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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A second-year-plumbing apprentice who is on the same wages his dad was 18-years-ago, says he's not really that interested in this weekend's election. Despite the fact that in two years on the job, Codey has already injured himself to the point where he has had to miss work unpaid, he's still not overly interested in who wins this weekend. "I'm...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Yuppie households across the cities and towns are starting to feel the pinch on all fronts but one pantry staple is beyond the pale, according to one French Quarter man. The price of cauliflower rice, a popular substitute for regular rice in households that have paid the luxury car tax more than once, is now...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactA local landlord has found himself in a very powerful position this week after realising just how dire the rental crisis in Australia is right now. Stephen Wall is said to have collected several investment properties across south east Queensland over the past twenty years, starting off with a property just metres from the beach, which he’d been...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The latest Newspoll, released just moments before last night's noisy leaders debate, shows Anthony Albanese is still somehow closing in on Scott Morrison as preferred Prime Minister - after a week of feral mudslinging from both the Coalition PR machines and the Murdoch/Costello media duopoly. With early voting open today, these numbers could spell a 'death knell' for the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A prominent rural Tasmanian grandmother of two with another on the way has today revealed to our reporters that she is making sure her vote counts, you can bet cha bottom dollar on that. Bronte Park (67) says after sevoin maybe oight Proime Ministoirs, she's "had it arp to hoire" - while gesturing to our flawlessly contoured cheekbones. In fact,...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | ContactA week after claiming China would interfere in the upcoming federal election, many Aussies are not sure if Karen Andrews is the Home Affairs minister or a new nickname for Dan Andrews. Last week Karen Andrews made headlines for claiming China would interfere in the Australian election as if to conjure a Trump-like distrust in the election results, forgetting...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT The minor party that says what everyone's apparently thinking is under fire today, with allegations their candidates have been spotted in some interesting political uniforms. Pauline Hanson's One Nation party has been in the headlines this week after it was revealed she was running a number of 'ghost candidates' in electorates 1000s of kilometres away from where they...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT As the nation continues to grapple with its carbon emissions, the little island just off Australia's mainland has today urged people to take a look at the way they do things. The plea hasn't come from New Zealand, but from down on the Apple Isle of Tasmania. The people from other Southernmost state have reminded the rest of the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT If you read any of the weekend editions of The Age or Sydney Morning Herald over the weekend, then you would know that the Liberal Party is currently facing the very real risk of losing up to 6 seats to teal Independents at the 2022 Federal Election in 3 weeks time. And if you've driven through inner-east Melbourne lately,...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Local News | Contact It’s not often that you can surprise local man Phil McCann. Described as ‘unflappable’ the twenty-something tradie is known to breeze through life completely unfazed by anything, similar to that of one of those old push-button horses from the countryside who are used to several barefooted children riding it at once. A strange...