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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Aussie junior football coaches from both codes of rugby were left rather embarrassed over the weekend, after a bizarre, almost supernatural, phenomena  took place during an under 12s football match between the Bedourie Bullants and the Windorah Wild Cats. It was just after half-time in the mid-north Channel Country derby, when Bedourie Bullants U12s Blue fullback, Charlie Schifcofske, broke the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact An elderly Asian migrant from Betoota's Flight Path District has left his grandchild's social circle in complete shock today after blurting out one of the most offensive racially-charged comments anyone has ever heard since first incarnation of One Nation. This rather shocking statement comes as a surprise to the diverse group of friends, given the fact that the old...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Editor | Contact Andrew Hopkins, a 67-year-old accountant from Betoota Ponds has called for a ban. A ban on ‘bans’, unless they are things that are ideologically aligned with his worldview like banning the Burqa, late night pub trade or kids from using smartphones. Hopkins explained that the spread of political correctness has gone too far. The Ponds resident, who has been vocal in...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact In another example of a South-African who is living in California making a fuckwit of himself, comedian and night show host Trevor Noah is under fire after footage from a 2013 stand-up special resurfaced, showing the comic making crude and derogatory jokes about Aboriginal women. This comes one month before South African-born, US Daily Show host Noah, 34, embarks on a...

LOUIS BURKE | Editor | Contact Eight members of the group chat currently titled “Dusty Boyz” (previously “ESAD Dan XD kek”) believe they have had their privacy violated as chat member Leon Wilson (23) added his friend Richard Hunter (19) without discussing it with the group first. Chat member Evan Stewart (24) states he wishes Wilson had of asked the group for permission before adding...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact It's day three, arguably day four of Splendour In The Grass 2018, and by all accounts it has been a spectacular weekend for both guests and artists thus far. From Lorde to Vampire Weekend, to Gang of Youths, Methyl Ethel, Stella Donnelly, Miguel, Khalid, CHVRCHES, Girl Talk and the never-not-touring festival staple, The Wombats - there's something for everyone heading into the hip hop-heavy last hurrah ofKendrick Lamar. However, one prominent subculture...

LEROY PERCIVAL | Central-Coast Queensland Folk-Rock Editor | CONTACT A local man has conceded this morning that his decision to tuck into a jar of iSnack 2.0 was a pretty bold move - similar to Vegemite's decision to actually make these weird concoction in the first place.   Anthony Dugan, from the riverside district, declared that it was this decision - along with the one where...

TRACEY BENDINGER | Social Nuances | CONTACT The head mistress of Betoota’s most elite and prestigious all-girls private school has today had to call on the help of the Australian Federal Police Riot Squad Division after 3 average looking tradies went shirtless while working on school grounds. Ms. Gaelic, head mistress of Welsham School, called the AFP in an absolute panic, reporting that the girls...

LEROY PERCIVAL | Central-Coast Queensland Folk-Rock Editor | Contact North Betoota local Taylor Morrissete has today been left baffled and annoyed when a logistics mistake resulted in 10,000 spoons being delivered to her house yesterday morning.   One thing that didn’t cross her mind, however, was the word ‘ironic’.   The part-time florist and culinary enthusiast had ordered herself a new knife online, when her trusty...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Despite the cold weather in Northern New South Wales, it appears that the Byron Shire has completely sold out of water balloons. That's according to Target floor managers and newsagent owners across the region. "I'm not sure what's going on" said one Newsagent, Butler Parkway. "Must be a big water bomb fight happening this weekend or something" "We've had a lot...