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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact As he sat, watching the clouds swirl atop his room temperature tankard of Carlton Draught, disgraced former MP Daryl Maguire wondered if he was pissed enough to start talking about his feelings. He was home in Wagga over the weekend with a cloud hanging over his own head after a telling week at ICAC. North Wagga,...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A Betoota Heights matriarch is low-key pleased today after getting the green light from the rest of her immediately family to slash numbers at Christmas lunch this year. Glenda Hayman said she looked at the list of relatives they usually feel obligated to invite over for a free meal on God's kid's birthday and...

JACK WILLS | Contributor | CONTACT Queensland have informed the AFL this morning that it has officially cancelled next week's grand final.   "It's not that we don't want to host it, it's just that we can't" said Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, this morning. "Like, I thought we could. But I've just realised over the weekend that ummm... Yeah the lights aren't working at the Gabba or...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT Tools down, it's wine-o-fucking- clock! That's the message coming out of Sydney's Macquarie Street this evening, as Premier Gladys Berejiklian (still) declares she 'is so fucking done with this week.' Like literally, done. The strong words come after another day of full-blown corruption was aired in the ICAC, with Daryl Maguire trying to discuss a land deal with her...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT Prime Minister Scott Morrison has today moved to assure the country that we aren't in need of a Federal style ICAC at all. The man who previously labelled calls for a Royal Commission into the Banking and Financial Sector a "populist whinge," explained that everything in federal politics is ship shape corruption wise. The PM's comments come after a hell...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Herald Sun has today dedicated another 10 or inches to the musings of a shiraz conservative who has been having an unpleasant time locked down in his 13-bedroom sandstone mansion in Toorak. Murdoch darling, and convicted bigot, Andrew Bolt has today notched his 100th opinion column about what he believes to be the causes of Victoria's 816 deaths...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The flesh-wearing lizard who calls themselves Brad Hazard has said the state government in New South Wales may be forced to shut every pub in Broken Hill if this outbreak in Western Sydney can't be contained. Mr Hazard, who this masthead understands to be the NSW Health Minister but could easily be wrong, is saying...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact It's cheap, it's easy and it's healthy. That's the message from the Federal Government today after a recent survey found over 40% of renters around the country are struggling to pay the rent and feed themselves. Many are skipping meals, which triggered the Prime Minister Scott Morrison to suggest that maybe those people should adopt the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Premier Gladys Berejiklian hit back at reports from the predatory Daily Telegraph hacks this morning that her relationship with Daryl Maguire made her a target of Chinese intelligence agencies. This follows today's ICAC findings that her ex ran a cash-for-visas scheme involving Chinese nationals, which Ms Berejiklian has denied any knowledge of because she didn't listen to anything that...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The neo-liberal cancer on our society that is the private health insurance industry announced today that they're rebranding. From July 1 next year, the private health industry will change it's name to the Avoiding Medicare Levy Surcharge Sector, which brings it inline with what the industry has largely become. The Medicare Levy Surcharge is a large...