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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT WAIT, WHAT? POOR GOVERNANCE EQUALS CIVIL UNREST? Thousands of Melbourne residents have taken to the streets of the city over the weekend to highlight the fact that they are willing to get arrested for the conspiracies that have taken over their YouTube-brains after nearly two months of extreme financial distress. The Victorian Police Commissioner said yesterday's anti-lockdown protests...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT After millions of years of adapting to survive, humans have lived through the odd rough patch or two and continue to do so today in the face of a deadly world wide pandemic. As we approach nearly two years of living with this current virus, it is worth reflecting on what we’ve learnt in this time and how this...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT It seems that even after 200 cumulative days in lockdown over the last 18 months, Melbourne residents are still not taking this thing seriously and need to take a good look at themselves. Premier Dan Andrews has warned that the state's 17th outbreak might spiral out of control, as Victoria records 55 new cases overnight, their second day...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A study released by the EMA (Exhausted Medical Association) today has concluded that people in the community who do not want to wear a mask for whatever reason should wear a less-intrusive plastic bag over their head instead. Plastic bags, while now harder to find, are readily available across Australia. Many are owned by anti-mask...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Greater Sydney lockdown has claimed another cultural insititution overnight, as the iconic Golden Century Seafood Restaurant in Chinatown announces that it has gone into administration after 31 years. The 24-hour Chinese restaurant - known for its colourful patronage of bikies, Labor MPs, union heavies and rock stars - was unable to withstand the relentless restrictions put in...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT As Victoria records 57 new locally acquired cases, it seems that the chances of an early release from Melbourne's extended two-week lockdown are vanishing right before our eyes. Finally back on deck after fracturing a vertebrae while on a brief holiday between his state's second and third waves, Victorian Premier Dan Andrews is once again copping all the flak...

CLANCY OVERELL  | Editor | CONTACT As the Taliban continue to consolidate their control over the major cities of Afghanistan, the president of their now collapsed US-backed government has left his supporters hanging at the gates of the airport - while he 'pulled a scomo'. 'Pulling a scomo' is a popular expression within the Australian vernacular, and is used to describe the actions of...

CLANCY OVERELL  | Editor | CONTACT WE'VE DONE ALL WE CAN: US President Joe Biden says he stands squarely behind his decision to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan, after rebel forces seized power in just over a week. The US-funded Taliban overpowered US-trained Afghan Armed Forces and swept into Afghanistan’s capital Sunday, after the US-backed Afghan government imploded and the embattled president joined an...

CLANCY OVERELL  | Editor | CONTACT While swinging from a hammock out the back of her Californian Bungalow in Murwillumbah, local anti-vaxxer Keely Spiritchild (57) unloads another couple of paragraphs into the secret Facebook group that she spends most of her day moderating. As NSW records 633 new cases this week, including three transmissions in her out Northern Rivers LGS, Keely says this has...

CLANCY OVERELL  | Editor | CONTACT The proud people of New South Wales have today announced that they aren't fucking around when it comes to this virus, as the state records a 33% increase in active cases overnight. The Premier Gladys Berejiklian has today announced another 825 infections recorded. This huge increase from yesterday's 644 cases has seen NSW not even bothering to fuck...