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23 May, 2016. 16:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THINKING THAT SOMETHING MAGIC might happen during this year's State of Origin competition, one NSW Blues fan took a look at the side announced today, before putting his ticket on Gumtree. Choosing to move on with his life, career roofer Glenn Backladdy said he'd rather not let himself be absorbed in the hoopla...

23 May, 2016. 10:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact AFTER A LACKLUSTRE DEBUT for the world-champion Fiji Rugby Sevens team in London last week, superstar athlete Jarryd Hayne is considering what his future holds - saying it hinges on whatever his next lifelong dream is. Admitting to a growing media pack outside Twickenham Stadium yesterday, the 27-year-old Dally M winner said he's...

INGRID DOULTON OAM | Let’s Talk Sense | CONTACT In the late sixties, a young women working in media was nothing more than a pin cushion for the hands of seedy old executives, but I knew what I had to do if I was going to get where I needed to go. There I was. A single 23-year-old working in a city that I barely...

20 May, 2016. 09:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact INSPIRED BY THE DECADENCE and grand opulence of general admission areas of racecourses around Australia, affordable fashion label Tarocash has debuted a selection of high-quality garments to screaming crowds in Sydney this morning. They're designed to be a low-cost alternative to what else is on offer, with some suggestion that the trendy threads...

19 May, 2016 17:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has been condemned for making 'deeply offensive' comments about the migrant intake policies in Australia during the 1950's. Mr Dutton made these remarks during an interview with Sky News presenter Paul Murray, stating that the Snowy Mountains Scheme was an exercise of embarrassment for the Australian people, and that those migrants who...

18 May, 2016 17:45 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT PRIME MINISTER MALCOLM TURNBULL has been forced to ask Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to 'take it easy' for the remaining forty-five days of the pre-election campaign. This news apparently comes after the Prime Minister took a distressing phone call this morning from the former-Brisbane Police Officer, who was still rattled by an interview he had...

18 May, 2016 14:45 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT SBS documentary Struggle Street has been refused permits to film a second season in Inala, with Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk warning that if he hears one whisper about the 'wog broadcaster' floating around South-West Brisbane, he'll have to 'dust someone off'. "I don't know how you mob were allowed to do what you did in Mount...

17 May, 2016. 12:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact AFTER BEING SUCKERED INTO watching ABC's Q&A in his own home by his left-leaning family, 69-year-old Micheal Houston said he couldn't help saying "Fuck me, dead," over and over again. Having spent his entire working life as a small business owner, the semi-retired farmer says that he used to have a small...

11 May, 2016 15:45 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Often described as "Australia's Drive-By" - the ram-raid is a variation of burglary in which a vehicle is driven through the windows or doors of a closed shop, usually a department store or jewellers shop, to allow the perpetrators to loot it. The ram-raid is a universal method of robbery, however, over the last twenty years it...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Malcolm Turnbull's entire security detail has been stood down today, after the Australian Federal Police learnt that the Prime Minister had been left alone for close to half an hour with Channel Nine commentator and Penrith Panthers General Manager, Phil 'Gus' Gould. It is believed, while on the campaign trail in Sydney's Western Suburbs today, Prime Minister Turnbull...