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17 June, 2015. 15:32 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A SOUTHEAST ASIAN airline has come under fire for accidentally broadcasting an episode of Air Crash Investigations during a scheduled flight to Europe. The carrier, which cannot be named for legal reasons, has been subject to multiple hull losses and near misses in the past 24 months. This is the latest controversy that...

17 June, 2015. 12:45 IMRAN GASHKORI | Sports | [email protected] "I never meant to change the rules. Miles wasn't looking so I hit him. It's as simple as that"   Origin football died on the the 39th minute of game one, 2013. The gritty, aggressive and physical rivalry disappeared forever. Lost over nothing more than a devastatingly cheap one-two combination from NSW captain, Paul Gallen. "I just done...

16 June, 2015. 10:00 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact WASHINGTON D.C — Tom Freeman, the 27-year-old GOP Staffer closely aligned with Jeb Bush, has been falsely portraying himself as a white man, according to his mother. In a week of similar revelations surrounding Spokane NAACP Chapter President Rachel Dolezal - Mary Freeman said Monday that she and her son have been estranged for years. She says the...

  CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact John Grant, publican at The Lord Kidman Hotel in Betoota, says he can't believe the rise in petty-assaults he has seen in his small-town pub. He says most of it has to do with intense arguments over American television series. "It all comes down to those bloody televisions mate," says Mr Grant as he scours clean...

15 June, 2015.  17:06 STAFF WRITERS | Sydney Bureau Office | Contact A CREATIVE PADDINGTON man has found a genius way to attended matches at Sydney's most prestigious sporting complex without paying a cent - for over two decades. He's not a professional athlete, nor is he affiliated with any sporting club. None of his friends are members, either. If you ask him, he'll tell you he's...

15 June, 2015. 11:39 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact The Federal Opposition has requested an urgent independent investigation into claims that Australian authorities tried to stop Channel Ten panel-host, Waleed Aly, from airing a segment that suggests that "bribes have been paid" to people smugglers to return a boat to Indonesia. It is believed that Waleed Aly was offered a "generous...

12 June, 2015. 13:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Entrepreneurial transport/export businessman, Andrew* says he could have never imagined the fruits that would come from a career in people smuggling. "It surprised me, I thought there was only one way to make money in this industry..." "The life-savings of people who are religiously persecuted is a pretty safe bet," "Turns out you can get...

12 June, 2015. 11:00 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Prime Minister Tony Abbott has described wind farms as "visually awful", saying he wishes the Howard government, of which he was a member, had never implemented the Renewable Energy Target (RET) policy. "When I've been up close to these things, not only are they visually awful, but they make a lot of...

11 June, 2015. 09:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Despite his outright support for marriage equality, The Australian Christian Lobby has this week thanked Opposition Leader Bill Shorten for his "helpful" and "important" role in stopping same-sex marriage, after Labor committed to blocking the Turnbull government's proposed plebiscite. However, many believe this defiant hamster wheel of overly politicised relationships is only just gaining momentum....

1 March, 2016. 16:45 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Nurses, teachers and other key workers have taken umbrage with Mike Baird's claim that their is no such thing as a Baby Boomer housing bubble, and that anyone who can't afford to buy a home is too busy spending their money alcoholic beverages in late night venues. The comments have resulted in a...