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21 November, 2015 11:45 HARRY MANTER | Contributor | CONTACT With Woolworths' ANZAC day advertising bungle still fresh in our memories, the supermarket chain has again courted controversy with the timing of its new social media campaign. The campaign dubbed ‘Fresh Food Filters’ allows Facebook users to superimpose a translucent green tint and the Woolworths logo over their profile picture as a way to raise awareness...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT With the mercury rising to upwards of forty degrees celsius in some Australian capital cities today, it has been confirmed that the entire nation's construction industry are fucking off it. "Fuck this shit," say Jack Kennedy, a 27-year-old maritime carpenter who was approached for comment by our reporters. "This is fucked," "You fucken journos spend most of your time in the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT According to the official Forbes list, Australian active-wear entrepreneur Casey Hoskins is reportedly worth over six million dollars - and she owes it all to an amazing idea she had while travelling around London late last year. "Everywhere I looked I saw people walking around the city with yoga mats. In the streets, on the tube, at cafe's," "I thought 'surely...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The ABCs new miniseries Yagan is a masterful dive into a dramatic biopic by Australia's beloved comic, Chris Lilley. Lilley, of Summer Heights High and Jonah from Tonga fame, lends his ingenious knack for mimicry and improvisation to his performance as the famed Indigenous freedom fighter. Lilley and screenwriter Mikey Robbins (Good News Week) have brought their cutting...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected] After more than forty-five minutes spent watching both professional and amatuer adult films through an array of online streaming services, local man Dave Amos says he is now experiencing "something that feels a lot like guilt". "I mean it's not like I've hurt anyone... What I'm feeling is more of a disappointment. A disappointment in myself," Mr Amos, a 28-year-old...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact A new study released by CSIRO has revealed that white privilege more than makes up for white guilt. Dr. Peter Humphries was behind the study: “This is very interesting,” he explained over the phone, “It means that pang white people feel when they walk past a homeless aboriginal woman after drinking $20 cocktails at a work drinks is...

November 1, 2015. 5:30 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact DESPITE THE NEW ZEALAND being the better team on the day, both retiring All Black captain Richie McCaw and match referee Nigel Owens have both been offered a knighthood in the wake of the Rugby World Cup grand final. In addition to this great honour, each member of the triumphant All Blacks...

29 October, 2015. 13:27 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The ABC is reporting that LNP backbencher Tony Abbott has been denied re-entry into Australia. The Member for Warringah had his Visa revoked by customs at Heathrow Airport today while attempting to return to Australia after speaking at the Margaret Thatcher Lecture in London. Mr. Abbott’s speech implored Europeans to not let their society crumble...

29 October, 2015. 16:05 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Betoota's favourite father and son fugitives Gino and Mark Stocco have been caught by NSW Police near Dunedoo in central western NSW. It is believed they were intercepted while travelling back to their hometown of Betoota, in Western Queensland, where their extended family was waiting. The pair, two of Australia's most wanted men, were surrounded on a property...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Jake Garbs is from Sydney's Northern Beaches and couldn't give a shit about anything. A place made famous by the controversial rugby league franchise known as The Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, as well as the Channel Seven TV drama Home & Away, which is unofficially set in one of the sleepy seaside localities. But unlike those successful exports, Jake Garbs has absolutely no...