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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact BY day, Alex Greenwall is a private wealth manager with one of Australia's largest hedge funds. But by night, the 28-year-old is training for the fight of his life. His opponent, a British term deposit specialist with a penchant for violence. This is just one of many professionally organised white-collar amateur boxing matches, which are organised...

14 August, 2015. 14:44 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact FORMER SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE Bronwyn Bishop said she "actually enjoyed the experience" after she was spotted on a commercial flight today. Mrs Bishop was returning to Sydney from Canberra this afternoon when she told her fellow passengers that flying commercially wasn't as bad as she thought it was. "Normally I wouldn't be looking...

13 August, 2015. 18:36 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A DEAD CAT in a Blue Mountains National Park has started to unravel an age-old mystery while starting another one of its own. How the corpse of a 13-year-old black Maine Coon came to be found on the edge of Lithgow this week has sparked a police investigation that has a member of the...

12 August, 2015. 15:35 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IT'S ONE OF Australia's most favourite pass times. And in light of Channel 7's decision to axe the groundbreaking reality TV series Restaurant Revolution for Cats That Make You Laugh Out Loud, it's becoming more popular than ever. Destruction by gravity has been a cornerstone in Australian entertainment for generations and people around...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact POLICE in Brisbane are calling it “fightin' in a bottle”, a type of rum known on the streets as cane champagne or biff syrup that’s making users handsome and psychotic while giving them a superhuman ability to make ripper calls and punch people senseless. The dark spirit, which cops say is prevalent in the rugby...

4 August, 2015. 11:00 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact NON-INDIGENOUS, MELBOURNE-BASED NEWSCORP COLLUMIST, ANDREW BOLT has this week been informed by Aboriginal residents from the notorious Indigenous community of Cherbourg, that he is not welcome in their town. Locals fear that if Mr Bolt decided to visit the iconic Aboriginal settlement, he would risk being at the receiving end of some "mission justice".  That is, if he...

3 August, 2015. 14:50 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact FORMER SPEAKER OF the House Bronwyn Bishop says her exile to the backbench is a "blessing in disguise". The 72-year-old university dropout plans to teach up-and-coming Liberal members how to act like a Coalition minister, by teaching them how to properly spend tax-payer money. While many of her colleagues have lauded her selflessness by...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Australian Of The Year is described as "a unique award that it is sponsored by a national government and commands broad public support,". However, as prestigious as the award is, it is common knowledge in Australian society, that no one can command support from the Australian public - even one of the highest performing athletes in Australian football. The Australian,...

27 July, 2015. 16:09 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THERE IS A PART of Northern Australia that's still untouched by the outside world. Outsiders who dare to visit are often greeted with hostility. They have their archaic views mocked and their livelihoods called in to disrepute. As a young man from neighbouring Charleville found out the hard way in 2004. He travelled to this tiny lost pocket of...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Katie Austin has just returned home from an amazing weekend at Splendour In The Grass. The 27-year-old says she has never felt as bad as she does at this very moment, sitting at her work desk. "I am absolutely ruined, I didn't eat the whole weekend," The iconic arts and music festival kicked off on Friday at...