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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Defence Minister Christopher Pyne MP has today returned back from an extended staycation in his native Adelaide with slightly blonde cornrows. The 51-year-old father-of-four refused to explain why he was donning the new afro-centric hairstyle, but many commentators are drawing links between his recent pilgrimage to the Adelaide Fringe Festival. Despite being commonly linked to conservative policymaking, the quirky nature...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The construction crew working on the next door neighbour's renovations had a fucking blinder over the weekend, you shoulda been there. Except, you really didn't need to be there, because between the wafts of Winfield Gold, the entire 60 hours have been described in great detail just a couple of inches from your bedroom window. It all started with the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Queensland’s Gold Coast has been praised today by both minority groups and politicians for managing to last 5 months without a video surfacing of a racist public transport incident. Gold Coast mayor, Tom Tate, says he is very proud of his city for not making national headlines over picking on random strangers on a bus or light rail carriage,...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The short-lived two-game domination of this year's NRL competition came to an end for the good people of Newcastle last night, as they kind of expected it would. New Roosters recruit Cooper Cronk either set up, or scored all of his side's tries, proving that his team aren't really missing Mitchell Pearce, who was on the losing side of...

KENT REGINALD | Entertainment | CONTACT A ‘Neighbours' alum and self-described ‘actor’ has finally cracked the Big Time of American TV, after landing the coveted role of Unidentified Corpse #211 of hit US Crime Drama, N.C.I.S. Tyson Michaels, who played teenage billionaire bad-boy with a heart of gold Michael Tyson on the long-running soap opera, has had a lifelong dream come true after it was...

KENT REGINALD | Entertainment | CONTACT A Gold Coast divorcee who lives in a beautiful beachfront home has dramatically announced her plans to take a break from her hectic and stress-filled life by completely changing tack and spending two weeks in a beautiful beachfront home in Bali. Trish Worthington, a 45 year old Marketing Manager and 2nd runner up in the...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | Contact Acoustic singer/songwriter and occasional freestyle rapper, Gene Forester (19) states he has thoroughly enjoyed his time as the frontman of a university band while privately wondering if he’ll get to finish his degree before being offered a record deal. “Mum would be so upset if I didn’t finish, but it would be the chance of a lifetime! If someone...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | Contact Realising it has been five years since she first started dating, 23-year-old Lisa Kavanagh has come to the disappointing revelation that she has never met ‘The One’ at any of the hostels or share house parties she’s frequented over the past few years. A believer in true love ever since she saw the film Love...

TRACEY BENDINGER | Social Nuances | Contact Australians are today left confused and uncertain of just how to express to others their level of happiness. Traditionally, Aussies would refer to the happiest bloke in Australia, Larry, commonly known from the now global colloquialism, ‘happy as Larry’. However, in a devastating turn of events, Larry is no longer emotionally equipped to carry the country’s mental...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | Contact With more Australian’s working longer hours in a fluorescent corporate hell, managers are increasingly looking for solutions to improve the well-being of their employees in order to make them satisfied about doing more work for less money. One solution has been proved most effective by Safe Work Australia is to place indoor plants in an office space in order...