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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Federal Opposition leader Peter Dutton's hopes for beginning 2025 with a bang have been neutralised by a cruel glitch in the Gregorian calendar this week. With an election set to take place in the next four months, Dutton desperately needed to start the year with an Australia Day debate, which would have given him yet another opportunity to label...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Australian grain growers are this week watching US President Trump's every move with baited breath. Every tweet and every press conference. The wildly unpredictable manner in which Trump conducts international diplomacy has scared the Australian agricultural sector for many years - but sometimes it can work in their favour. This is unlike the bitter pandemic years, when Donald Trump stitched...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Ever since their stellar efforts in convincing Australians to reject an Indigenous Voice, the Liberal Party has been gaining momentum as legitimate challengers in the 2025 election. While there was no real societal gain from undermining the referendum, it became an ideal opportunity for Opposition leader Peter Dutton to insert himself into the headlines - with pictures of him...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact The Penrith Panthers dynasty is over. The Bulldogs Premiership window has closed. The Broncos, Cowboys, Sharks and Storm can all get fucked. Because Latrell is looking fit, and Wayne is back home. These are the sentiments currently echoing around South Sydney worksites, butchers, office building break rooms, barbershops - and on the wharves the Port Of Botany. The diaspora of Rabbitohs members,...

MONTY BENFICA | Amusements | CONTACT The world has let out a collective, melancholic sigh - as the US government and TikTok do a 180 on their US ban. This has lead to the triumphant return of over 100 million American TikTok users to the platform after only 24 hours off-grid The world, particularly the non-American, English-speaking world, says that the 24-hour ban on Americans was...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact The cracks are starting to show in the Liberal branches around NSW, as the conservative members begin getting overruled by the party's yuppie strategists. While Peter Dutton does not believe in quotas for females, the NSW Liberal Party is well aware that they need to be pre-selecting as many of them as possible if they want to stop losing...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact The Australian Open's exclusive broadcast partner, Channel Nine, will today be rolling out the most prominent 'ic' on their payroll, in an effort to win back over Eastern Europeans audiences. The network has moved quickly after Serbian tennis fans took offence to comments made by Nine journalist Tony Jones during the weekend's live coverage of the event. Furthermore, the greatest...

MONTY BENFICA | Amusements | CONTACT Experts say the brief ban on the American operations of social media platform Tiktok has brought about the return of other forgotten platforms, like Tumblr - and everything that comes with that. Tiktok, which went dark for all American users over the weekend, has seemingly engulfed most of Gen Z and Gen Alpha over the last year. The apparent demise...

MONTY BENFICA | Amusements | CONTACT The world waits with bated breath as the United States prepares to ban the TikTok app, which currently has 170 million users across Americz. Many hope the ban will bring about a return to old-school virality, when seemingly mundane 20 second clips could go viral and remain cultural touchstones for years - like Charlie Bit My Finger. The ban of...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Confidence has been restored in the River City this week, as it appears that there is finally a concrete plan for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics. After a state election where this issue didn't come up once, and was instead overshadowed by the media's booming prioritisation of a statistically non-existent youth crime crisis, The 2032 Summer Olympics, officially known as...