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7 May, 2015. 17:30 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact NEW SOUTH WALES hinge-voter MP Fred Nile is proposing new laws that would raise the legal drinking age, ban Islamic dress and force women who are thinking about terminating a problem pregnancy witness what they're about to remove on an ultrasound. The Christian Democratic Party (CDP) leader is planning to put the legislation before the NSW Upper...

6 May, 2015. 10:40 CLANCY OVERELL| Editor | Contact Treasurer Joe Hockey and Prime Minister Tony Abbott, two proud old boys of the Sydney University Football Club, sat together for a live photo-op in Canberra yesterday.  They had one thing to discuss with each other, in front of a scrum of cameramen, The Budget 2015. Things were tense as the PM critiqued Joe Hockey's...

5 May, 2015. 17:06 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact REPORTERS FROM CHANNEL 9 have allegedly been forced to wear protective vests and helmets when reporting on stories from parts of Western Sydney. After witnessing the appalling conditions in Mt Druitt, producers from Australia's most watched news service have said "enough is enough". While journalists covering conflicts for the network have always been encouraged...

4 May, 2015. 14:20 CLANCY OVERELL| Editor | Contact   The princess was born at 8.34am, weighing 8lbs 3oz - just 3oz less than Prince George when he arrived in July 2013. She is the first princess to be born into the British monarchy in 25 years. The last was Prince Andrew's daughter Princess Eugenie in 1990. Covered in a shawl and with a bonnet...

4 May, 2015. 11:50 IMRAN GASHKORI | World Sport | Contact AFTER FIVE YEARS OF WAITING - it finally happened. An affluent, convicted champion woman-basher fought a street kid from the Phillipines for 45 minutes in Las Vegas - Generating the biggest audience and the biggest paycheque in the history of professional sport. The judges at ringside scored it 118-110, 116-112 and 116-112 for the man known as...

30 April, 2015. 11:50 IMRAN GASHKORI | World Sport | Contact In a week of power plays from both ends, the much-anticipated "Fight Of The Century" between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. gets more and more interesting by the minute. A bizarre relationship has been unveiled in the final days before the May 2nd bout: The friendship between Manny Pacquiao and comedy icon, Bill Murray. Aside from celebrity...

  CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected] A NEW SOUTH WALES-BASED sales manager remains in a Brisbane hospital today, recovering from injuries sustained while "being a smart-arse" in a Caxton Street hotel on Sunday afternoon. Harrison Grogan, 28, was invited to Brisbane as a guest speaker for a media sales seminar this week - before opting to check out one of the city's most...

27 April, 2015. 16:41 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THOUSANDS OF FINAL-YEAR STUDENTS around Australia have thrown their support behind Christopher Pyne's higher education reforms, saying that the proposed changes will make their degrees more valuable. There were chaotic scenes this morning as the education minister landed in Sydney to speak in front of hundreds of his adoring fans - some of...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected] Vaccination skeptic and children rights activist, Magnolia Smithers became a household earlier this year, after comments she made surrounding her opposition to the concept of surf lifesaving at Australian beaches were published by the Daily Telegraph.   Well, Magnolia is back in the headlines again. This time it is to announce that her controversial political group is making a move on Canberra,...

24 April, 2015. 11:35 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected] 100 YEARS AGO, thousands of young Australian soldiers were approaching the shores of Gallipoli, nervously awaiting what would turn out to be one of the least successful commonwealth campaigns in military history. New Zealand was there with us - facing off against another generation of equally timid, young turkish men. The Australian and New...