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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The federal government has announced changes in the budget that will help jam an unsustainable amount of international students back into university lectures around the country. The new measures are aimed to help the sandstone institutions get back on their feet after a year impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic that nearly crushed their glorious cash cow that is the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has been quick to shut down all suggestions that he has abandoned the political ideologies most commonly associated with the Liberal and National parties. Turnbull, who was twice the Federal Leader of the Liberal Party and twice rolled as the Federal Leader of the Liberal Party - once in opposition against Gillard and once...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local chippy Dennis Dingle from Betoota's booming Ponds District has today had to do the double tap on his hunger pains. The 38-year-old door-hanger says usually a white bread roll jammed with that fluro pink processed meat with lettuce and carrot and a litre of iced coffee will do the job for smoko. And by usually he means every single...

FRANKIE DeGROOT | News | CONTACT Motorists were dismayed again this week as fuel prices in the CBD rose to $1.48 per litre. That is, everyone except for Justin Chan, who had already filled up his rickety 1996 Sonata prior to trying to flog it off for $100 to someone who doesn’t know much about cars.   “The fuel gauge is fucked, the needle is stuck on...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Bill and Melinda Gates decided to divorce several months before the May 3 announcement, according to the salivating American tabloids. This tops off a stressful year for Bill Gates, who has been at the centre of conspiracy theories since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic - as terrified social media users desperately try to point the finger at the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Prime Minister Scotty From Marketing has let out a mighty sigh this morning after NSW contact tracers reveal that his widely condemned racist Indian flight ban would not have stopped the current outbreak in Sydney anyway. The newest NSW community transmission cluster has today doubled, as the wife of the man from Sydney's eastern suburbs who tested covid positive...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Federal Opposition leader and potentially Australia's first single dad Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese has spent the last few hours in a panic - as he tries to trace his steps over the last week. "Fuck. Where was I on Saturday?" wonders the Marrickville MP. "May Day was Monday... So I was in Brissy for that... Where the fuck was I...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT There has been a new twist in the Stuart MacGill kidnapping case, as police begin executing search warrants right across Australia to figure out what on earth happened in Sydney's North Shore on April 14. NSW Police claim Australian cricket legend Stuart MacGill was kidnapped off the street in Sydney's north shore, held at gunpoint, before a ransom was...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Pressure is mounting on Scotty From Marketing to reverse his poorly-received India travel ban as the United Nations joins a growing list of organisations that have condemned the laws as a blatant violation of human rights. On Wednesday the UN Human Rights Commission raised "serious concerns" about the Morrison government's move to ban its own citizens from returning from...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT As Season 4 of the US TV hit The Handmaid's Tale returns to screens in Australia, millions of viewers are tuning into SBS to get their fix of the terrifying plot lines that weave across the misogynistic dystopia. The program is most popular with female audiences - as it tells the harrowing story of the main character is June,...