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20 October 2016. 14:25 EDITORIAL The rest of the world stood in horror today, as the last remaining media publications that cover politics live-streamed the most important political confrontation of modern history. Two of the must unlikable and untrustworthy American public figures battled it out for over an hour debating things that presidential candidates should have no business talking about. Namely: Emmy Awards...

19 October, 2016. 14:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact ROMAN DONAGHUE ENJOYED THE occasional Winfield Sky Blue after a few work drinks on a Friday afternoon, he'd never consider himself to be one of those smokers that doctors frown upon. Waking up the next morning, he'd always feel a 'cheeky guilt' over having a sneaky ciggie. However, he's tragically still feeling...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact COMEDIAN CARL BARRON HAS taken out the 17th annual Paul Kelly look-a-like contest in Hobart this afternoon, after nearly a decade of entering the competition. While travelling around Australia, Paul Kelly made his first public performance in 1974 in Hobart. He sang a few Bob Dylan numbers in a small Salamanca Place folk club - and the...

10 October 2016. 12:25 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A popular Ipswich grandmother says Donald Trump’s boasting about being able to sexually molest women with impunity is probably no worse than what a lot of men say to each other behind closed doors. The Republican candidate today faced a second live debate with Hillary Clinton today, amid revelations that he boasted of his...

23 September, 2016. 14:00 CLANCY OVERELL| Editor | CONTACT Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump has today condemned Australian expats living in the US during a supporter rally in California. The crowd roared as the New York entreprenuer reaffirmed his belief that “the worst elements in Australia are being pushed into the United States by the Australian government.” “The largest suppliers of B-list actors, bartenders, anti-semitics...

22 September, 2016. 13:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact SOUTHERN RAP SENSATION LUDACRIS had some choice words for the Australian prime minister last in New York after the pair shook hands at a meet and greet hosted by Melbournese businessman Antony Pratt. The heir to the Visy cardboard empire threw a party for the Liberal leader as he wraps up his whirlwind...

22 September, 2016. 15:00 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Recently single Hollywood superstar, Angelina Jolie, didn't appear too heartbroken by her imminent divorce to third husband Brad Pitt overnight. The 41-year-old was seen leaving a high end LA restuarant last night with a man who is rumoured to be her newest sexual conquest, Australian spin bowler Shane Keith Warne. Warne, who has in...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Western Australia is home to the highest rates of 'wanderlust' in the country, prompting the youth to travel far and wide before they return home to roost. One of the main reasons why young Western Australians yearn for the unknown is the prohibitive cost of getting blind in the Perth, their capital and the most isolated city...

10 September, 2016. 10:15CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The writers of the iconic DC films and comic superhero franchise, Batman, have today confirmed that the long held myth that the character doesn't have any superpowers is actually incorrect. The fictional superhero of Batman has appeared in American comic books since first appearing in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939, the character is also referred to by such...

7 September, 2016. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact ENJOYING HIS FIRST HOLIDAY in nearly a decade, Michael McGarvey and his new wife thought it was time to pack up and the sample the easy life. Landing in Los Angeles last week, the 34-year-old television news producer quickly went to work switching off and seeing all the sights that tinsel town...