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8 May, 2016 10:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has today visited the Governor-General Peter Cosgrove to ask for a double-dissolution election. He then launched the nation’s longest election campaign since the 1960s, culminating with a July 2 poll. With the current Government's pre-election promises currently under the spotlight, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says the path is clear for the "greatest years...

8 May, 2016 10:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Residents of Melbourne's outer suburbs have today insisted that the outsiders perception of the Victorian capital is nothing but a result of good marketing and incessant instagramming. Every year Victoria’s population grows by the size of a packed MCG. One hundred thousand new people are added to the state every 12 months. 92 per cent of those new...

7 May, 2016. 18:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact KNOWING FULL WELL HE shouldn't be preparing to go out 'clubbing' tonight with the boys, one 27-year-old is throwing caution to the wind and doing it anyway. Not because he's broke or just plain boring - it's because he knows he'll be talking to members of his extended family tomorrow after what's...

7 May, 2016. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IN LIGHT OF RECENT REMARKS by a leading figure of Australia's entertainment industry, the organisers of the TV Week Logie Awards has decided to issue the trophy this year with an optional paper bag to go over the top of it. It comes after revelations that many winners of the prestigious gong have...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact None of the members of local bikie gang the Betoota Brotherhood MC have the heart to tell Sgt Matt Southwell, of the Queensland Special Police Service, that they are very well aware of the fact that he is obviously an undercover cop. Mr Southwell was assigned to infiltrate the outlaw motorcycle club two weeks ago, and is...

4 May, 2016. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IN A RARE LAPSE OF judgement, former treasurer turned ambassador Joe Hockey was seen throwing a television off a fourth story balcony yesterday as Scott Morrison delivered his first address on the nation's chequebook. The Dick Smith brand 52-inch plasma was about to receive a National Heritage seal for being an exceptionally...

4 May, 2016 13:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT In case you haven't heard, last night our Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison handed down his first budget, unveiling a plan to save billions by cracking down on multi-national tax avoidance and shaking up the superannuation system. While the 2016 budget comes across as far less psychopathic than anything Joe Hockey put on the table, it is still far...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT BUDGET 2017 With all this talk of tax thresholds, financial and fiscal affairs, foreign affairs and economic aid, general research, and superannuation - local man, Beau Haydon says he can't believe the price of smokes are going up again. "It's rubbish mate, they are emptying our wallets and then they'll be cheering when we drop dead," says the 35-year-old smoke detector...

INGRID DOULTON OAM | Let's Talk Sense | CONTACT THE 21-year-old female asylum seeker who set herself on fire on Nauru Island has arrived in Australia, as she remains in a critical condition with extensive burns. This is the second case of it's kind, and hopefully, it doesn't go the same way as the last one. We can only hope this victim of self-harm,...

2 May, 2016 13:45 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local man, Theo Fukinakakis, is comfortable enough in his status as a natural-born Australian citizen, to vocally oppose the human right of seeking asylum in his country, despite the fact his mother and late father arrived in Australia by boat in 1952. "Mate, its different. They did it the right way, moit" Between mouthfuls of Skouras...