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4 July, 2016. 17:35 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Despite being a high-ranking ALP 'executioner' - Former Deputy Prime Minister and the Member For Grayndler, Anthony Albanese MP is secretly hoping that this current election will result in a majority LNP Government, it has been confirmed. After getting a taste of the power as Rudd's Deputy, 'Albo' was initially hoping that Prime Minister...

5 July, 18:01 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact ONE OF THE POSSIBLE OUTCOMES of this year's election is that we might be heading back to the polls sooner than we think. Australians are facing the prospect of having to cast two federal votes this year after last weekend's result has done nothing except make the whole situation worse. However, news that this might...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Former Senator Nick Xenophon has today been filmed smashing up several pokie machines in an Adelaide hotel, after reading recent poll data that shows him as the number one favourite to take out the South Australian election. Despite the fact that he had previously been in the Australian Senate for nine years and won a record vote...

4 July, 2016. 13:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact SWATHES OF CHILDREN ARE receiving counselling and thousands of other ordinary Australians were "extremely creeped out" by footage broadcast by the Seven Network that showed Oscar Pistorius walking around on his nubs. Originally aired on Seven's investigative journalism program Sunday Night, the highly confronting images of the disgraced athlete sent a shockwave...

3 July, 2016. 19:09 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact RETREATING TO HIS PARENTS HOME on Queensland's methamphetamine coast, former MP Wyatt Roy has locked himself in his bedroom to contemplate life while listening to Coldplay. Faced with having to re-enter society as a normal working human being, Roy says he's not quite ready. "How can Bob Katter have a 10% swing toward...

2 July, 2016. 17:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact AS THE SUN SETS ON another ordinary election day, one young Melbourne greens campaigner is facing the prospect of having to catch the tram home in Birkenstocks. Only problem is it's very cold. Kate Lewis said she had a bit of a brain snap when she pulled on her German riding boots this...

1 July, 2016. 13:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IF YOU THINK THERE'S ANY bad blood inside the Liberal Party, think again. After months of radio silence, Abbott Treasurer Joe Hockey has come in from the cold on the last day of campaigning and officially thrown his support behind Malcolm Turnbull. Tensions between Hockey and Turnbull have thawed recently as the North...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT In a new low for democracy, local daughter Amelia Standen (22) has essentially just doubled her 60-year-old father's voting power. After managing to avoid ingesting any form of political media during the last six weeks of intense campaigning by both major Australian political parties, Amelia has taken several moments to switch off" from social media and ask her conservative...

31 June, 2016. 11:35 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Blues coach Laurie Daley has today announced the newest inclusion to the NSW Origin management team. Former Olympian Rower Sally Robbins, has been hired by the NSWRL to 'help bring about a bit of ticker' in the most unsuccessful Australian representative sports team of this millenium. Daley says Robbins has proven experience in 'having a...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Queensland's Gold Coast has been praised today by both minority groups and local politicians for managing to last 5 months without a video surfacing of a racist public transport incident. Gold Coast mayor, Tom Tate, says he is very proud of his city for not making national headlines over picking on random strangers on a...