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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...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Newly appointed National Party leader and Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, Michael McCormack MP has today thrown a life raft to the regional Australian families who depend on the Murray-Darling basin but don't farm cotton. Following the resignation of former leader, Barnaby Joyce, there has been growing pressure placed on the National Party to finally do something about the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A little known fact relating to the rapidly growing population of greater South-East Queensland is that there actually is a vague community of people on the Gold Coast who aren't just visiting. Even weirder, some of these people don't even live on the beach. Meaning there must be a number of houses in suburbs that connect to the Surfer's...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Anthony Albanese MP has today appeared on Sky News wearing some tidy new little Italian threads that were given to him as a gift by some close friends in the Riverina today. Dressed like a prohibition-era Chicago moonshining baron, Albo spoke highly of the precision of a Griffith-based tailor named Enzo. "Look at the hems, mate. You just don't get...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact As the #DeleteFacebook movement grows in momentum, so too has another. Thousands of disgruntled and unhappy Facebook customers have deleted their accounts in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal whereby the transglobal social media network stands accused of allowing private research firms harvest their data for commercial gain. But those who have deleted their accounts no longer have a...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Ahead of his second sold out Brisbane show at Suncorp Stadium tonight, English pop star Ed Sheeran has been spotting feeding a sneaky hunj into the iconic Where's The Gold poker machine at the Broncos Leagues Club in Red Hill. It is believed that Ed Sheeran was 'bored as shit' in the rainy weather, and felt the need to...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A local inner-city Melbourne progressive who demands action on providing asylum for refugees and renewal energy alternatives has today thrown her hand up to hypothetically house a family of dispossessed Syrians of Rohingyans, but not right now. Right now they are renovating the terrace house, so they can finally get some light into the nursery for their newborn, and...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT For one pensioner, the reality of the nation’s drug epidemic has really hit home this week. Marjorie Andrews (84) has been aware of the unfolding crisis on the streets for some time, but was confronted in her own personal life recently, after seeing a young man with facial tattoos. “I knew it was bad, from all the stuff I have...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A recent report by the Australian Sports Commission has found that the North Queensland Cowboys has had more blokes nearly play for them than any other rugby league club in Australia. The Cowboys were admitted to the premiership for the 1995 ARL season. They played in the breakaway Super League competition in 1997 before continuing to compete in the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact "I've already phoned Tom Tilley and given him a piece of my mind. I said I'd break his other fucking leg if he got in my way. King of Louee, give me a brake. Mind the pun!" he said. "But back to what you were saying, this was an unexpected opportunity and I think the ABC has finally done something...