IN-Focus

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact There will be no Lamborghini. No beach house. No weekend getaways in the private jet, nor models to occupy the Gulfstream's plush leather seats. Instead, only broken dreams and a seemingly dead-end job in a field that will cease to exist once next year's doomsday recession takes hold. Today has been a bad day for Danny Madigan. Not because the...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | Contact Channel Nine has confirmed today that they will be renaming their iconic and long-running anthology brand the ‘Wide World Of Sports’ (WWOS) this summer. Nine’s WWOS has rivalled Channel 7’s sporting coverage for decades but is now set to be renamed the ‘Wide World Of Reality Television,’ (WWORT) with executives at the company having already admitted that it doesn’t quite have the same ring to it. After...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT More than 100 MPs and members are in Sydney for the Liberal Party's annual federal council which is expected to be the last before the next federal election. The right-wing political classes have already announced several new positions aimed at dealing with any detractors or commentators who might bring their ruling party into disrepute. Liberal Party members have called...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A popular local grazier has had to come to terms with the fact that all the knowledge he's gained during his farmer career is probably going to die with him after his youngest son revealed he doesn't want to follow in his father's footsteps. At 68-years-old, Miles Culter had entertained the idea of retirement in the coming years -...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Fresh from complaining about his slightly overcooked $10 rump last night down the Gibbering Elf Club in the Old City District, a perennially-hard-done-by-sexagenarian-property-owner knew he would have trouble sleeping after the unpleasant verbal altercation he had with the bistro manager. But it wasn't because he called a 19-year-old girl earning $19.21 an hour a 'simple...

JAMIE HOTTAKE | Outrage | CONTACT It’s fair to say 2018 is probably the worst time ever to be a marginalised minority and it boils down to one simple reason: Racism. Now before you go mad in the comment section pissing on about that time during uni that I allegedly threw a cat out of a window for a student film and shouldn’t be getting paid...

TRACEY BENDINGER | Society | Contact It’s Saturday afternoon at the French Quarter's hottest day club and the girls just ordered another 3 bottles of rose. “Babe, I love you” one girl was heard saying. “Nawww, no I love you!” Her friend replied. Reports from other patron’s state that two women then embraced in a sloppy and prolonged hug. It’s said that the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Ouchies were had big time at the Gallagher residence last night in Betoota Heights as young Brett Gallagher received a traditional smiley burn on his 18th birthday - ushering in the responsibilities of manhood. In the backyard of number 34 Rockwood Road, the 18-year-old's best mate Davo called for hush around 4pm yesterday afternoon to...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact With just a minced California roll and two glasses of pinot noir sloshing around inside him, a Betoota Heights car salesman agreed to attend the theatre last night on short notice with his new flame. He says he can get you a great price on a new Landcruiser and offer you a great deal on...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A popular Hebel-area farmer's son has lashed out at his father this morning after it's been revealed that he accidentally purchased the wrong model Mercedes Benz ute that he'd been asking for his birthday. Gavin Tucker, of Tucker Queensland Cotton Pty Ltd, said he instructed his father to get him a 'new' Merc ute to...