Elderly Couple Still A Bit Confused About That ‘Cigarette’ They Shared At Bluesfest
31 March, 2016. 17:35
CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact
After having returned from their first ever Bluesfest two days ago, Bruce and Barb Houston are still puzzled as to what on earth happened on the last night of the festival.
The married couple from Toowoomba, Queensland endured a peculiar "dizzy-spell" when they decided to share their first cigarette since they both quit smoking in 1992.
"I...
Sydney boat cruise company takes the party into international waters
8 June, 2015. 17:10
ALEXUS COBETT | NSW | Contact
A prominent Sydney cruise company is making tens of thousands of dollars a month offering a special ‘out-of-sight’ package on the outskirts of Sydney Harbour.
But where are they going?
They aren't going anywhere. Just 200 nautical miles away from land, into The Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), an area beyond and adjacent to the territorial Australian sea.
The post-Martin-Place-siege tourism...
Your Grandmother Will Definitely Share This Story About A Pensioner Bashing Home Invaders
8 March, 2015. 17:10
ALEXUS COBETT | North-NSW | Contact
Three men remain in hospital today after what is believed to have been a late-night home invasion gone sour in Taree on friday.
The group of three to four suspected ‘junkies’ have been terrorising the streets of Taree for some time, with a string of break and enters.
However it appears the serial burglars have recently...
Return Of Jumper Weather Greatly Appreciated By Nation’s Fatties
ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact
As the Southern hemisphere enjoys the first real frost of 2018, millions of portly, rotund, full-figured and bubbly Australians are looking forward to the cooler months ahead.
Not because they prefer footy to cricket, but because they can put their crippling body image problems to sleep until November at the very latest.
While the inclement weather begins to roll in over...
The 11 Worst Online Reviews Australia Has Ever Received
ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact
These National Parks are the postcards that Australia sells to the rest of the world. They may seem like the perfect place to visit on your next holiday.
However, nearly every major national park in the country has had a handful of one-star ratings on various travel sites, ranging from trip Advisor to Yelp. You might...
Willy Moon and Natalia Kills “embarrass entire nation”; Diana-style tribute forms at NZ High Commission
17 March, 2015. 15:01
ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact
FLOWERS AND TRIBUTES are being left near the entrance of the New Zealand High Commission in London today as thousands of mourners stop to remember the death of British manners in Auckland this week.
British-born entertainers Natalia Kills and Willy Moon have been criticised internationally for their "profoundly un-British" behaviour that has...
“If you are a black diabetic that can’t read, you need to make better lifestyle choices”
11 March, 2015. 17:30
CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact
Tony Abbott's key Indigenous advisers have slammed his description of living in remote communities as a "lifestyle choice", saying the statement is "hopeless", "disrespectful" and simplistic.
Yesterday, Mr Abbott backed a plan in Western Australia to close more than 100 remote communities and move more than 1,000 people, saying "what we can't...
Abbott Government embraces International Women’s Day with “Guidelines To Female Happiness”
8 March, 2015. 15:03
INGRID DOULTON (OAM) | Professor of Women's Issues | Contact
A GOVERNMENT-FUNDED report was leaked via Wikileaks this morning, outlining measures that Australian women could take in order to achieve unbridled happiness.
Launched to coincide with International Women's Day, the study is the latest attempt by the government to try to solve the 'unhappy women' problem that has dogged the Abbott...
Redfern yuppies struggle to mask excitement over Aboriginal evictions
CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact
Only 100 metres from an internationally-condemned spectacle of Aboriginal dispossession, six inner-city trendies are drinking coffee and playing with their iPads, on Redfern's Abercrombie street. They say they are exhausted.
"It's just so hard, you know. We are pretty much the new Redfern community - and while we feel for the Aboriginal people being evicted on The Block...
ABC’s Four Corners “unsure” about which industry to cripple next
19 February, 2015. 15:04
ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact
THE PRODUCERS from ABC's Four Corners are have revealed that they're unsure which industry they'd like to derail next.
Earlier this week, the news and current affairs programme aired a story which exposed systematic and brutal cruelty within Australia's greyhound racing community - which has led to widespread condemnation by both animals rights groups and the...
