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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A nationwide shortage of plastic penis straws is not making life any easier for the unfortunate women around Australia who have been selected to play the role of a bridesmaid in the near future. The bridesmaids are members of the bride's party in a wedding. A bridesmaid is typically a young woman, and often a close friend or sister....

28 February, 2016. 15:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact ONE WEST QUEENSLAND PUBLICAN has taken it upon himself to do his bit to prevent the out-of-control drunken violence that's plaguing the sunshine state by putting a boxing ring in the beer garden of his hotel. It's a model that many metropolitan venues are now looking at adopting, letting angry patrons fight...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact PROMINENT BLUE MOUNTAINS MC Lil KoneKunt was rushed to hospital in the early hours of this morning after becoming the latest victim in the ongoing gang violence that's plagued Australia's hip hop scene for years. At approximately 3:30 am AEST, the 25-year-old was allegedly set upon by a group of men in the carpark of a Penrith fast...

26 February, 2016. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact PRISONS IN QUEENSLAND AND NEW SOUTH WALES are under investigation today after allegations surfaced surrounding the inhumane practice of forcing tertiary-educated tax cheats and insider traders to watch Channel 10's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! came to light. The show, featuring the bottom draw of the Australian entertainment industry, has...

26 January, 2016 13:00 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT PRIME MINISTER MALCOLM TURNBULL has today announced that the government will build a fleet of 12 new submarines over the next 30 years as part of an overall increase in defence spending to combat the rise of religious extremism in the Middle East. Early estimates have costed the submarines at $50 billion to design and build, but the...

25 January, 2016 10:05 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Earlier this year, Treasurer Scott Morrison has approved the sale of Australia’s largest dairy farming business, the Van Diemen’s Land Company (VDL), to the Chinese-owned Moon Lake Investments. VDL, which dates from 1825, owns and operates 25 dairy farms in Tasmania, milking some 18,000 cows. The $280 million dollar sale has left both economists, politicians and farmers...

24 January, 2016 11:35 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has today been praised by blokey dads around the nation, after he requested an investigation into a taxpayer-funded program aimed at helping lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and/or intersex (LGBTI) school students. The Safe Schools education program is set to be reviewed following fierce criticism from some Coalition backbenchers, many of whom had...

23 January, 2016 10:35 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Banjo Paterson once wrote about the Barcoo shire in Western Queensland. The opening line of of his 1890 poem "A Bush Christening" gives profile to the district: "On the outer Barcoo where the churches are few, And men of religion are scanty" In the century and a half since this poem was written, nothing has changed. Other than...

19 February, 2016. 15:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THERE'S NO NEED TO BE alarmed, that's the message from the NSW government as they battle to contain a potential outbreak of the often fatal Redfern bindi-eye. Thought the be extinct since the early 2000's, this latest environmental disaster has got officials worried. Two years ago, a pleasant young man from Bellevue Hill...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT After an early knock-off from work, Townsville man Clyde Barber has been forced to bag and take-away his usual five long-necks of XXXX Bitter from the local pub - Instead of drinking them there. Mr Barber says he did not feel welcome in the Kennedy Hotel's public bar this afternoon, after being met with a hostile reception when a...