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9 June, 2015. 16:37 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A "CERTIFIED ORGANIC" cropping property near the NSW town of Trangie has come under investigation today after workers were allegedly caught spraying a controlled chemical on crops. Farmhands working on 'Eucaronage' via Gin Gin stand accused of using dihydrogen monoxide to promote plant growth, which is banned by organic certifying bodies around...

8 June, 2015. 12:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact In a bizarre case of small-town fraud, a Bathurst resident has apparently swindled thousands of dollars from local motorists in a scam that could only be compared to something from a Roald Dahl novel. Police have been on the hunt for a man who has reportedly been throwing a taxidermic dog under...

5 June, 2015. 16:01 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact BOND UNIVERSITY COUNCILLORS voted unanimously to erect an 68-metre-tall bronzed statue of controversial businessman Alan Bond, on this afternoon. The plans have been met with harsh criticism by both locals and the Queensland state government, with legal proceedings due to start early next month. The University was established in 1987 and its development funded...

4 June, 2015. 09:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact An independent survey conducted by The Lonely Planet in partnership with the American global information and measurement company, Nielsen, has set about disposing myths regarding the liveability of Australia's controversial sovereign processing centre, Manus Island. The results were resounding amongst guards, locals and inmates alike - with 90% agreeing on the fact...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT It has today been announced that one of the ABC's most experienced radio and television current affairs journalists, Tony Jones, will be immortalised in a rushed and poorly articulated official biography. Over the years, the award-winning journalist reported for Four Corners and Foreign Correspondent, and is the current host of Q&A and Lateline on Wednesday...

2 June, 2015. 11:15 IMRAN GASHKORI | Sports | [email protected] It has been reported that Collingwood President, Eddie McGuire has landed himself in hospital overnight while attempting to watch tribal war dances on YouTube. Four days into the most controversial news story in the history of Australian football, it is believed the overweight Catholic was surfing All Blacks Haka videos online, in an attempt to...

  CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Police raids of FIFA offices in Zurich and Miami last year resulted in some rather flattering revelations for the illegal migrant underclass of Qatar. That is, if it weren't for them - the barren desert Gulf state would not have been chosen to host the 2022 FIFA Soccer World Cup. "It is very flattering" says a dehydrated Nepalese worker...

28 May, 2015. 14:58 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact BOUYED BY HIS recent on-air stoush with Nationals deputy Barnaby Joyce, radio shock jock Kyle Sandilands is rumoured to be planning to run as an independent at the next federal election. The 43-year-old has reportedly set his sights on claiming his home seat, the Division of Bonner, in Brisbane's south east. The KISS FM star's hometown...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact AN ELDERLY COUPLE discovered the hard way last year that they were the only people in a small QLD town who were supporting the NSW Blues. Bethany and Ernest Page, both 89, retired to the sleepy outback Queensland town of Longreach in early 2014 after leaving behind the hustle and bustle of Roma. Having both grown up in...

25 May, 2015. 12:00 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected] Prime Minister Tony Abbott has dismissed the idea of a referendum on same-sex marriage in Australia, after Ireland voted in favour of amending the country's constitution on the issue.  Mr Abbott says that the shirt-lifting community were lucky enough to have the opportunity to vote during Eurovision - and that letting them vote...