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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The white wine industry in Western QLD has been booming, after it was revealed that a camp of ringers in Queensland's Channel Country have only been drinking Sauvignon Blanc for the last 12 months. It is believed the interest in grape lager originated after the young fellas made a decision last year to stop4 drinking any of Australia’s highest-selling...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A club that hosted a grown man pissing in his own mouth only 18 months ago has today said that cocaine is a no-no, particularly when doing it in the days after their first ever premiership. Premiership-winning Cronulla Sharks fullback, Ben Barba, has been sacked from the club following a positive drugs test. The Sharks have released Barba from his...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A Robina High School student has today criticised Jarryd Hayne's 'lame' taste in pornography after explicit images were displayed on project screen tethered to the NRL superstar's iPhone, during a school presentation on cyber security. Hayne's phone was connected to a public wi-fi network displaying his browsing history as part of the lesson, when lewd images appeared on the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has today announced that Brisbane cabbie and former refugee, Aguek Nyok, is 'fine to stay' in Australia, after proving himself as a brave Aussie. Mr Nyok will be nominated for a bravery award by the Queensland premier after helping save 11 people caught in the senseless arson attack on a Brisbane bus that killed driver Manmeet...

2 November, 2016 12:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Despite the fact that he invented the concept of mandatory and indefinite detention for Asylum Seekers, Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has launched a scathing criticism of the Turnbull Government's "attempt to appease the mad right" of the Liberal Party. On Sunday, the Coalition said it would introduce new laws into Parliament that would introduce a lifetime...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The 2014 death of Japanese racehorse, Admire Rakti, and the subsequent post-race death of Araldo who was spooked by a kid during the parade - marked the second straight year a horse has died after the Melbourne Cup. It was the tragedy of this event that sparked a never-before seen and completely unrealistic campaign by GetUp, calling for...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Every single TAROCASH outlet in Southern Victoria has today sold out of white leather shoes, lime green ties and several styles of grey-coloured shirts with black buttons, a spokesman from the retailer confirmed hours ago. It is understood that the affordable menswear giant has put in an emergency order for up to eight different products, as the annual pre-Melbourne...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local media buyer, Samuel Madden, is currently enduring the unbearable pain of feeling a plastic bag of poorly cut cocaine burn through his trousers. It's a problem that he is familiar with, and one that he knows how to solve quite quickly. The only issue he has at this very moment is whether or not he is in...

26 October, 2016. 23:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact WHILE BERNARD SALT CONCLUDED that Millenials are being wedged out of the property market because of their smashed avocado penchants, extreme centrist senator Nick Xenophon has released a study into the gaming industry that concluded that "gambling is a tax on stupid people." Speaking this afternoon from Canberra, Xenophon said that the...

  CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT When it comes to their 28-year-old son, William, Jill and Tony Sutcliffe haven't got much to report on. Other than the fact he is still living in Byron Bay - after three years of extremely casual employment. While having dinner with some close family friends in a heritage timber Queenslander house in the middle of Adelaide East St...