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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Donald Trump has bestowed his good wishes on Ghislaine Maxwell, who faces federal charges for allegedly enabling the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking of minor girls. Donald Trump has bestowed his good wishes on Ghislaine Maxwell, who faces federal charges for allegedly enabling the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking of minor girls. The president's tone deaf comments have...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Now that times have got tough again for a lot of people, many across our bustling inland port city have been looking down other avenues in which to draw an income. One of them is Dougal Thomas. The 28-year-old was working flat out in Betoota's commercial leasing industry until COVID struck and since then, things have...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Victoria has recorded 484 new cases of the pangolin's kiss today, which has caused many in the sunny north to refer to the state as 'Australia's Flordia'. That title is not constructive or funny, says the Victorian Government, who today were forced again to defend their handling of the coronavirus. "Please stop referring to Victoria as...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT The hunt is on! Across the state in Queensland today, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has given the Katter boys free rein to deal with the 185 people missing from quarantine today. The Premier declared open season for the Kings of the Deep North this morning after it was revealed that 185 people who were supposed to be self quarantining...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A politically-active young man has faced off with his natural predator this afternoon at the Betoota Shire Council offices, where despite being cornered and afraid, managed to get off a classic insult. David Greenbauer is 20-year-old policy intern at the Mayor's office. His father is Roger Greenbauer, who has developed a number of properties...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A local man's time in the upside-down is seemingly coming to an end as his JobSeeker payments are about to be cut. Scott Morrison and his friend Joshua has said today that JobKeeper and JobSeeker will be harder to get moving forward and the payment itself will be less than what it is right...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT In a move to improve the public image of masks in Victoria, the Deputy Chief Medical Officer has revealed an exciting new policy initiative. Speaking this afternoon, Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Nick Coatsworth, announced that all masks in the Melbourne area would now be sold as 'second hand' or 'vintage.' "Since our previous announcement that masks will become...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT The escalating diplomatic spat between Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and Karen from Brighton has geared up another notch today. Earlier this morning Andrews kept the back and forth going by throwing a passive-aggressive sledge at the now relatively famous middle-aged woman from Brighton, saying that 'only boring people get bored.' His comments come following Karen from Brighton's comments...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Prime Minister announced this morning that JobKeeper and JobSeeker are being extended until the economy is ready to be taken off life support later this year. In addition to those existing schemes, Scott Morrison touched on a brand new economic jumpstart programme called JobBoomer, which he says is aimed at protecting the wealth...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact It was Kevin Rudd who declared that "any asylum seeker who arrives in Australia by boat will have no chance of being settled in Australia as refugees." Then it was Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull's mutant government that made good on that promise. Now it's this government that's making sure the taxpayer is taking millions...