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17 September, 2016. 16:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact JOINING ARTHUR TALLON ON HIS morning commute was stressful enough, but what came out of his mouth was the hate gravy upon his roast of every cyclist we drove past. "Just look at the cunt,' he said. The 43-year-old tax agent pointed with his hand outstretched as we headed toward central Betoota yesterday...

8 September, 2016. 10:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local degenerate, Tyler Watson (35) isn't really worried that nearly 800,000 Brazzers subscribers have had their personal details exposed in a major security breach, even though he is one of them. The IT worker is well aware that the premium porn website has been infiltrated by hackers who stole the details of...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Local mum, Olivia Mundey (58) has made a subtle attempt to show solidarity with her adult children, as husband John (62) launches into his weekly political rant. The children Laura (25) and Samuel (27) are also trying their best to make sure dad doesn't an unmanageable level of Courier Mail-fuelled rage as he talks about...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact CELESTE 'CECE' CARTER ALWAYS opens with the same line. "You know, I have a son about your age," she'd say to some unsuspecting young ringer in a fresh striped shirt his mother bought him for the trip down to the coast. "Oh yes! My youngest son wants to go to Newcastle Waters! Do you know anybody...

28 August, 2015 10:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Betoota races, held over two days in our far-western Queensland town about 33 kilometres north of the South Australian border, are quite literally the only show in town until - until the Brophy boxing tent roles through in October that is. With a spectacular turn out of roughly 6,000 people - our town has...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact DOUG PARSONS IS THE TYPE of bloke who'd walk into any pub down in the big smoke and light up a dart. He walks through every door dick first and refuses to apologise. When he's at work out west retrieving cattle out of the bush under helicopters and around motorbikes, his weapon of choice has...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Despite the fact that Ted knows Benji is blatantly geeing up his run-in with the Fortitude Valley police last night, he's going to let this one fly for the flow of conversation. As the boys get stuck into a few, the excitement of spinning yarns is turning into a subtle competition between Benji and their...

6 August, 2016. 10:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THE RISK OF WEST QUEENSLANDERS ACCIDENTLY sleeping with a relative or 'family friend' is apparently high enough to justify the creation of a smartphone app to help prevent it. A Thargomindah-based tech startup has released an app that has the information of every person registered in the Maranoa federal electorate and how...

5 August, 2016 10:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local mum, Deidre Colley (48) is thoroughly impressed by her 17-year-old son Braiden's homemade bunsen burner, it has been confirmed. After stumbling upon it while cleaning the floor underneath his bed this afternoon, Mrs Colley was amazed by the engineering involved in what her son says is just 'some thing they made us do at...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local man, Jordan Javesa (36) is struggling to tell his wife, Angela, that the list of favourite baby names that she has chosen for their unborn daughter could easily be confused with a list of chicks he used to root. "It's really bad. I mean, she knows I used to get around before I met her. But this is another...