Politics

20 January, 2016 11:45 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The national president of the ALP, Mark Butler, has today confirmed that the struggling political party's new outdoor campaign has been launched in response to growing concerns that the Australian opposition leader might have died. "The Australian Labor Party has seen a lot of infighting amongst about whether or not we write Bill Shorten off completely," "A...

IMRAN GASHKORI | Sports Editor | CONTACT Local Australian tennis prodigy, Theo Fukinakakas (11) has been informed by the games greats that he is too much self-discipline to represent Australia. Despite boasting an unbeaten record in state representative tennis, the South Betoota Boys High student has been shunned by both his local district as well as the greater tennis community. Coaches, ex-players and overly protective, unfulfilled...

8 December, 2016 17:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Yesterday afternoon it became evident that Barnaby Joyce Member For New England was in the running to be chosen as the next Deputy Prime Minister Of Australia. As Australia's oldest and favourite newspaper, as well as Australia's most read Outback publication, we took it upon ourselves to inform Barnaby of the wants and needs of...

ERROL PARKER |Editor-at-large | Contact Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has today admitted to accidentally sending a text message to our very own, Clancy Overell, and then proceeding to negotiate a bribe that would persuade our editor against leaking the correspondence. I can get your Catholic children into a real private school It is believed Turnbull's controversial text messages were meant for the...

3 January, 2016 10:35 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The 4,000 tenants living in the iconic public housing commission (commonly known as The Towers) in the Redfern/Waterloo area of inner Sydney have been promised by Premier Mike Baird that will have the opportunity to remain in the suburb when their entire community is knocked down and rebuilt as part of plans for a new...

31 December, 2015. 11:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IT'S A LEADING cause of greenhouse emissions. Socialists moan about it all the time. Scientists have told us for years that it's going to end up dooming the planet. Methane occurs naturally in the environment but the overwhelming majority of it comes from deep in the bowels of livestock and people who...

June 30, 2015. 10:40 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact A late entry into this year's Archibald Prize has left judges stunned, as the daughter of Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott submits the first official portrait of her father. According to the Herald, it has been revealed that the trustee board of the famous art prize made an exception to all submission deadlines,...

22 December, 2015. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact PRIME MINISTER MALCOLM TURNBULL and his government have, in recent weeks, been openly toying with industrial relations policy, including the hot topic of penalty rates. Coming from a background in trade unions, one would expect opposition leader Bill Shorten to have a differing opinion on the matter. "I don't need to tell people...

11 December, 2015 16:45 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Leader of the Opposition, Bill Shorten has apologised after he was caught on camera using his phone while driving - but has made it clear that he was not texting while behind the wheel of a white four-wheel-drive in images tweeted by journalists on Thursday night. "I know it's not much consolation, but I want to clarify that...

10 December, 2015. 12:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A CHANCE DISCOVERY in a northern Sydney creek bed has been heralded by paleontologists as the natural science find of a lifetime. As this type of dinosaur is quite rare, especially in Australia, the discovery has baffled Dr Allen Plant from the Sydney University paleontology department. "We typically don't see anything this 'out of place' in Australia. A...