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23 January, 2016 13:35 CHIP DOUGLAS | Entertainment | CONTACT The heart-warming tale of overcoming adversity was the central message last nights Australian Story - focusing on Wallabies superstar David Pocock and his family fleeing Zimbabwe in 2002 to seek the human right of asylum and safety in the Australian river city of Brisbane, QLD.  With the seemingly innocuous episode highlighting the Wallabies flanker's background, it...

23 January, 2016 10:35 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Banjo Paterson once wrote about the Barcoo shire in Western Queensland. The opening line of of his 1890 poem "A Bush Christening" gives profile to the district: "On the outer Barcoo where the churches are few, And men of religion are scanty" In the century and a half since this poem was written, nothing has changed. Other than...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull returned from his trip "Up North" over the weekend, with very little to talk about. "Richard Di Natale was right when he said God has forgotten about that awful, awful place - 1/3" the Prime Minister tweeted earlier today. "I mean, 2016 essentially ends at Gladstone, any further north than that and it's like I'm...

22 January, 2016 15:35 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The former editor-at-large of CollegeHumour Australia, New Yorker George Brohman (22), has been hired by The Sydney Morning Herald as the lead reporter covering the current US Election - it was confirmed today. His writing debuted on page 16 today with a story titled "Donald Trump Is Seriously Killing it RN" - where the media commentator known as "Bro"...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT After an early knock-off from work, Townsville man Clyde Barber has been forced to bag and take-away his usual five long-necks of XXXX Bitter from the local pub - Instead of drinking them there. Mr Barber says he did not feel welcome in the Kennedy Hotel's public bar this afternoon, after being met with a hostile reception when a...

19 February, 2016. 11:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact FIRST IT WAS THE Titanic II. Then it was Jurassic Park II. If you thought half billionaire Clive Palmer was done enriching the globe with his bold, brave and heroic feats of engineering and nostalgia, then you're wrong. A Broadway adaption of the 1995 runaway summer movie success, Billy Madison, is apparently in the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Melbourne woman, Shona Birkenstock (22) will be eating Cornflakes and Mi Goreng noodles for the next week, after purchasing 4 x pints of Melbourne Bitter for $14.90 each, at a Courtney Barnett gig over the weekend. "I don't even care. It was so worth it," says the young woman who is currently in her third year of a diploma...

16 February, 2016. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IN A MOVE TO BOTH unclutter our roads and give Australians a second chance at life, any cyclist caught without a helmet in NSW will be forced to enrol as an organ donor, says the health department. Motorcyclists and cyclists donate more organs than the rest of the population put together, but...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local kid Archie Sinclair is currently fantasising about different ways to burn his entire primary school down with everyone still inside it. These dark thoughts have been triggered by the classroom's extremely embarrassing response to him accidentally referring to his third-grade teacher, Ms Patterson, as 'mum'. What Archie (8) initially thought was a near-inaudible freudian slip, quickly turned into a...

15 January, 2016 10:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT In an interview with Radio National this morning, the leader of the Palmer United Party, Clive Palmer has revealed just how he is able to continue his day-to-day business and political endeavours while wearing a suit in the blazing Canberra heat. "It has been something I have had a lot of trial and error with,"...