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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Channel 9 have today announced a reality TV show to end them all, My Kitchen Rescue. The program which looks to fuse all marketable qualities from the fledgling television station's remaining contestant shows, is set to be an absolute 'BLOCKbuster'. The current format stipulates that former neighbours star and iconic game show coach, Delta Goodrem, will sit in a...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT Due to a combination of pressure and lack of documentation, the Spilt Milk festival has had to shelve the Australian-first pill testing initiative just weeks ahead of the November festival. However, there is still a glimmer of hope for festival attendees as Greens Party leader, Richard Di Natale, has vowed to make a public appearance at the festival and...

As the weather goes from cloudy and cold to sunny and cold, outdoor activities are once again a weekend option for outgoing Australians. However, in the case of Betoota Heights native Damien Mortimer, he’d be happy to see the weekends come and go to bring him closer to his coveted day out, The Melbourne Cup. “It’s gonna be huge mate!" he...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT Victorian landlords are in a state of protest over the Andrew’s Government push to allow renters the right to pet ownership. One vocal opponent is Fitzroy based landlord Randall Patel (56). “For God’s sake, most of the youths I’ve had over the years have done a good enough job clogging the drain pipes up themselves without adding pet hair...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT For local punter, Benji Oxley, this weeks marks the start of the most difficult couple months of the year for a betting enthusiast. "Oooooh!" he says. "Brisbane Bullets verse Cairns Taipans. This is a tough one. Love me a little derby" "I'm going with my heart. Go Taipans!" No, he's not talking about some obscure type of American sport that Australian men...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Sporting culture and drug culture often go hand in hand, particularly around this time of the year with Mad Mondays and end of season team trips to exotic party destinations. Whether it's our swimmers on Stillnox, cricketers dosing up on their mum's pain medication, swimmers on the Bondi marching powder or our footballers indulging in every mind-altering...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT As winter approaches, an entire generation of young Aussies are preparing their strict bodybuilding regimes in preparation for the Summer’s electronic dance festivals. Third year carpentry apprentice, Joel Simmons, says the ‘festival season’ is quite an important time of the year for a large portion of Australia’s blue-collar men. “It starts in about May when we really start to bulk. We...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said that the impending extinction of koalas could only help the economy, if anything, while speaking at a endangered species skeptics conference yesterday afternoon. The Member for Warringah has managed to provoke enough outrage for people to not forget he exists as he pointed out that he disagrees with the commonly-held theory that...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Australia's coastal communities and their use of the word 'hell' have baffled senior literary academics at Oxford Dictionary for many years now. So much so that the Oxford University Press have sent several experts to the 'coastie' townships across Australia to study how they have managed to use this of Mooloolaba, The Gong and more specifically Terrigal, in the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A seemingly rational discussion between two people, who agree on most things, has taken a sharp turn this afternoon. While both holidaying in the same place, two middle-aged women, both with children that are similar ages, have found themselves disagreeing over the idea that more guns and more access to guns results in more people who shouldn't be allowed...