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FRANKIE DeGROOT | Local News | Contact As tensions between Australia and China escalate, Beijing has released a statement threatening to ban Australia’s 4th most valuable export. The iconic kangaroo scrotum coin purse, which ranks just behind coal, iron ore, and other tourist trinkets which are technically made in China as a critical cornerstone of the export economy and...

TRACEY BENDINGER | Local News | Contact After watching his beloved country erupt in protest over yet another completely avoidable murder of an African American man, former US President Barack Obama stepped in and delivered an address to the people that really should have come from the sitting President. In the 15-minute speech, Obama offered...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT WINNING: America's current need for a win is outmatched only by their need for new leadership. Luckily, President Donald Trump has taken to the Rose Garden to announce his latest win and how that will help the people who voted for him who still don’t have jobs.

FRANKIE DeGROOT | Local News | Contact As the US completes the transition from a dangerous place full of guns into a dangerous place full of guns and riots, some protestors have signaled that they are so dissatisfied with how their country is being run that they might even vote if they get around to it.

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT New allegations reveal that The Duke of York has "sought to falsely portray himself" as willing to talk to investigators over his ties to alleged child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, the US prosecutor in charge of the investigation has said. US attorney Geoffrey Berman said Prince Andrew "has repeatedly...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has rapidly changed his tune on the Coronavirus outbreak over the last few weeks, after initially dismissing the pandemic as 'just a little flu'. Since his initial attempts at denying the seriousness of the situation, Brazil has recorded over 650,000 cases of COVID-19 and 34,000...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT USA President and former host of the Celebrity Apprentice, Donald Trump (73), famously won the 2016 presidential election running on the promise to ‘Make America Great Again.’ Due to the USA having a history of massacres, slavery and something called the McBiscuit, Trump failed to win over minority voters...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A recent report by the prominent Australian research think tank P.C.R.C.O.F has today found undeniable correlations between wearing surf brand beanies with brims and getting offended by the mobilisation of black people around the world. Founded in early 2013, P.C.R.C.O.F (Poor Cunts Reading Comments On Facebook) is now...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | Contact Betoota Heights resident Naomi Wells (24) is feeling a bit on edge today as she deals with an overwhelming sense that the meaningless suffering in the world she lives in is matched only by her own futility to influence positive change before she is inevitably dead and forgotten.

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | Contact In USA cities such as Minneapolis and New York, some peaceful protests as part of the Black Lives Matter movement have turned to riots and looting in response to the rubber bullet fuelled American-style of crowd control. These images have not only prompted many to...