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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT After a big day on the cans, a proud Brisbane man has drawn a line in the sand, and refused to lie about who he is anymore. Dominic Hawthorne (31), a Moorooka-based corporate AGM planner has decided he's sick of pretending to be someone else, and has made of point of telling the truth to a bouncer in Fortitude...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Short of physically striking her own children, local mum Deborah Maley has taken things about as far as you can when it comes to the 'hard but fair' tactics of a suburban disciplinarian. The drive up the coast was supposed to be a joyful experience, as mum had promised a trip to the shops to look at new video...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT It's the biggest day of the year for Australian racing, Melbourne Cup. The race that stops the nation. With over 15 million bets expected to go through machines, apps and bookmakers fingers, it's not often acknowledged how this national tradition benefits other industries. Clagg Glue, the iconic arts and crafts company has a truck idling out the back of the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Since 1861, The Melbourne Cup has been officially recognised as perhaps the only race that draws the attention of both the country and city, racing enthusiasts and non-enthusiasts (mosty) alike. It's also Christmas come early for the nation's bookmakers who are presented with a cattle-yard jammed with seriously inexperienced punters, most of whom bet on funny names and nice...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A sun-kissed vagrant that bathes in public toilets and charges his phone at McDonalds is still a dreamboat, according to local girls. After three years of unemployment, spent bouncing around headlands in a non-roadworthy van that he bought from his uncle with an interest free-loan from his grandmother, local surfie Jake Garbs is more desirable than ever. Hundreds of his...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | Contact After nine-months unpaid interning, Aaron Loxton (22) has taken the first creative liberty of his new career as a junior copywriter by editing his Tinder bio to state he is a ‘writer.’ “It’s basically the truth though. I write ads, that’s no different to writing a book or a screenplay which I also do anyway.” While the lion share of...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A downtrodden and exploited member of the nation's oppressed white middle class has today raised a proverbial fist salute in defiance of the elitist tyrants that live to dehumanise him and ridicule his place in Australian society. Eric Bernabbott (62) was originally not going to play any part in the current Australian same-sex marriage postal vote, due to a...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT In great news for Queenslanders and and a few suburbs in the Southern cities, the jacaranda trees are back in bloom. The jacaranda is a genus of 49 species of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to tropical and subtropical regions of Mexico, Central America, South America, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica and the Bahamas - but have been intensively introduced in North New South Wales and the Queensland Great-South-East. The purple flower of the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A new mother from Betoota's rapidly gentrifying light industrial district, Betootaville, has made it clear to her parents, husband and friends that her child will not be lying in anything that cannot withstand hollow-point sniper bullets or a military drone strike. The young mother, Olivia, has told her husband to leave everything to do with baby-related accessories to her,...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A group of local dad's in Betoota's inner-city have spent months detesting the fact that their partners and children feel the need to recognise and celebrate an obscurely religious American holiday. Halloween, or All Hallows Evening, as it is known by the religious institutions that created it, is widely believed to have originated from ancient Celtic harvest festivals. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating,...