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  21 July, 2015. 17:52 CLANCY OVERELL | Sports Editor | Contact Senator Jacqui Lambie has revealed the gruelling personal torment she had to endure prior to an appearance on ABC's Q&A last night. The Tasmanian single mother-turned politician says she spent weeks preparing herself for the very likely possibility of saying something stupid in front of talkback radio personality, Alan Jones. "I was ready to go, but god...

21 July, 2015. 10:52 IMRAN GASHKORI | Sports Editor | Contact THE increasingly tall-poppy-cutting Australian public had been baying for Shane Watson’s blood for months, maybe even years. The selectors have finally answered the call, dumping the batting all-rounder for the second Ashes Test, but not everyone is celebrating. "After a brief hiatus from it all, we came to realise Shane was nowhere to be seen,...

July 20, 2015. 10:10 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact SHOCKING footage of Mick Fanning fending off a great white shark in Jeffreys Bay, South Africa, has made waves around the world. The Australian cultural activist movement, Reclaim Australia, has made an official statement this morning surrounding the incident. The movement has stated, that current increase in shark attacks on Australian beaches...

16 July, 2015. 15:06 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact DESPITE VEHEMENT PROTESTS and an online petition, Frances Abbott's portrait of her father has been hung along side the Archibald Prize finalists at the Art Gallery of NSW today. Late last month, the trustee board of the famous art prize made an exception to all submission deadlines, due to the young creative...

J.P. ELLIOT | Western Australia | Contact A Perth man has made the shocking discovery that his wife of 8 years has been secretly working as a "high-class" escort, after he inadvertently booked her services through an online agency. 40-year-old FIFO miner Peter Anderson uncovered his wife’s clandestine side-career last week when he and several workmates solicited female escort services at a hotel...

July 14, 2015. 10:10 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Local man, Nick Mallet, has landed himself in the uncomfortable position of having to remain in a platonic friendship with a female acquaintance that he very much wants to have sex with. "I really stuffed up, I pulled the 'Netflix and chill' card too early" says the 26-year-old, who hasn't had intimate...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A FREMANTLE WOMAN says her recent trip to India failed to live up to expectation after being repeatedly exposed to poverty, leprosy and general human suffering. While admitting she's a relatively inexperienced traveller, Rachael Cromwell described her holiday as "a living hell" and "not what the pamphlets promised". Ms Cromwell said she was prepared to forsake some...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact A Canberra man has been arrested and transported to Goulburn Supermax today, after an AFP raid on his eco-friendly home in the Australian capital. "We have reason to believe this man has close links to the CEFC, and in particular, their solar power division," said AFP spokesmen, Ken Nagas. "New laws state that this man's keen interest...

10 July, 2015. 15:06 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IT'S LIKE TINDER, but for people who want to fight. That's the message this morning from the NSW government as they look in to alternative measures to clamp down on the scourge of alcohol-fuelled violence. Police minister Stuart Ayres says the new app, which will be available for download within weeks, aims to...

July 10, 2015. 11:10 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact A Breeza man has said he is "not overly concerned" about the news that his own government approved the highly contentious Shenhua Watermark coal mine in his local electorate, despite his vehement protests. Berrick Blackett, a fourth-generation sorghum farmer, says he'll just have to wait and see how the project plays out -...