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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Greater Brisbane has recorded even more positive cases of the virus today, as the city enters day one of the snap three-day lockdown. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk expects the Queensland cluster to grow even further by the end of today, as the spotlight falls on the number of unvaccinated doctors and nurses working on her state's COVID-19 frontline. There are claims...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local COVID-Coward, Melodie Uptown, has begun her two weeks in hotel quarantine today - after finally pulling the pin of that miserable megacity of wet weather and vulnerable pensioners known as London. That's according to her Instagram, which is now littered with very boring stories from inside a serviced apartment in Betoota's CBD. Friends and extended family are making sure...

EFFIE BATEMAN | CULTURE | CONTACT Practicing her poses as she flips to her favourite ‘Cali girl’ Instagram filter, local woman Hannah Rockford is sure she’s going to finally land her white whale with this one... I.E local hunk and a friend of friend's boyfriend, Josh Conner. It’s alleged that the Betoota Heights pharmacist had matched with the mutual friend on Tinder, where it’d naturally...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT In a weird turn of events last night, it appears that the Prime Minister of Australia has apologised for misinforming the public during a live press conference in Canberra. Scotty From Marketing has been forced to make an embarrassing apology on his Facebook page last night. The PM made history by admitting to telling lies in an effort to...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The torrential rain currently battering Australia's eastern coastline is verging on sign-language-levels of disaster, it has been confirmed. Evacuations are currently taking place in towns right across New South Wales, as the South-East Corner of Queensland is told to brace for the worst, with weather experts not yet ruling out a proper Brisbane flood. A flood warning has also been...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT As things finally began to settle down in the Mid-North Coast of New South Wales, it seems the evacuation centres are once again filling up with camp beds. After a disastrous end to 2019 with the Black Summer Bushfires, and a pandemic that decimated local tourism in 2020, they only got three months into 2021 before the flooding began. Schools...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT As Australia comes to terms with the very real possibility that our government is running a protection racket for a political class of entitled rapists, the internet has been transformed into a hotbed of contrarian talking points. With the back drop of the Parliament House rape crisis, the horrible news stories coming out of London over the weekend, and...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT In Western Australia today, the Liberal Party remains in palliative care after a devastating state election bloodbath over the weekend. In a scenario not seen since Sir Joh-era Queensland, the state Liberal Party of WA now has less seats then their little brothers in the National Party. Federally things aren't going much better, as the embattled Attorney-General and Member for...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Western NSW grain growers are beginning to fear that this year's winter crop will be decimated by feral mice as the overwhelming rodent plague escalates across the state. Mice populations have spiked well beyond manageable numbers, with the agricultural sector alerting government officials to increasing reports of them ruining crops, destroying stored hay and invading silos, sheds and homes. Houses...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A cool 39-year-old dude currently loitering around the front bar of one of Betoota's premiere nightclubs is looking for "some E" if you got any. The suspiciously athletic looking partygoer claims he just wants to chill out man and enjoy the vibes. He says he goes by the name of 'Zak' and is new to town, if you know where...