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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The ageing terrace house dwellers that control what we local content we see and hear in this country are happy to keep working well into their 70s today after the Federal Government turned the arts funding tap back on after a decade of neglect. Despite promises from the Arts Minister Tony Burke that this $300m...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact February is the shortest and least favourite month for Australian sporting fans and is a notorious sporting doldrum that sits between the end of the summer sport season and the beginning of the footy. The Big Bash final is this weekend, leaving three weekends without any sport to watch until the NRL and AFL...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Microsoft founder and vaccine proponent Bill Gates put on a brave face last night at the Australian Open as No Jab Novak stormed home to claim his 10th Australian Open title. The Serbian is now level with Rafa Nadal on 22 Grand Slam titles, setting up a showdown on the Spaniard's home at Roland...

DR CHET SPEVENS | Finance Expert | CONTACTAs the third most popular financial advice guru in Australia - behind the Barefoot Investor and Davo down the pub who knows a thing or two about horses - I’ve helped countless Aussies get up and out of debt and in control of their finances. And investing in the ASX is one way to do...

RORY SALAZAR | Finance | ContactA levitating landlord from Betoota Grove claims his hovering airiness can be put down to the inner peace he has found after a great deal of suffering. The enlightened landlord, Money Bags (50) as he is known to his peers, looked a picture of serenity as he levitated on the spot. The inner peace apparently comes after Bags hiked up...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactAs the nation prepares to flock down to the beach to celebrate the hottest 100 this saturday, the Cancer Council has come forth with a new campaign that encourages the correct sun safety practices - by utilising the help of your ginger mates to ensure every last bit of skin is protected in a three inch layer of...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACTIn what may be the strangest TikTok trend yet, a series of weird pay-to-watch TikToks have been released and are going for like two hours. Launching in 2017, TikTok is a video sharing social media app that you have already heard about whether you like it or not. In the past five years TikTok has been the paramount platform driving...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact In the dying abyss of Facebook, a former schoolmate of a Betoota Heights man has emerged from the content doldrums to tell the world that he's really into his ice baths now. So much so, Coyne Peckham is starting to let the practice of plunging oneself into frigid water define him as a person. His former...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The greatest thing to happen to air travel in this country for years took place today as new airline Bonza took to the skies for the first time. A special flight for media and invited guests took to the skies over Queensland this afternoon, which gave the special passengers a small taste of the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Despite local rents being at an all-time high and leasing agents replacing bankers as the first ones against the wall when society collapses, a Betoota Heights couple has celebrated finally getting a lease this week against the odds after nearly a month of living in a serviced apartment. "We're the lucky ones," say Laney...