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TRACEY BENDINGER | Culture | Contact While droves of people are begging for an end to Coronavirus updates, one local graph lover is bucking the trend and actually dreading the day the spread of the virus is no longer covered 24/7 by the news. Pete Buchanin is what’s known as a graphodisiac, someone who gets aroused by graphs, and charts to a lesser extent. It’s...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton is back from his deathbed and doing what he does best and feeling like a victim of the opinions of academics. Deputy Chief Health Officer Dr Annaliese van Diemen has come under pressure for a tweet on the 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook's arrival in Australia. Dr van Diemen, whose own name sounds a...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A recent report by a hospitality industry body has found that the pure euphoria that will be triggered by our pubs re-opening is impossible to measure. With today's news that hotels and restaurants in Sydney and Melbourne could return to trade as soon as two weeks from now, guarded excitement has pinballed around both New South Wales and...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Ruby Princess special inquiry has heard that the situation on sister ship Diamond Princess - quarantined in Japan in February due to a COVID-19 outbreak - had alerted crew to the risks of the virus. Close to 1000 cases of coronavirus have since been linked to the Ruby Princess, and over 21 deaths, making it the single...

INGRID DOULTON | Lady Writer | CONTACT Betoota Grove woman, Bindi Hansen (32) was at breaking point earlier today, after yet another isolation mood swing that she can't understand or explain. Like many Australians locked inside their homes as part of the COVID-19 pandemic social distancing measures, Bindi can go two to three days at a time thinking that she actually doesn't mind living in...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local dad, Big John McMichael (55, Betoota City Limits) has today cracked. He's done what he never thought he'd do and picked up one of the controllers for his son's PlayBox or whatever it's bloody called. Even the new announcements to role back COVID-19 social distancing measures by both the QLD, WA and NSW state governments have done little to...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Government officials have today been surprised by an early rush of citizens downloading their controversial new COVIDsafe app The app was released at 6:00pm last night and by 10:30pm 1 million Australians had downloaded it. While this initial momentum is a good sign, they still need 40 per cent of Australians to voluntarily download and use it to be effective...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT With public services, marches and other commemorative gatherings made impossible by coronavirus, Australians are being encouraged to commemorate ANZAC Day from home this year. Australians can gather in their driveways, on their balconies or in their windows at 6am to listen to a streamed Dawn Service from the Australian War Memorial and hold up a candle or light. However,...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A recent report by a source that no one is going to fact-check has today found the biggest public health risk posed by the 5G network is it's blisteringly fast download speeds — which promise up to 1 gigabyte per second. Medical experts based in the bedrooms of teenagers in Macedonia and Crimea claims that, on top of everything...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local slob, Keegan Lawson (30) has been in self-isolation longer than most people. As the floor manager of a usually busy steakhouse, Keegs was one of the first wave of workers told to go home as the government began ramping up social distancing measures. Given the fact that 400g Angus t-bones don't keep that well in a cooler box...