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12 January, 2015. 15:00 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact GREG Norman has returned to the golf course for the first time since his chainsaw accident. In September last year, Norman injured his left hand with the power tool as he trimmed a tree in his Los Angeles garden. However, The Daily Mail revealed in December that Norman had in fact lost his hand due to...

IMRAN GASHKORI | Sports Journalist | [email protected] It was a shock discovery for the 79-year old self-confessed “sports nut” Alan Starkey over the weekend, during an annual family brunch celebrating his wife Irene’s 75th Birthday. A heated discussion around the dining room table at Mr Starkey’s South Betoota residence on Sunday morning resulted in the former boxer and junior Rugby League coach...

23 April, 2015. 15:45 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected] IN JANUARY Kanye West told us he was the "Only One" - with his much-talked about collaboration with Paul McCartney. A world first for cross-genre collaborations and the first single released by Kanye since his last solo album "Yeezus" in 2013. It was during these sessions in the studio that McCartney, the...

10 January, 2015. 15:04 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THE Islamic State is reportedly being forced to start using hybrid vehicles as their fuel supply begins to run out. Since July, the US has been targeting oil infrastructure inside ISIS-controlled Iraq and Syria to remove their capability to refine oil in to fuel. Toyota has been planning a diesel-electric version of its...

IMRAN GASHKORI | Sports Journalist | [email protected] 9 December, 2014. 19:55 Today, after years of close association, The Parramatta District Rugby League Football Club has formally entered the inner sanctum of the Hillsong Church - they are now owned by them. This is the first time a professional sporting team in has been bought by a religious organisation and is what some describe as...

  CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The greater Queensland Channel Country has come together today in support and praise of a local identity who despite old age, continues to service his community. At 71, Mr Jack Pearson, a fourth-generation cattle grazier and founder of E.H. Pearson Pastoral Company, currently sits at number 45 899 on the BRW Rich List, with an estimated worth of...

8 January, 2015. 08:59 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected] 34-year old Betoota North mother of three, Alycia Curtin says that while her shameful "third-of-a-pack-a-day" smoking habit is not something she is proud of... it's not that bad - considering she has close friends who still go to nightclubs. "Look, I am a mother of three healthy children -  Which means I have...

7 January, 2014. 12:34 IMRAN GASHKORI | Editor-at-large | Contact It's day two of the fourth test in this summer's India/Australia epic. Twelve men have the attention of the nation as they battle it out on the pitch. The game is cricket and cricket fans are like no other. The crowds and cameras are focused on twelve men wearing the iconic baggy green...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact AN enterprising New South Wales farmer has made millions selling his ruined work clothing to the inner city cultural elite. Life on the land is growing less attractive to young people as a future career in agriculture seems quite dim - particularly with the ongoing drought. However, not for 63-year-old wheat grower and sheep grazier Michael Clarkedale...

INGRID DOULTON | Community and social | Contact In the wake of the 212 drug-related arrests at Sydney's City Limits music festival over the weekend, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has today announced that the state of New South Wales has been left with no choice but introduce a new model to combat drug use at music festivals. The implementation of new 3D scanners looks to...