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18 March, 2015. 11:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact   A spokesperson for the exiled founder of Wikileaks.org has today revealed an ultimatum. Julian Assange, the creator and curator of the international whistle-blower website, has promised to "cause havoc" if he is not given a safe passage to a Caribbean Island of his choosing - from his current hideout in the Ecuadorian embassy...

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...

17 March, 2015. 11:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Former Palmer United Party senator Jacqui Lambie has kicked things off with yet another controversial tirade, this time regarding her plans for an independent Tasmania. Her "dream for Tasmania" would see the island leaving Australia as a federal state, and her leaving the Australian senate as well. In yet another shocking and confusing senate...

13 March, 2015. 15:01 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact POLICE NEAR DARWIN are once again on the lookout for a "shark of biblical proportions"  after the remains of a 17-metre crocodile were spotted from the air. Officials from Charles Darwin University and the NT Police have confirmed that the crocodile was attacked by a "super-sized marine predator". Teams are currently attempting to...

13 March, 2015. 11:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact As of this morning, Senator Lazarus, the so-called "brick with eyes" - is the second Australian senator to leave the Palmer United Party after Jacqui Lambie resigned from the party to become an independent in November. Senator Lazarus, a former professional rugby league superstar, will now serve as an independent senator while also...

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...

11 March, 2015. 14:05 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact WHEN IT COMES to Andrew Bolt, people don't sit on the fence. Either you love him, or you hate him. He's an award-winning journalist, columnist, radio commentator, blogger and television host that shouts the right-wing agenda from the rooftops. But what if it all was an act? It just may be, because last night on...

11 March, 2015. 12:00 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Politicians, staffers and campaigners from both sides of the indecipherable political spectrum were breaking a sweat today in the annual NSW Pre-election Basketball Jam. The tournament, which was hosted at the iconic Blacktown PCYC, saw a ferocious LNP outfit of Mike Baird and the NSW "Driberals" up against leader of the opposition Luke Foley...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact A 23-year old living in the Brisbane suburb of West End has opened up to The Betoota Advocate today about the grim state of affairs for women living in predominantly-male sharehouses. "I live with four guys. Two work in construction, one works in real estate and the other is a full-time student," "They are all single,...

10 March, 2015. 12:33 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Islāmic State recruit the British media decried as "Britain's White Jihadi" in December, proclaiming he was a "major coup for the terrorist group", is actually a skinny, baby-faced boy from Lane Cove in Sydney's north shore, who's in Northern Syria completing his expedition and community service components for his Gold Duke of Edinburgh (DOE) award. The...