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23 March, 2016. 09:35 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Shortly after learning that the capital of Belgian is known as Brussels, local mechanic Todd Daisley has today declared that an entire religious community of 1.6 billion people is pure evil. The 52-year-old says he doesn't like what he's been hearing about this specific monotheistic Abrahamic religion lately. He says it's almost ruined Easter," "They...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IT WAS THE TRIP of a lifetime for the former prime minister, who arrived safely this afternoon in Sydney. After dedicating much of his life to the Australian public, John Howard thought it was about time to let down whatever hair he had left. "I was looking into doing those riverboat cruises you see on television...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Tens of thousands of revellers around Australia instantly regret buying that first pint of Guinness on St Patrick's Day each year. If they can power through until the bottom of the glass, they sure as hell aren't going to be ordering another one. "There's two reasons why I'm switching to XXXX Gold after this pint," said Brisbane...

16 March, 2016. 18:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT In December last year, US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton claimed that GOP rival Donald Trump's slanderous comments about Islam were being used by the Islamic State as propaganda to encourage the Muslim diaspora into radicalisation. "He is becoming ISIS's best recruiter," she said. "They are going to people, showing videos of Donald Trump insulting...

14 March, 2016. 15:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Donald Trump was met with a warm and peaceful reception in Harlem, New York this morning - after making a surprising appearance at a community event aimed at creating unity between America's most downtrodden minority groups. Shortly his recent campaign rally in the Florida township of Boca Raton, the presidential hopeful directed his private jet...

4 March, 2016. 15:35 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact SLATED AS BEING ONE OF THE most electric sporting events of the year, the five remaining Republican presidential candidates will meet again at WrestleMania 32 on April 3. Prior to the hotly anticipated cage match between Shaun McMahon and The Undertaker, the latter will adjudicate the scheduled republican debate from inside the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A Donald Trump rally in Virginia took an interesting turn yesterday, after the Republican President took several bites out of a raw onion on stage, to the delight of his supporters. While visiting southwestern Radford, Virginia, Trump praised rural voters by sampling local produce on stage. "This is the greatest onion I have ever eaten!" shouted Trump. "No Mexican could...

29 January, 2016 16:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT More than two decades after his first Academy Award nomination, Leonardo DiCaprio has secured the best actor Oscar for his role in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's survival and revenge odyssey The Revenant. This Oscars award ends a string of Academy snubs - that made DiCaprio one of Hollywood's most revered and bankable stars - but it also confirms that...

29 February, 2016. 15:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact SOMEBODY PINCH MICHAEL CATON, because he still thinks he's dreaming. "When the bastards ask me what I'm wearing, I tell 'em Tarocash of Strathpine." laughs Caton. The 72-year-old arrived in Los Angeles yesterday ahead of the 88th Academy Awards, where his latest film The Last Cab To Darwin, has been nominated for Best Foreign...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT   Despite a disastrous track record of destroying the environment, declaring unnecessary wars and warehousing poor people inside prisons - the world is still being run by people born during the post-World War II baby boom (1946-1964) - it has been confirmed. This particular generation, also known as 'The Baby Boomers' have been heavily criticised over the last thirty years for their...