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LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT Police were called to a French Quarter Dog Park today after a concerned local mistook the regular day time activity as the workings of an underground Greyhound track. Greyhound racing, otherwise known as competitive fetch, is the practice of making dogs compete in a race so that people can make some money. Specifically bred for such a task, Greyhounds have...

EFFIE BATEMAN | BRISBANE| CONTACT Rife with symbolism, and themes of social justice, morality and destruction of innocence, To Kill a Mockingbird not only earnt itself a place in pop culture but quickly became a staple favourite for high school essays. However, despite its success and praise from critics, many have called for the 1964 classic to be taken away from reading curriculum for...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT Betoota Plains man Brett Wilson has today raised an important question. If diesel and petrol vehicles are phased out over the next couple of decades, how will blokes like him get the moot? The question comes after General Motors revealed that they will be ceasing the manufacture of diesel and petrol vehicles by 2035 which follows the general...

EFFIE BATEMAN | BRISBANE| CONTACT As local woman Anna Sandberg looks at her French study notes, she concludes that she wasn’t really fussed on learning the language of love anyway.  This realisation is said to have come exactly three lessons into her French language course, which she’d impulsively purchased a ten pack of when she was feeling momentarily inspired. But after discovering she didn’t have...

EFFIE BATEMAN | BRISBANE| CONTACT As she calmly packs up her laptop exactly five minutes past five so as not to appear too eager to leave, local woman Sophie Bush stares daggers at the back of her boss’s head. As the fledgeling PR coordinator for a government organisation, Sophie has just learnt her first lesson when it came to dealing with upper management in...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact In breaking news this evening, it can be revealed that the first of twelve months in the 2021 calendar year is almost at an end - and you may as well still be hungover watching test match cricket at your parent's house because that's how much you have achieved in the 20 days you've had back at work. Other...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact "Fuck that noise," he said. "I'm just going to walk over here." Masks are still compulsory in most places here in the Diamantina Shire and the people of our fine cosmopolitan desert republic need one to ride the metro, trolleybus and RiverJump services. Everyone but that guy over there, said one Betoota Transport Guard who spoke to...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The south-east corner of Queensland has comprehensively shit the bed today after letting in the turbocharged version of the spicy cough in from the UK. Communities in Western, Central and Northern Queensland are demanding Brisbane be included in the NSW border closures in a desperate attempt to keep this super spicy cough in Brisbane and...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Our Great Protector Annastacia Palaszczuk has been forced to eat humble pavlova today and apologise to the rat people of Sydney after remembering she's already won the state election. Premier Palaszczuk said the current classification of the Greater Sydney Area as a Pangolin's Wrath Hotspot will expire at midnight - while understandable restrictions are still...

EFFIE BATEMAN | BRISBANE| CONTACT Super cool, hip with the times' agency ‘Froth Media’ isn’t like other agencies. Company director Michael Brown, who prefers to go by the playful title ‘Creative Wizard’, reckons that his boutique agency is nothing like your standard run of the mill workplace. “We believe in having fun at work," says Michael as he ruffles one...