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24 March, 2015. 11:10 IMRAN GASHKORI | Sports Journalist | Contact In a world-first for Australian sport, it has been announced today that the governing body of Super Rugby are getting behind a trial program that would see star players able to house their own horses in stables provided by their club. First off the rank is the out-of-form ACT Brumbies, with $20,000 being...

    CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact "I'm not the girlfriend type," says a half-drunk Eddie. The north-Betoota man sips from his schooner of XXXX Bitter and continues. "I prefer the 'one-night' kind of romances... I sure as fuck don't like talking in bed" "I spend most of my weekends getting on the grog at the pub, usually I do pretty well with the...

23 March, 2015. 12:10 ERROL PARKER |Editor-at-large| Contact A BETOOTA PASTORALIST has reportedly taxied home in her light aircraft after being told not to fly home by police. Local stalwart Sarah "Milo" Greenwalker, of Blackbulloo Station, was told quietly by authorities not to pilot her aircraft home after drinking at the Betoota Hotel over the weekend. Much to the chagrin of Betoota Police constable Sam Pulver,...

25 March, 2015. 17:01 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THE SHARE PRICE of Qantas has grown 1.5% despite news of another aviation disaster - bucking the worldwide trend. More disturbingly, the Australian airline's share price has continued to forge ahead since hitting an all-time low in the months leading up to the Malaysian Airlines MH370 disappearance. Airlines around the world have all felt...

20 March, 2015. 12:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact After promising to be a "Prime Minister for Aboriginal Affairs", Tony Abbott has stubbornly persevered through universal condemnation from public figures of all political stripes over his claim that it's not the taxpayers' job to subsidise Indigenous Australians' "lifestyle choices". Abbott's critics are widespread, ranging from Indigenous lawyer, Noel Pearson - all...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact These National Parks are the postcards that Australia sells to the rest of the world. They may seem like the perfect place to visit on your next holiday. However, nearly every major national park in the country has had a handful of one-star ratings on various travel sites, ranging from trip Advisor to Yelp. You might...

SPONSORED CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Michelle Bridges is 44-years-old and doesn't believe in excuses. A hard-but-fair Australian fitness guru, who understands that true happiness can only be found through consistent physical punishment and guilt-driven dieting - a personal mission statement that has made her millions of dollars. With the international roll-out of her ever popular 12 Week Body Transformation (12WBT) program growing traction overseas,...

18 March, 2015. 11:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact   A spokesperson for the exiled founder of Wikileaks.org has today revealed an ultimatum. Julian Assange, the creator and curator of the international whistle-blower website, has promised to "cause havoc" if he is not given a safe passage to a Caribbean Island of his choosing - from his current hideout in the Ecuadorian embassy...

17 March, 2015. 15:01 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact FLOWERS AND TRIBUTES are being left near the entrance of the New Zealand High Commission in London today as thousands of mourners stop to remember the death of British manners in Auckland this week. British-born entertainers Natalia Kills and Willy Moon have been criticised internationally for their "profoundly un-British" behaviour that has...

17 March, 2015. 11:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Former Palmer United Party senator Jacqui Lambie has kicked things off with yet another controversial tirade, this time regarding her plans for an independent Tasmania. Her "dream for Tasmania" would see the island leaving Australia as a federal state, and her leaving the Australian senate as well. In yet another shocking and confusing senate...