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27 May, 2015. 10:34 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Local man, Tom Gridson (26) has been a diehard fan of mixed-martial arts for close to six months now. With the rise of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and the many colourful personalities that make up the competition's stable, Mr Gridson says he has entertained the idea of learning MMA for quite some time...

27 May, 2016. 16:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AFTER it was first published, twenty-four after it won the Miles Franklin Award, high school students around Australia still have no fucking idea what Tim Winton's Cloudstreet is about. Though their teachers might explain the themes and motifs of the 426-page classic, nearly every student surveyed by the Queensland Curriculum...

26 May, 2016. 16:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact JUST MONTHS AFTER stating that the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia looked like he was inbred with a tomato, actor Johnny Deep has confirmed that he's covered the northern wall of his living room with images of Barnaby Joyce. Yesterday, Mr Joyce said he must've gotten inside the 51-year-old's head and these latest...

26 May, 2o16. 13:02 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact NEXT MONDAY MORNING, 21-year-old Dominic Haziz is flying to The Netherlands on his first ever business trip - in fact, he's even flying business class. But he's just one of many young Australians taking advantage of the generous small business tax concessions that were in this year's budget. Earlier this year, the Logan...

26 May, 2015. 14:34 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Sydney Opera House’s 1500-seat Joan Sutherland Theatre, the Sydney home of Opera Australia and the Australian Ballet, will have to be closed for several months to undergo maintenance and the removal of the giant wooden soap box currently sitting in the centre of the venue after yesterday's TedX event. The Opera House said, in...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact In what many political analysts are calling a pre-election media stunt, Former Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has been photographed eating an entire glass schooner while having lunch at the Freemasons Hotel in Tamworth this morning. Witnesses gasped as the New England MP began to casually take bites out of his beer glass while watching the pub's...

25 May, 2015. 10:45 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact With the introduction of light rail and ongoing suburban sprawl, the 'Bush Capital' of Canberra, ACT now has a population bigger than some countries. Due to the weather and unique culture, one direct comparison that has been made is with the Nordic nation of Iceland. Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Julie Bishop, says that every...

23 May, 2016. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IF YOU'RE A HOT GAY WOMAN, then bite your tongue and vote for the Coalition government this July, because they might've found some middle ground on the polarising issue of gay marriage. After a series of high-level talks between senior members of the Liberal and National Party, a policy agreement was established,...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact WANTING TO GET TO the bottom of an age-old mystery, the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre in Sydney commissioned a study into Tooheys Extra Dry Platinums, a brew notorious for its higher-than-average alcohol content. What the report found has rocked the Australian liquor industry. The report concluded that nothing good ever happens if a day's...

20 May, 2016. 09:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact INSPIRED BY THE DECADENCE and grand opulence of general admission areas of racecourses around Australia, affordable fashion label Tarocash has debuted a selection of high-quality garments to screaming crowds in Sydney this morning. They're designed to be a low-cost alternative to what else is on offer, with some suggestion that the trendy threads...