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FRANKIE DeGROOT | Local News | Contact As the power point faceplates were fitted and the fridge was wheeled back in, Mum and Dad’s kitchen reno was almost complete. Soon the new kitchen would be churning out the same food the old kitchen did, but with fancy garnishes to bring the food up to the high standard set by the Carrera marble benchtops and...

EFFIE BATEMAN | BRISBANE |CONTACT Feeling that all too familiar pit of fleeting despair, a nervous Georgia Statham finds herself pausing on her way out the door. Tonight should be an exciting occasion - it’s her third date with Jason, after all. But after sloughing her way through half a bottle of prosecco, Georgia finds that the butterflies in her stomach have quickly...

EFFIE BATEMAN | BRISBANE |CONTACT Becky Nates is not a little girl anymore. Well, she doesn’t think she is anyway. The fourteen-year old Betoota Grove student has embarked on her first modern teenage rite of passage - a morbid obsession with a glamorous Hollywood star who died before her time. Her brother Nate, had just experienced his own rite of passage only one...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A local 38-month-old completely lost his mind this morning in a popular French Quarter cafe in a touching tribute to his Dad, who's celebrating his third Father's Day today. Quincy Ryder, 36, received the tantrum just after 11 am in front of friends, family and perfect strangers after he had to explain to his son Dakota...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Australians could be blocked from sharing news content on Facebook and Instagram, in Zuckerberg's most recent flex against Australian policymakers. Facebook has issued the threat in response to a proposed law that would see Facebook and Google forced to pay Australian media organisations for hosting their content. In a world-first attempt to govern how media companies deal with big tech,...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT The nation has been left a little confused overnight after Wikileaks founder Julian Assange randomly popped up out of nowhere rabbiting on about changes to superannuation. This comes despite the fact his full extradition hearing is set to take place in 6 days time, to determine whether he will be sent to the US to face espionage charges...

FRANKIE DeGROOT | Local News | Contact When local agency man Barry Mellish injured his back in a freak Spirograph accident in 2014, his family thought they would all be in for some major changes to make his life more comfortable. “The doctor took an x-ray but it was so graphic he had to show it to me in black and white so it...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Former Footy Show panellist and renowned loudmouth Sam Newman is being “actively investigated” by police for encouraging Melbourne residents to protest against Stage Four lockdown. With Melbourne's daily rates of COVID-19 cases dropping dramatically over the last fortnight, Sam Newman and his jolly gang of halfwit anti-lockdown 'personalities' have ramped up their white-anting of public health and safety mesures...

FRANKIE DeGROOT | Local News | Contact In an unusual move, WAM Clothing, the non-indigenous business that owns the rights to the aboriginal flag, has sent a Cease and Desist letter to the Sun for breach of exclusive licence.  Designed in 1971 by Harold Thomas, an Aboriginal artist, the Sun is represented by the yellow circle in the centre of the flag, whilst the red...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Pauline Hanson's One Nation have today declared it might be time to just let all of our vulnerable homeless, elderly and immunocompromised citizens die off - as COVID-19 becomes a bit too much of an inconvenience for the powerbrokers of Australia's far-right conspiracist minor party. The Victorian branch has this week done exactly what everyone expected them to do,...