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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact JUST A WEEK OR TWO AFTER he was made a senior portfolio manager at his boutique Martin Place private asset management firm, Michael McAlister said he treated himself to a new suit. Not just any bit of common rag, this one was different. Sourced from the finest merino wool and stitched together by the most-skilled of...

28 June, 2016. 16:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IN THE LEAD UP TO THIS election, former prime minister Tony Abbott hired somebody under 35 who suggested he reconnect with young voters in his electorate through the meme medium. The first target in his crosshairs is challenger James Mathison, who he sees as a threat to his reelection because young people...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact GILBERT KLOGHEART DOESN'T KNOW how the world could be heating up if the eastern seaboard has just experienced their coldest weather episode in 20 years. Despite loud and ghastly shouting matches with his adult children, the 59-year-old remains unswayed on the issue of climate change. Even as the scientific facts and evidence began to mount...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THE WORLD IS A DANGEROUS PLACE which is why God gave us guns to defend ourselves. However, in this socialist paradise formally known as Australia, ordinary kind-hearted citizens aren't allowed to arm themselves for their own protection. So rather than risk a lengthy gaol term and a criminal conviction, law-abiding Australians are being forced to get...

27 June, 2016 14:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT An innocent puppy has died today in yet another example of photogenic animals being dragged by humans in environments that don't suit them for a selfie. Rover (5 months) was stolen from his owner's front yard in Terrigal beach on saturday and dragged into the ocean by a bunch of excited tourists who then passed...

26 June, 2016. 11:30 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THE MANY THOUSANDS OF private schoolboys that witnessed the latest Wallabies defeat last night have been left picking up the pieces, as their mothers pick their beer-soaked polo shirts from their bedroom floors. Though the series defeat was secured last week in Melbourne, this game was about saving face. Only two hours later, the...

25 June, 2016 11:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Earlier this month the Coalition government slipped behind Labor for the first time since Malcolm Turnbull replaced Tony Abbott,  according to the latest Fairfax-Ipsos poll. But while the numbers suggest that 55 per cent of voters expect the Coalition to survive, 75 per cent of respondents say they will make their decision on policy rather...

23 June, 2016 11:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Australia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister For Agriculture Barnaby Joyce has been caught on video apparently smoking marijuana while on the campaign trail in New England last night. It is believed that while visiting a bowls club in northe-west NSW town of Guyra, the Deputy Prime Minister got a bit carried away during the State Of Origin...

21 June, 2016. 14:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact RANTALISM IS THE FLAVOUR of the month in world journalism at the moment - and there's none more successful that British-born American television entertainer, John Oliver. The unique fashion in which the 39-year-old Brummie mashes comedy, journalism and yelling has taken the world by storm, inspiring a generation of mid-career television presenters...

20 June, 2016. 13:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THE PRIME MINISTER HAS personally asked his Treasurer to stop vaping in plain view of journalists and other media professionals. Scott Morrison, despite never smoking, has taken up vaping in recent weeks to cope with the added stresses of a re-election campaign. This has begun to upset the opposition leader, who says the entire...