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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The NSW State Government has suffered yet another indignity this morning after the body of disgraced Cardinal George Pell was accidentally taken to St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney instead of a landfill site on the edge of town. The mix-up has left many mourners angry and confused after they lined the streets of the Erskine...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has had to both thank but distance himself from outgoing Liberal MP Brad Hazzard, who today offered to martyr himself in the foyer of ClubsNSW headquarters in Sydney for the greater good of the state. In some sort of twisted homage to the elderly citizens of Japan offering to clean up...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact In the hills surrounding Lake Betoota, it's not uncommon to see boats lining the streets beyond the parking signs and meters. Land-poor boat owners say that's as good as it gets, as proper boat storage or moorings just aren't affordable anymore in the Simpson Desert due to the influx of COVID-related interest in marine leasure. It's...

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...