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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT In true Labor fashion, NSW Opposition leader Michael Daley has today done his very best to Hillary Clinton an open lay-up. With the world still reeling from a tragic act of white supremacist terrorist in our own backyard, Daley has done his best to read the room and deciding bashing migrants might be his best bet at winning an...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Another humid Monday night means Australia's favourite panel show is back on the airwaves. Tonight, yet another panel made up of the ageing bourgeois will attempt to solve one of our nation's problems - this time around, it's the Townsville floods and the devastating effects that rain event had on the local cattle industry. So in...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Close to half of Michael Stimpson's monthly wage is now set to be carved off by the bank after the sprightly 19-year-old apprentice signed a car loan this afternoon. The local apprentice cabinet maker borrowed close to three-quarters of his annual wage at a predatory 12% interest - but if you ask him, that's just...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The two men trying to win this year's Federal Election have declined the opportunity to lambast the man responsible for publishing thousands of Islamophobic news articles in recent times. Both Scott Morrison, the Prime Nightwatchman of Australia, and the man trying to take his job, Bradbury Shorten, have said they're both in the business...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | Contact Ringers Western Outlets across Brisbane and the South East Corner are today shutting up shop early. This comes after the stores within 100km's of the CMC Rocks Festival in Ipswich have been striped barer than a 1960's block of Queensland land. With the sell out festival taking place this weekend in the cosmopolitan centre of Ipswich, concrete cowboys...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | Contact A single solider squad has concluded a 12 second kitchen-manhunt for a rogue moth that ultimately ended in the moth being squashed and killed, leaving a grey smudge on the kitchen wall as the final act of defiance in it’s renegade life. The unnamed moth first gained prominence one week ago when it was briefly mistaken for a mosquito...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Just hours after losing his job when Facebook shutdown his wildly popular  "Australians against Sharia" page, the Bosnian teenager behind the page has been picked up by the national broadcaster to spearhead their election coverage. Zlatan Grbić, a 16-year-old social media manager from Sarajevo, said via Twitter that he's 'pleased' to take on the new...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact International man of mystery, magic and escape artistry, David Blaine, has defied death once again today by taking a flight on a crash-prone Boeing 737 Max 8. The silky-voiced New Yorker took to the skies over America, shortly after Boeing and President Trump declared that the flying death trap was not airworthy. It is understood...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A Betoota Dolphins player who allegedly told police he'd consumed sixteen tins of Jim Beam & Cola, then recorded a blood alcohol level seven times over the legal limit after crashing his car, has fronted court with his confused barista today. Myles Arthur Plank, of the French Quarter, appeared before Betoota Local Court this morning...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Analysts from Betoota's favourite online betting company, CuckBet, have released odds this morning that point to the fact that the Sydney Roosters are set to have this season's premiership stripped them once their cooked books start to cool over the next few years. Many in the NRL have conceded that this season is 'basically a...