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NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian is reportedly experience her 'greyhound moment' as the tide of public opinion and party support turns on her plan to completely rebuild two fully functional stadium. After months of widespread dismay in and out of Parliament - and in and out of her own party, the Berejiklian Government has spent the last given up attempting to explain...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT When someone completely uproots their entire career and social life and moves to a lesser known beach near Byron Bay, it usually isn't that big of a concern. They could be a rich divorcee from the city who doesn't need to work again and likes the smell of incense. They could be an early twenties girl who transferred her university...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Following the September death of 117-year-old Violet Mosse Brown, the oldest person in the world, the title has now been handed down to Japanese supercentenarian, Nabi Tajima, who is also 117. Tajima was born on August 4, 1900, in the town of Kikai, Kagoshima Prefecture, and has had her age confirmed by Guiness World Records. She currently lives in a home...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT After round one of the 2018 NRL season, one thing that is not lacking is on-field excitement. Golden point wins, big hits and interceptions were littered all throughout the exhilarating weekend that was. However, it has become painfully clear that, in an effort to remain fluid between transfers, many of the young men are lacking style and character. In a...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Sunday night happy hour at the Lord Kidman Hotel was wasted on a prominent Southern expat last night, as he insisted on remaining culturally Victorian and making the bartender bend over to get the old pint glasses out. Across Queensland and New South Wales, the pint glass is only really popular with Victorians and other Southerners, except for...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The shell of Olivia Anderson (22) is trying her hardest to appear as though she is a functioning human this morning. Anderson’s weekend was hedonistic, like many other young millennials these days, and her body is paying the price on the first day of the working week. After discovering an empty kitchen, the part-time Engineering student thought she saw an...

TRACEY BENDINGER | Culture | CONTACT Cars crashing into houses, and the subsequent hysteria it causes, has been Channel 9’s bread and butter since the early 70’s when they copied Betootan journalists who reported on old Willy Tisk ploughing his HT Ute into Mrs. Freeman’s Betoota Grove 2 bedroom home - a stroke of genius that spread like wildfire and changed reporting as we...

TRACEY BENDINGER | Culture | CONTACT It’s 4:30pm and the girls have been on the rosé since midday. The heels have come off, the makeup has soaked in and Jessica Lavender (25) has just taken over the AUX cord. Jessica, who once dated west Betoota’s most successful hip-hop artist, considers herself a bit of a rap aficionado and any chance she gets, she likes to...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT Local erratic and full-time social smoker, Ella Gibson (44) reckons the reason she’s a bit out there is due to her ADHD, a condition which at the time or writing she has not been diagnosed with. Known for taking board games too seriously, listening to music without headphones on and encouraging binge drinking to the point of alcoholism, Gibson...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT With an estimated two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef being devastated by severe coral bleaching, optimistic scientists say there is hope the reef is just going through a belated Eminem phase. Marine biologist Stan Mitchell (52) states recent studies of the reef suggest Australian poluters might not have such a guilty conscience as originally thought, with the possibility the...