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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...

  July 22, 2015. 11:35 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact THOUSANDS OF AUSTRALIAN NATIONALISTS are being universally laughed at this week after it was revealed that their official anti-Islamic rally anthem belongs to one of the most well-known Muslim rock stars of all time. Protests across Australia took place over the weekend, with clashes between anti-Muslim and anti-racism demonstrators. The Reclaim Australia...

July 20, 2015. 10:10 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact SHOCKING footage of Mick Fanning fending off a great white shark in Jeffreys Bay, South Africa, has made waves around the world. The Australian cultural activist movement, Reclaim Australia, has made an official statement this morning surrounding the incident. The movement has stated, that current increase in shark attacks on Australian beaches...

J.P. ELLIOT | Western Australia | Contact A Perth man has made the shocking discovery that his wife of 8 years has been secretly working as a "high-class" escort, after he inadvertently booked her services through an online agency. 40-year-old FIFO miner Peter Anderson uncovered his wife’s clandestine side-career last week when he and several workmates solicited female escort services at a hotel...

15 July, 2015. 15:07 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A SYDNEY COCAINE dealer who calls himself Instagram is being sued the US techno-giant after the man refused to change his business name. The man says he's earned the right to keep using his street name, which he says has been saved in the phones of over a hundred young professionals in Sydney's...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A FREMANTLE WOMAN says her recent trip to India failed to live up to expectation after being repeatedly exposed to poverty, leprosy and general human suffering. While admitting she's a relatively inexperienced traveller, Rachael Cromwell described her holiday as "a living hell" and "not what the pamphlets promised". Ms Cromwell said she was prepared to forsake some...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact A Canberra man has been arrested and transported to Goulburn Supermax today, after an AFP raid on his eco-friendly home in the Australian capital. "We have reason to believe this man has close links to the CEFC, and in particular, their solar power division," said AFP spokesmen, Ken Nagas. "New laws state that this man's keen interest...

10 July, 2015. 15:06 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IT'S LIKE TINDER, but for people who want to fight. That's the message this morning from the NSW government as they look in to alternative measures to clamp down on the scourge of alcohol-fuelled violence. Police minister Stuart Ayres says the new app, which will be available for download within weeks, aims to...

July 10, 2015. 11:10 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact A Breeza man has said he is "not overly concerned" about the news that his own government approved the highly contentious Shenhua Watermark coal mine in his local electorate, despite his vehement protests. Berrick Blackett, a fourth-generation sorghum farmer, says he'll just have to wait and see how the project plays out -...

8 July, 2015. 15:06 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact SHANE WARNE HAS stunned the crowds at a UK charity cricket match by debuting his new look, as well as bowling out the entire opposing team around their legs with classic legbreaks. The controversial 45-year-old has also lashed out at the tabloids for continuing to spread rumours of him having plastic surgery, something...