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WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT After decades of corruption in state politics, Newcastle, Sydney and Wollongong (NSW) has turned a new page today. With the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) claiming another scalp today, Gladys Berejiklian has confirmed she will be resigning as Premier of NSW. Berejiklian is standing down as a result of the ICAC investigating her behaviour, including the awarding of...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT In news that no one would believe unless it was documented by people there, a tornado ripped through the NSW Central West yesterday afternoon - in yet another disastrous weather event that many believe could be related to our country's decision to burn fossil fuels at an accelerating rate for two centuries. Photos and videos from people on the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The good news is: For, now the NRL Grand Final will be going ahead at Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium this Sunday. In the face of a new, cruelly timed, outbreak in the River City - the Queensland Premier and her health experts are keeping a close eye on any new cases in the state's South-East. However, Annastacia Palaszczuk has always said...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT There's some good news for regional Australians today! For the first time in decades, the party that is paid to represent people from the bush, is actually going to fight for them. Not on issues like woeful underfunding of health and education services, or the scourge of crystal methamphetamine through local communities, or the mice plague that's about...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The pressure is on the Queensland State Government to formulate a border policy ahead of Christmas, as Australian families separated by the Tweed river remain desperate to see each other. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said she hopes the National Cabinet meeting on Friday will provide a roadmap on reopening that will help Australia's struggling tourism industry, but has done her...

EFFIE BATEMAN | BRISBANE | CONTACT A young insurance claim worker has today made the mortal mistake of complaining about her life to her friend, who has a monopoly on all forms of fatigue, it’s reported. Naomi Harris is said to have made a phone call, looking bleary-eyed and slightly disheveled from a weekend on the piss. Slowly blinking, Naomi had muttered something about needing...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A sun-kissed vagrant that bathes in public toilets and charges his phone at McDonalds is still a dreamboat, according to local girls. After three years of unemployment, spent bouncing around headlands in a non-roadworthy van that he bought from his uncle with an interest free-loan from his grandmother, local surfie Jake Garbs is more desirable than ever. Hundreds of his...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT Sydney residents have just a little more to look forward to as local indie band Sticky Fingers release a new album just in time for Camperdown Park reopening for picnics/benders. The five-piece released the new album to celebrate how groups of five vaccinated people are allowed to congregate in parks with their style of psychedelic rock fused with reggae-rock...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT There have been no new locally acquired community cases recorded in Queensland as people turn out in large numbers to get their jabs at walk-in hubs. The state also detected no new cases in the 16 rooms they have made available for hotel quarantine, making it a "double donut" day. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said at least 56,412 jabs were administered...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT After effectively making a career out of calling out bigotry on the internet, Fitzroy woman Charlotte Meredith-Thistlethwaite (30) has today proven that she too is prone to a bit of old fashioned prejudice. In 2015, she was banging the drum about not judging all Muslims by the actions of all a select few of lunatics in Paris and...