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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Everyone's favourite purveyor of frozen deserts has announced today that they've called in the administrators because everyone has gotten too flash for them. With the rise of culinary television, shows like My Kitchen Rules, MasterChef and the Great Australian Bake Off, the average Australian's taste for artisanal sweets has grown while demand for your traditional...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The nation's peak scientific body today has released some grim news for those that wonder about things more than others. Researchers and academics from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have been hard at work attempting to answer the question of how the common kitchen kettle knows when to turn itself off after...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactThe world has this week urged actor Will Smith to please, PLEASE buy his wife/non-wife Jada Pinkett Smith a moleskin diary for her birthday, after being collectively forced to hear every sordid details from their marriage over the past few years, including Jada’ dalliance with her sons best friend, her obsession with former lover Tupac Shakur, and now the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact One of the smoothbrain city boys that took up the game of golf over the pandemic says being a leftie is makes finding quality used clubs much harder because only a small percentage of players globally do it in the inverted fashion. Recently retrenched LinkedIn account manager Spencer McCullum explained to our reporter that he's...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Singer Kamahl has indicated that he will now support the Yes vote at last weekend's referendum to amend the constitution to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as the original inhabitants of the Australian continent and form a basic advisory panel to consult only on issues that affect decisions that impact upon their way...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Foreign-owned conglomerate Uber has warned the Albanese Government's sweeping industrial relations reforms aimed at giving "gig economy" workers the same rights as other workers could see the cost of their service skyrocket. That would mean many of the nation's fat and lazy would either have to part with more money for their to-the-door Pad Thai...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A French Quarter commis politely declined the exceptionally generous offer from the head chef to enjoy a leftover burger tp enjoy on his break, opting instead to eat a small bowl of cold chips while he listens to deep house music at a very high volume in the public bar. Chef Dominic Munro was seen...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A Betoota Heights sole trader has come across the Betoota Shire Council's road team out on the Durie Development Road this morning, and he's made a mental note to come back this evening with a length of someone else's good hose and a few jerry cans. Darryn Hartog is coming back because he's planning to...

DR CHET SPEVENS | Finance Expert | CONTACTHot-shot finance execs who follow me on YouTube and Instagram know that every decision an important person like us makes can send ripples through global markets. And it’s very important people like you and me that you need to have around you at all times to not only make you a more effective finance hot-shot,...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Pop-soul crooner Kamal played a show at Betoota Heights Workers Club last night to a sell out crowd, treating the audience to showtune favourite's such as "Wonderful World", "Chattanooga Choo Choo" and "Adam's Song". As the singer went to get breakfast this morning at the French Quarter's Le Pisse Dans Ma Poche Cafe on...