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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Real estate agents in the wider Betoota Shire Council have been put on notice today after another weekend of our town's young folks being ambushed by cashed-up grey-haired investors outbidding them by tens - if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's one thing that our town's socialist mayor, Councillor Keith Carton, has had enough...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Reserve Bank has issued a dire warning to the useless bags of human feces curdling in the summer sun that don't own a slice of the Australian Dream yet that now that the market has slightly cooled, now is the time to get in. Speaking to a group of fat old rich cunts with...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Our happy-go-lucky country's Bloke-In-Chief has raised his own eyebrows today in Canberra when he blamed this bloody Tasmanian snowstorm on the fact that the planet is getting warmer. "Must be this global warming, Mr Speaker," he shouted. "The people of Hobart woke up this morning to a snowstorm so I think it's time that the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A young man who recently decided to ruin his life by paying over a million dollars for an apartment in our town's fabled French Quarter says he's been seeing a lot of articles about the 'Great Resignation' recently. Which is curious, he says, because everyone who's purchased a property in the country recently won't be...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Prime Minister has been caught out telling fibs to the media again after telling them he had a pie for lunch despite being seen by multiple reporters eating a family-sized quiche at the Queens Terrace Cafe within Parliament House. By his own admission, Scott Morrison said it would be easy to confuse the two...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Deputy Prime Minister has passed on his congratulations to all his mates 'up the north west' who've got even more rain out of this last lot, something he says will finish off their crops nicely. Surrounded by reporters this afternoon in a Parliamentary Courtyard, Barnaby Joyce told all the city journos there that this...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Prime Minister has gone on the attack today, calling the Opposition leader Anthony Albanese a 'traitor'. Scott Morrison is trying to frame himself, in his own words, as being the most trustworthy and competent candidate for next year's election and to do that, he's hired a team made up of a group of some...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact One of the nation's favourite pastimes, speculating on property and over-leveraging themselves to the point where they're one rate rise away from the street, is one step closer to being properly regulated today as auctioneers in Sydney will be required to say 'gambling responsibly' before the bidding starts. Sydney, one of the world's largest open-air...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The nation's new peak scientific body, an out-sourced department of the CSIRO named BrainThink, has rebutted claims made by unpopular left-wing groups like the OECD and the Climate Change Performance Index that Australia is the worst-performing developed country in the world, telling media this morning in Canberra that we are actually the best. BrainThink is...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact One of the nation's greatest financial minds has told anyone who'll listen today that he's cracked the code when it comes to punting on the real estate market. "I'm buying when the bubble bursts, which will be soon," said French Quarter city worker, James Chambre. "When all those young people in Sydney and other capital...