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WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT A local Taxi Driver is being lauded with praise today, after managing to squeeze in some weather conversation before launching into his Uber rant. The 52-year-old man from the Flightpath District named Peter Lee managed to pull off the feat a short time ago as he picked a passenger up from Betoota Airport. The cabbie of nigh on 30 years made...

TRACEY BENDINGER | Culture | Contact Judging by Tim Bearfoot’s tenth consecutive Instagram story this afternoon, he is on a boat. The stories have been a mixture of selfie videos and poorly framed wider contextual shots of the boat and its wake as he cruises around somewhere of the Queensland coast. This influx of sharing has come as a surprise to his followers as the young...

TRACEY BENDINGER | Culture | Contact Jane Harris (@ImStillJaneyFromTheBlock) is in mourning today after her childhood dog, Chester, was fatally bitten by a snake while out exploring on her family’s hobby farm. This tragedy was made known by a heart-warming tribute she posted for her dead pet on social media, a one hundred percent human exclusive medium. ‘Goodbye Chester, you were more than a dog, you...

TRACEY BENDINGER | Culture | Contact “Do you have any gum?” Kayla Wakefield asked her Uber driver. “No, I don’t have any gum, but I do have some cognitive enhancement supplements,” replied the driver. Not pausing for Kayla’s response and seemingly without drawing breath, the driver launched into a well-rehearsed sales pitch. “Have you seen the movie Limitless? Wouldn’t it be great if there was a pill...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Australia's first Pentecostal Christian Prime Minister has today been accused of sticking his head in the sand and not identifying clearly anti-social behaviour within his own religious community. Critics say they cannot understand how, as one of the 300,000 Australians that adhere to the renewal movement within Protestant Christianity, Morrison failed to report the actions of a man he...

TRACEY BENDINGER | Culture | Contact Claire Harris has found herself wishing she kept her mouth shut this morning after a conversation with an old codger on the bus has just entered its third round of questioning. It’s understood Claire made her first mistake when she politely greeted the old man as she sat down next to him, it was this simple greeting that opened...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT A local city worker has been thrown into a state of confusion and self-doubt this afternoon. This week, the one and only Paul Kelly stopped by to play us some of his hits, debut a new song and answer a whole raft of questions, like how to make gravy and is every fucking city the same? The existential crisis came...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT Productivity was at an all-time low for local unemployed man Henry Stewart (20) who at approximately 11:30 am today invited a pair of charity door knockers inside to smoke a billy with him. With no job or other daytime commitments to fulfil, Stewart found himself with nothing to do other than decide whether he would spend his day committing...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT Pedestrians in Betoota’s Old City District have been treated to the music of Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar, courtesy of Liam McKenzie who played the tunes from his car because he wants you to know he’s a bit of a thinker actually. The start-up merchant has recently been concerned that his public image is that of an uptight suit without...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT Less than a week in and local dad and humble moustache wearer Omer Demir (55) is already sick of all these Movember moustache tourists. Having never played contact sport, Demir took to facial hair to prove his masculinity but opted for a moustache instead of a beard as he still wanted people to visit his rug shop without shaking...