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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT As Ireland and the UK make moves to temporarily close down pubs to limit social interaction, Australia is still about a week or so off from really taking this global pandemic seriously. While Australia has banned crowds at footy matches - the Prime Minister is still encouraging the public to continue going to church and rush to the shops...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT As of 24 hours ago, The Home Affairs Minister has joined a long list of vulnerable detainees in several isolated offshore processing centres located in the oceans surrounding northern Australia. The Member For Dickson announced on Friday evening that he had tested positive for coronavirus, after being tested earlier that day. He was immediately transferred to the Christmas Island...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Prime Minister Scotty From Marketing has today vowed to attend the two very important calender events scheduled in his diary this weekend, despite coming in direct contact with a Coronavirus sufferer in the last few days. Yesterday, the Prime Minister said the Government would be recommending all non-essential gatherings of more than 500 people should be cancelled, starting Monday. The...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Sports racing fans and drivers are raging today after learning that the pussy ass Victorian government finally crumbled and decided to implement measures that stop people from dying in preventable ways. The Australian Formula One Grand Prix has been cancelled due to the coronavirus, an hour after the Victorian premier says no spectators will attend. This comes as the McLaren...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The disastrous COVID-19 continues to spread right across Australia at the exact rate predicted by the medical and virology experts that no one is listening to because their solutions will force businesses to compromise slightly. Of the 140 confirmed coronavirus cases in Australia, 78 are in NSW — 34 of whom were returned overseas travellers. A Canberra man in...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT As of this morning, voting for the Triple J Hottest 100 of the Decade has finally closed, which means that the powerful puppeteers at our youth public broadcaster radio station already know who has won it. Not that the public didn't know either. Despite never winning a Hottest 100 due to the 'one-hit-wonder factor' that has seen the likes of...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT As the Coronavirus scare continues to cause widespread panic in the suburbs, it seems Australia's loudest right-wing xenophobe has been forced to stop pretending she cares about women covering their faces in public. In 2017, The leader of Australia’s populist far-right One Nation party was panned by both sides of politics for entering the Senate chamber wearing a black burqa Hanson caused...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Similar to the time our Prime Minister holidayed in Hawaii for 12 days during unprecedented Summer bushfires before Christmas, Australians have once again become the laughing stock of world news. The relentless storming of supermarkets to stock up on the most obscure household items possible has been ridiculed right around the world. From sleeping bags, to toilet paper to...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Coronavirus pandemic may be causing a postponement of Coachella, SXSW, The Geneva Motor show and a shitload of Trump's pre-election rallies, but God's Winter Games is refusing to budge on the new outbreak. After a relatively quiet off-season, and a very loud political correctness debate surrounding the appearance of people that aren't white men in the official promo...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Sports journalism in Australia has this week sunk to levels lower than Australian music journalism, as failing newspapers and TV stations scour the news cycle for some sort of outrage. This comes as an almost comically unaccomplished but somehow high-profile sports reporter, from a media company that has not adapted well to the invention of the internet, has this...