend of visiting flood ravaged towns that have just finished all the heavy lifting, Morrison needed to...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A vulnerable black kid from the Northern Territory has today experienced the repercussions for his silly actions, after being caught stealing a loaf of white bread and some packaged ham from a major supermarket chain last night. 'Joeboy', a 10-year-old Indigenous child raised in a predominantly black community in the remote Top End, was quick to admit his guilt...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The situation in Brisbane City has gone from bad to worse this afternoon, after the three-day snap lockdown has been compounded by a river paddlesteamer running aground in a narrow bend of the Brown Snake. The Queensland Capital's economy is now at an absolute standstill, as residents are ordered to stay home to avoid the spread of this dastardly...