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13 April, 2015. 11:35 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected] A new survey conducted by the Australian Centre for Sleep Hygeine and Health (ACSHH) has revealed some interesting findings surrounding Australians and their dreams. Researchers say they are astounded by the recurrence of a particular Australian television personality appearing in the dreams of a cross-section of Australian respondents. The study, which was aimed at...

11 April, 2015. 13:30 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact ONE NEWTOWN resident knew it was time to go when more local garages were being used to keep cars in than foster the local music scene. "I agree wholeheartedly in gentrification, I just don't understand why they had to come to my neighbourhood," said Banjo Clementé. In 2012, the annual combined household...

“He’s usually a good puller but he couldn’t get it up that time.” - Richie Benaud   10 April, 2015. 11:50 IMRAN GASHKORI | Sports Journalist | Contact A wave of sadness and reflection sweeps across the nation as Australia farewells it’s favourite son, father, coach and grandfather. While it seems most high-profile Australian sports identities are remembered as God-like, Richie actually was. The former Australian test captain...

10 April, 2015. 10:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected] A MEMBER OF AUSTRALIAN ROCK BAND, I Killed The Prom Queen, has this week appeared in a new anti-wool campaign solicited and funded by animal rights group, PETA. The poster that Adelaide-based guitarist Jona Weinhofen appeared in has suggested that farmers who shear lambs are committing the highest form of animal cruelty, which results in...

9 April, 2015. 15:35 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected] After being held for six days without charge a Newtown man has been released in what amounted to a case of mistaken identity. The 25 year old Newtown barista, who cannot be named by order of the court, received a public apology from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) yesterday over being mistaken for...

Disclaimer: This is NOT satire A GRASSROOTS AUSTRALIAN NEWS and media production company have today unveiled a controversial crowd-funding campaign to raise money for the production of an upcoming Outback web series. The "rewards" they have offered to supporters are sure to spark interest. Particularly with the authorities. Have a look at the Kickstarter campaign below to see some of the shady donation prizes, which...

31 March, 2016. 17:35 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact After having returned from their first ever Bluesfest two days ago, Bruce and Barb Houston are still puzzled as to what on earth happened on the last night of the festival. The married couple from Toowoomba, Queensland endured a peculiar "dizzy-spell" when they decided to share their first cigarette since they both quit smoking in 1992. "I...

6 April, 2015. 16:04 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact FORMER PM JULIA Gillard has admitted this afternoon to enjoying the new musical direction Tame Impala has taken with their new album Currents. Speaking today on ABC Radio Perth with the band's creative force Kevin Parker, Ms Gillard said the new sound shows the maturity of the Western Australian group as...

3 April, 2015. 13:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Eight year-old local boy, Jake Williment says the concept of Easter is very bizarre for people his age. "They make us get up so early and go to church. Why do we have to go to dumb Church?" "Church is dumb and boring. My grandparents like it but that's only because they get...

3 April, 2015. 13:28 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A GOOD FRIDAY barbecue has turned sour for one Mudgee male after police discovered him barbecuing a platypus in Lawson Park, on the banks of the Cudgegong River. Local latchkey youth David "Wingnut" Davidson, was fishing in the famous river when he hooked the endangered monotreme and reeled it in. Rather than throw...