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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact There's not much Natalie Smithson won't put salt on. The 28-year-old's favourite drink is a French Quarter staple - vodka, lime and salt water. She even grinds a fine mist of sea salt over her cocoa rice cereal of a morning time, telling the other residents of her jazzy Betoota Heights red brick sharehouse that it enhances flavour in the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Queensland strawberry growers are pleading for "calm and common sense" in the wake of deliberate contaminations found in punnets of the fruit across the nation. More than 100 reports of tampered fruit are being investigated by police across the country, many of which are thought to be fake or copycat cases because the Australan media is covering this...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Editor-at-large | Contact Anthony Silver had the shock of his life today. Beginning his new graduate physiotherapist position at the local Royal Betoota Hospital, Silver knew it would be an experience. However, ready to start his career on the front foot, the young man was ready for anything today. Or so he thought. Fresh from graduating from a sandstone university in...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Prime Minister has conceded today that the ongoing debate surrounding Australia Day isn't about what day it falls on, it's about not letting the other side win. Scott Morrison spoke to the media today in Canberra just hours after the People's Republic of Byron Bay, on the far north New South Wales coast, voted...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The hunt is on for the next high-ranking former private school person with a three-year- degree from Sydney University to run the ABC today after the incumbent Managing Director, Michelle Guthrie, had her ride on the tax-payer funded gravy train cut short. Reportedly unhappy with how Guthrie captained the Kremlin, the board removed her just...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Personal trainer/aspiring Instagram influencer Nick Westerman (32) put himself out there this week by showing off his collection of artisanal candles valued at over $4000. “I get them at farmer’s markets. Got to do our bit for the drought,” stated Westerman. “They help me relax. This is my space.” Westerman debuted his upscale collection of wax and string to Tinder...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT Hannah Osborne has alerted her friends and followers today that her finger is on the pulse. The 24-year-old Brisbane born and raised economics graduate who is currently residing in the trendy Melbourne suburb of Richmond posted a photo of herself on her social media enjoying a nice glass with her new Richmond scarf. The young woman who moved down to...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT The tribe has spoken today. And the tribe has confirmed that the Australian Survivor host and brother of famous actor Anthony LaPaglia has been getting a solid pump on this season. The host of the popular reality TV show wowed viewers around the country with his physical shape in the last season, and it has been officially confirmed that...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A fierce household debate has today been resolved after a dad was proven to be wrong without having to admit it. Through a stubborn, almost obnoxious, half hour argument - local man Lloyd McNamara (62) was forced to admit that his 29 year old daughter Ellie actually knows more about football than he does. A simple google search on a...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Supermarkets across the country are now installing blue lights in their fruit and vegetable sections, to limit the amount of needles being pricked into fruit. This follows the Prime Minister's announcement that new laws will be introduced so people contaminating strawberries will face more jail time, if caught. Scott Morrison has described those who have hidden needles in fruit as...