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4 March, 2016. 15:35 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact SLATED AS BEING ONE OF THE most electric sporting events of the year, the five remaining Republican presidential candidates will meet again at WrestleMania 32 on April 3. Prior to the hotly anticipated cage match between Shaun McMahon and The Undertaker, the latter will adjudicate the scheduled republican debate from inside the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT After boldly revealing on social media that he was travelling via public transport to the Central Coast on New South Wales, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced that he will be avoiding rail commutes from now on. "I honestly didn't think people like that existed," said Malcolm Turnbull while rubbing his hands with anti-septic dry-wash...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local Baby Boomer, John Gorman, has been using social media for approximately 18 months. In that time, 90% of his social media activity has been solely based around referring to young people, immigrants, refugees, poor people and Aboriginal people as 'bludgers'. Today, he's even gone as far as calling the devastated Great Barrier Reef as bludger,...

2 March, 2016. 16:45 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Last week, the Australian parliament passed new national laws today paving the way for the use of medicinal cannabis by people with painful and chronic illness. Amendments to the Narcotic Drugs Act permit both legally-grown cannabis for the manufacture of medicinal cannabis products in Australia. The changes, proposed earlier this month by the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A Donald Trump rally in Virginia took an interesting turn yesterday, after the Republican President took several bites out of a raw onion on stage, to the delight of his supporters. While visiting southwestern Radford, Virginia, Trump praised rural voters by sampling local produce on stage. "This is the greatest onion I have ever eaten!" shouted Trump. "No Mexican could...

1 March, 2016. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact SWEEPING NEW MEASURES from the NSW government were passed this morning that could see Australians who identify as any other religion than Christianity be locked out of Sydney's Royal Easter Show. In addition to these measures, having a Hillsong membership will also get families access to the fanfare for free. What these new...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT While attempting to reverse his boat trailer closer to the water during a family skiing trip, local dad Brett Cawley (44) has been left in a state of confusion by the amount of "woo" sounds he was met with by bystanders. At the popular north-coast camping and cabin holiday destination, Crakatinny Lagoon, it appears that every male over 17 is equally...

29 January, 2016 10:30 GRAHAM HENDERSON | Lifestyle | CONTACT A 42-year-old Queensland man has been suddenly stricken with a strong case of glaucoma whilst reading amendments to the Therapeutic Goods Act. “It came on so suddenly” said Richard Hua. “My eyes were a bit dry from reading the news, so I did some online research and diagnosed myself as having chronic glaucoma.” “A quick visit to Wikipedia...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT   Despite a disastrous track record of destroying the environment, declaring unnecessary wars and warehousing poor people inside prisons - the world is still being run by people born during the post-World War II baby boom (1946-1964) - it has been confirmed. This particular generation, also known as 'The Baby Boomers' have been heavily criticised over the last thirty years for their...

26 January, 2016 13:00 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT PRIME MINISTER MALCOLM TURNBULL has today announced that the government will build a fleet of 12 new submarines over the next 30 years as part of an overall increase in defence spending to combat the rise of religious extremism in the Middle East. Early estimates have costed the submarines at $50 billion to design and build, but the...