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MONTY BENFICA | Amusements | CONTACT A local inner-city wine mum has today informed her daughter that she simply doesn't have time to hear about how she went in her HSC, saying the election on the other side of the world is far more important. Marigold Harper (54) has been closely following the Harris campaign since she replaced Biden in the Democratic presidential race. Since...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. This comes as the festival of single-use plastic known as Halloween finally concludes. Right around the Western World, and Japan, shopping centres are being gently serenaded with the seasonal jingles that make people buy more things. While November marks the earliest stages of the Christmas season, shoppers will be quick to note that...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact In a major policy announcement that is struggling to get any airtime in an Australian news cycle focused on treating minor indiscretions like career-ruining political scandals, millions of Aussie students will have their university and TAFE debts slashed. The Albanese government will reduce HECS and TAFE debts by 20 per cent, should it win the looming federal election in...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact The Australian Bureau of Meteorology's leading forecasters have this week issued a stern warning to Betoota and surrounds. While making an effort to issue their warning in fluent Western Queensland English, the BOM has warned he's about to get fucken warm. The Channel Country, Maranoa and Warrego regions are expected to feel some fucken bite round Tuesday or Wednesday, according...

INGRID DOULTON | Lady Writer | Contact Local corporate wanker, Jae (30) is on fire this afternoon. His drinking buddies are pissing themselves - because Jase has gotten to that sweet spot where he's had just enough to drink to let loose a little. It takes quite a lot of booze for him to do that nowadays. Lucky he's got a company card, and is...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT After two years of expensive legal proceedings, a Federal Court has found the Far-Right Australian Senator Pauline Hanson has breached the Racial Discrimination Act. Aside from having a drink thrown over his in an Ipswich pub in the late 1990s, this marks the first time that Pauline Hanson has every really been held accountable for the things she says. This...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's financial emancipation continues to make headlines this week, after it was also revealed that on top of owning a nice house, he also flies at the front of the plane. While literally ever Prime Minister before him have lived in much bigger and much more expensive houses, it is different for Albanese. Because he was...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT As of Saturday night, David Frank Crisafulli is the 41st Premier of Queensland. He joins Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Northern Territory Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro in cementing Italian-Australian leadership across three governments. As the son of North Queensland farmers, Crisafulli descends from the early Southern European migrants who first arrived in Queensland to work as indentured servants in...

MONTY BENFICA | Amusements | CONTACT Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has finally been exposed for what he is. A political elite. This comes after his secret 'other life' as a world leader who gets to live in a nice house and fly in business class was exposed by Australia's meticulous and unflinching media. Many journalists and political opponents have described it as 'his Hawaii moment. And they...

INGRID DOULTON | Lady Writer | CONTACT After a string of exhausting relationships, Betoota Grove woman Kelsie Nova (32) has finally accepted that she's got to stop trying to fix men. Her friends have been saying it for years. She's a natural caretaker, and simply cannot resist the ones with baggage. While it can be quite fun in the early stages of dating a 'renovator's...