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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT It has today been announced that one of the ABC's most experienced radio and television current affairs journalists, Tony Jones, will be immortalised in a rushed and poorly articulated official biography. Over the years, the award-winning journalist reported for Four Corners and Foreign Correspondent, and is the current host of Q&A and Lateline on Wednesday...

2 June, 2015. 11:15 IMRAN GASHKORI | Sports | [email protected] It has been reported that Collingwood President, Eddie McGuire has landed himself in hospital overnight while attempting to watch tribal war dances on YouTube. Four days into the most controversial news story in the history of Australian football, it is believed the overweight Catholic was surfing All Blacks Haka videos online, in an attempt to...

  CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Police raids of FIFA offices in Zurich and Miami last year resulted in some rather flattering revelations for the illegal migrant underclass of Qatar. That is, if it weren't for them - the barren desert Gulf state would not have been chosen to host the 2022 FIFA Soccer World Cup. "It is very flattering" says a dehydrated Nepalese worker...

28 May, 2015. 14:58 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact BOUYED BY HIS recent on-air stoush with Nationals deputy Barnaby Joyce, radio shock jock Kyle Sandilands is rumoured to be planning to run as an independent at the next federal election. The 43-year-old has reportedly set his sights on claiming his home seat, the Division of Bonner, in Brisbane's south east. The KISS FM star's hometown...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact AN ELDERLY COUPLE discovered the hard way last year that they were the only people in a small QLD town who were supporting the NSW Blues. Bethany and Ernest Page, both 89, retired to the sleepy outback Queensland town of Longreach in early 2014 after leaving behind the hustle and bustle of Roma. Having both grown up in...

25 May, 2015. 12:00 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected] Prime Minister Tony Abbott has dismissed the idea of a referendum on same-sex marriage in Australia, after Ireland voted in favour of amending the country's constitution on the issue.  Mr Abbott says that the shirt-lifting community were lucky enough to have the opportunity to vote during Eurovision - and that letting them vote...

24 May, 2015. 13:06 STANLEY WORTHINGTON | Sydney Correspondent | Contact AN UNSETTLING NEW movement has begun to gain traction across Australia as thousands of young people are beginning to find it morally acceptable to "do a poo on a night out". Traditionally, it was seen as a social faux pas to have to do a "number 2" when out drinking and...

22 May, 2015. 12:00 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected] Despite the imminent Netflix takeover, Australian television has had a blockbuster year so far - and they have worked hard for these numbers. Commercialising the deaths of thousands of young adults in 1914 is one example - But the promotional aspect of rugby league football is definitely the breadwinner. Since the 2015 ratings began,...

21 May, 2015. 15:06 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact FEDERAL and New South Wales police say they have shut down a national ketamine syndicate after charging a prominent country jockey, following raids across NSW. Dale Ellis Clarke, 24, was charged by police with drug and theft related offences overnight after it was revealed by an informant that Mr Clarke was the head of Australia's largest ketamine...

19 May, 2015. 11:05 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected] ROYAL FAMILY loyalists say they are not surprised that majority of the United Kingdom consider Prince Charles to be the worst thing to come out of the British Empire since smallpox. In a recent survey conducted by the BBC: 90% of respondents indicated that the believe the 66-year-old has a worse reputation than...