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EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | Contact Think you can tell the difference between Donald Trump and Ja'mie King? Take this quiz! WHO SAID IT? 1: “People love me. And you know what? I've been very successful. Everybody loves me.” 2: “It’s a dumb thing. I think a lot of public school people are dumb.” 3: “I think when they were choosing people, they wanted someone who was good...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Opposition leader Peter Dutton has softly campaigned over the weekend, vowing to get Australia back on track. Back to the same track it was on when Scott Morrison lost the election in 2022. Because that was the right track, according to Dutton himself. "Australia was derailed when Scott Morrison was defeated at the last election, now...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Australia’s most self-made inheritor, Gina Rinehart, has stunned the tech world by acquiring TikTok. The surprise move is reportedly part of Gina's ambitious plan to boost her profile in the United States, much like Rupert Murdoch did with Fox News, but with fewer conspiracy theories and naked mammary glands and more mining propaganda. According...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactAs the world seems to grow increasingly divided as billionaire oligarchs amp up their efforts to infiltrate governments, media, and social media platforms, it can be confirmed that everything would be a lot better if Lord of The Rings was trending again, if not for some much needed escapism but also the wholesome portrayal of male friendships. The fantasy...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactIn yet another example of life imitating art, tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg has fully completed his transformation into becoming one of Trump's henchman, roughly one year after he started dressing like a knockoff Jack Harlow. Though this has surprised many people, who forgot that Facebook literally started off as a platform to rate the attractiveness of women, it hasn’t...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The weird rat-like people of Sydney awoke this morning to the aftermath of their annual Queensland-strength thunderstorm, buzzing with excitement as they swapped storm stories over their morning coffees. For many, the "biggest storm in years" offered a rare opportunity to post grainy videos of lightning strikes on Instagram and complain about the mild...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact People around the country are watching on as a fucking casino chain teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, wondering who the hell could fuck something up this bad. The Star, with casinos in Brisbane, Sydney and the Gold Coast, is struggling due to the repercussions suffered for laundering vast sums of cash for criminal gangs...

IMRAN GASHKORI | Sport | Contact An elder of our town's Greek community has refreshed his interest in cricket this morning. Immediately after learning a young man from Sydney with a Hellenic background was putting one of the best bowlers in the world to the sword, Yiannis Karagiannis (78), came into the living room and placed his hands on his hips. Watching...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Lawyers for dancing nerd Rachael "Raygun" Gunn are demanding $10,000 in legal fees from the owner of a small comedy club that had planned to stage a show about how we all paid for her to go over to Paris and bring great shame upon this great nation of ours. Instead of taking part in...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A local man has been added to a number of federal and state watchlists today after ordering a new Tesla Model 3 with the white leather option. Brock Endick, a 34-year-old logistics manager at WestBet Aviation, will pick the new vehicle up in the new year once the paperwork has been filed with his novated...