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CLANCY OVERELL  | Editor | CONTACT As the last remaining major party that can still oust their leader at any given moment, it seems the National Party are gearing up for another spill. First cab off the rank is former leader and cold-blooded political phoenix, Barnaby Joyce MP, who appears to be making moves to take back his job from the awkward Christian who...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT Get up off the couch and get a job you lazy bludger! That's the message to 'lounge lizards' in the city from the highly paid welfare recipient who is standing in as the Prime Minister of this country this week. Leaning into the 'if you have a go you'll get a go' rhetoric that is peddled by Scotty...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Claims that the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is only around 63% effective are unfounded and don't worry, she'll be right, according to the government. Speaking this morning in Canberra, Health Minister Greg Hunt and the nation's cheif medical officer Professor Paul Kelly said there's nothing to be concerned about. "She'll be right," said Mr Hunt. "The Thereputic Goods Administration...

CLANCY OVERELL  | Editor | CONTACT The Brisbane lockdown has been lifted! As the clock strikes 6:00pm Queensland time tonight, with no new cases reported, the people of the River City are free! "This is the best news we could have hoped for, absolutely the best news," Ms Palaszczuk. No cases were reported since 6:00pm on Friday, when Queensland authorities imposed a snap lockdown to...

FRANKIE DeGROOT | Local News | Contact At some point each one of us will come face to face with devastating results after a test. For some it’s a doctor quietly explaining a blob on an x-ray; for others it’s a DNA test that didn’t say what it was supposed to. For local man Phil Cross that day was last Tuesday, when a simple...

EFFIE BATEMAN | BRISBANE| CONTACT Local woman Lisa Verrier thought she’d be able to score some extra cash by completing online surveys but has quickly found the process is simply not worth the $5 fuel voucher. It’s alleged the twenty-five-year-old had racked up quite the serious credit card debt and was looking for ways to make easy money that was above board. Rather...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT Reflecting on himself during the working-from-home early mark he has given himself every Friday, local bachelor Keilan Cobb sipped a mid-strength beer on his Old City District balcony where no one but the walls of the wheat-works turned apartments could see him. To an onlooker Cobb may appear to be any self-hating rat race participant ringing in the end...

EFFIE BATEMAN | BRISBANE| CONTACT Two poop shy girls allegedly entered an hour long stand off in a public bathroom today, as neither was able to make a courtesy flush, it’s reported. Local woman Leslie Thompson tells our reporter that she’d been terrified of using a public bathroom ever since ‘the incident’, which our reporter knows involved beef vindaloo and a litre of Mountain...

EFFIE BATEMAN | BRISBANE| CONTACT As local bloke Samuel Johnston lies in bed and stares at the ceiling, he finds himself in a terrible conundrum. You see, he has a sneaking suspicion that his alarm should be going off any second now. Or even worse, it should have rung already. But if he concedes defeat and rolls over to check his phone, he may lose...

FRANKIE DeGROOT | Local News | Contact As automotive manufacturers try to one-up each other with increasingly sophisticated technology, a popular addition to the dashboard of many new cars is Push-To-Start, a simple system whereby the vehicle can be started with the push of a button rather than the twist of a key. But at least one motorist doesn’t see what all the fuss is...