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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT After the critical and box office success of Straight Out of Compton, there’s been big buzz surrounding the upcoming biopic of Tupac Shakur biopic Thug Life, produced by Quentin Tarantino (Hateful 8) Spike Lee (Malcolm X) and Michael Caton (The Castle), is being directed by Hip Hop video veteran, Joaquin Phoenix and has been making news as it glides through the film...

25 January, 2016 10:05 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Earlier this year, Treasurer Scott Morrison has approved the sale of Australia’s largest dairy farming business, the Van Diemen’s Land Company (VDL), to the Chinese-owned Moon Lake Investments. VDL, which dates from 1825, owns and operates 25 dairy farms in Tasmania, milking some 18,000 cows. The $280 million dollar sale has left both economists, politicians and farmers...

24 January, 2016 17:55 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT After a hard day at work, Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi is relieved to be at home with his wife Sinead Bernardi, the Bible, and his two young children who were conceived through a strict missionary program several months after his marriage. A big day in Parliament, and a media blitz right across the country, saw Senator Bernardi...

23 February, 2016. 16:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IN 2001, SHANE WARNE was clubbed over the rope for six runs by a little-known Zimbabwean batsman by the name of Stuart Carlisle, during a friendly one day international between our two nations. It would've been like any other match, but Warne immortalised Carlisle the only way he could. Watching the ball sail...

23 January, 2016 13:35 CHIP DOUGLAS | Entertainment | CONTACT The heart-warming tale of overcoming adversity was the central message last nights Australian Story - focusing on Wallabies superstar David Pocock and his family fleeing Zimbabwe in 2002 to seek the human right of asylum and safety in the Australian river city of Brisbane, QLD.  With the seemingly innocuous episode highlighting the Wallabies flanker's background, it...

23 January, 2016 10:35 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Banjo Paterson once wrote about the Barcoo shire in Western Queensland. The opening line of of his 1890 poem "A Bush Christening" gives profile to the district: "On the outer Barcoo where the churches are few, And men of religion are scanty" In the century and a half since this poem was written, nothing has changed. Other than...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull returned from his trip "Up North" over the weekend, with very little to talk about. "Richard Di Natale was right when he said God has forgotten about that awful, awful place - 1/3" the Prime Minister tweeted earlier today. "I mean, 2016 essentially ends at Gladstone, any further north than that and it's like I'm...

22 January, 2016 15:35 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The former editor-at-large of CollegeHumour Australia, New Yorker George Brohman (22), has been hired by The Sydney Morning Herald as the lead reporter covering the current US Election - it was confirmed today. His writing debuted on page 16 today with a story titled "Donald Trump Is Seriously Killing it RN" - where the media commentator known as "Bro"...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT After an early knock-off from work, Townsville man Clyde Barber has been forced to bag and take-away his usual five long-necks of XXXX Bitter from the local pub - Instead of drinking them there. Mr Barber says he did not feel welcome in the Kennedy Hotel's public bar this afternoon, after being met with a hostile reception when a...

19 February, 2016. 11:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact FIRST IT WAS THE Titanic II. Then it was Jurassic Park II. If you thought half billionaire Clive Palmer was done enriching the globe with his bold, brave and heroic feats of engineering and nostalgia, then you're wrong. A Broadway adaption of the 1995 runaway summer movie success, Billy Madison, is apparently in the...