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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT South Australian wine regions are reportedly in a panic today, and it isn't necessarily because the Prime Minister has failed to hose down growing hostilities with our largest export market because it's much easier, from a marketing viewpoint, to blame the growing Melbourne aged care deaths on China for inventing this virus, than it is to admit his...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT There were scenes of jubilance at The Pineapple Hotel in Kangaroo Point earlier this afternoon, as the three men in Queensland who follow every match of AFL - even when the Lions aren't playing well - learnt the news that AFL grand final will be played at the Gabba in Brisbane on October 24, marking the first time...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT An out and proud sports novice, who often boasts about having never sat through a full 80 minutes of rugby league appears to be quite up to date with the life and times of Kalyn Ponga. Despite having a degenerate rugby league fan for a father, mother, brother, sister, brother-in-law and boyfriend - Megan Brooks (26, Betoota Grove) says...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Not one for ever struggling with even the most tongue twisting last names, Ray 'Rabbits' Warren has earned his stripes in cross cultural commentating since the days of Tommy Raudonikis. Since then, the NRL playing group has only gotten more diverse - as rugby league quickly overtakes soccer as the game of choice for the many waves of migrants...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT After a promising start to the season, the Parramatta Eels have returned to the usual Parramatta-like form that is generally expected from the club this close to finals. Rugby league fans sat in shock last night, as the Eels were forced to endure a 40-12 hiding at the hands of the South Sydney Rabbitohs. This marks what many to believe...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Australian boxing experts have scolded Jeff Horn's trainer Glenn Rushton for appearing to exploit his pummelled fighter into another round before being overruled by the rest of the team in his corner, who called a stop to the massacre during last night's super welterweight fight against Tim Tszyu. Horn was comprehensively out-boxed by Tszyu who gave Townsville a night...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT Townsville Stadium has just borne witness to an incredible tribute this evening. A short time ago, in a scene stranger than fiction, 20,000 northerners just went silent and bowed their heads in a touching display of respect for their leader. With the undercards well underway for the Horn v Tszyu fight this evening, his Royal Highness Johnathan...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT In a to be expected story from Townsville, the Member for Kennedy has raised a few eyebrows this afternoon. The maverick MP Bob Katter did so when he strolled into the Townsville Stadium demanding that the organisers of the Horn v Tszyu fight let him be the ring announcer. "Now listen here you lot, whose bloody organising this...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT The punch on the nation has been dying to see is officially on! After a few weeks of verbal jabs, billionaire magnate Clive Palmer and Western Australian Premier Mark 'Money' McGowan are set to jump in the ring tonight. The fight is scheduled to take place as the biggest bout on the undercard to Jeff Horn and Tim Tszyu...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The good people of Townsville say they are still unsure whether or not any of these two blokes fighting tonight can actually throw 'em. This observation only boosts interest in tonight's super welterweight fight between Brisbane schoolteacher Jeff Horn (20-2-1) and Tim Tszyu (15-0-0), son of legendary fighter Kostya, in Townsville tonight. The pair are fighting for the IBF Australasian...