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Successful Greek-Australian businessman to return to Greece to fix everything

30 June, 2015. 14:02 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact HARRY SARKIS ARRIVED in Australia in 1958 with a suitcase full of dreams and drachmas. He settled quickly in to Sydney's Earlwood Greek community, scraping together enough money to start a fruit shop on Homer St, which snakes through the inner-southwestern suburb. Joined by his brother and cousin in the early 1960's, the...

Archibald 2015: Frances Abbott Submits The First Official Portrait Of Her Father

June 30, 2015. 10:40 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact A late entry into this year's Archibald Prize has left judges stunned, as the daughter of Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott submits the first official portrait of her father. According to the Herald, it has been revealed that the trustee board of the famous art prize made an exception to all submission deadlines,...

Free Speech Activist Finds Himself Defending Terrorism During Heated Argument

June 29, 2015. 09:10 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact As debates continue to rage over the Australian Broadcasting Corporations' inclusion of a terror suspect in the audience of their Monday night program, Q&A - One man has found himself arguing in defence of the national broadcaster, to the point of him actually sounding like someone who sympathises with terrorists. Brendan Suffern,...

BREAKING: Australian Government To Trial Gay-Marriage In Tasmania

June 27, 2015. 14:10 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact   The Abbott government has agreed to briefly allow gay marriage In Tasmania, under a new trial. The Federal Government is contemplating legislation that will "meet those gay rights folk half way". Under the plan entitled 'Get sassy in tassie' same sex marriage would be allowed in the apple isle but not on the...

AGNSW To Postpone Archibald Prize Until After State Of Origin Series

    9 May, 2016. 09:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact In what has been described as a "disappointing compromise" for the trustee board of the famous Archibald Portrait Prize, the Art Gallery of New South Wales has today told The Age that all announcements regarding the 2015 finalists will be postponed from July until early October. "This has nothing to do with the artists, gallery...

Moranbah Man Moves Family To Brisbane To Get FIFO Work In Moranbah

23 June, 2015. 11:05 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact In the central-Queensland town of Moranbah, Locals are having to relocate their families south to Brisbane, in order to keep their jobs in the Moranbah mine. "It doesn't seem practical, but this place only likes hiring FIFO's (fly-in-fly-out workers) - the locals may as well be fucking kangaroos" says 4th-generation coal-miner, Ted Thornton. "My father...

“Drugs will ruin your life, if I catch you” says community-minded policeman

23 June, 2015. 11:06 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact VICTORIAN POLICE HAVE warned partygoers that drugs will run their lives, but only if they catch them with drugs on their person. As the city gears up for the annual blues festival, Melbourne revellers have been put on notice by police to behave and not to do drugs. "We've given drug users plenty of warning,"...

Muslim Leaders Condemn The Charleston Church Shooting

21 June, 2015. 13:00 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Finally, over four days after the horrific attacks in the south-eastern US city of Charleston, where a 21-year-old white man opened fire on churchgoers inside the famous Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Muslim-American leaders around the country have spoken up - Despite not really being asked to.   "We condemn the actions of this individual"...

Packer’s Romance With Mariah Doesn’t Really Live Up To 20 Years Of Wet Dreams

  20 June, 2015. 13:00 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact BILLIONAIRE and entertainment mogul James Packer is dating American songstress Mariah Carey according to close sources and the invasive photographers who captured photos of them holding hands in Capri, Italy. It is believed that the pair are sailing around the Mediterranean on Packer’s yacht, with the couple soon bound for Cannes and St...

Air Crash Investigations accidentally broadcast during long-haul flight

17 June, 2015. 15:32 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A SOUTHEAST ASIAN airline has come under fire for accidentally broadcasting an episode of Air Crash Investigations during a scheduled flight to Europe. The carrier, which cannot be named for legal reasons, has been subject to multiple hull losses and near misses in the past 24 months. This is the latest controversy that...

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