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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact He was already annoyed at having to work on a Saturday, but things were about to get a whole lot worse for one North Betoota courier. As he hugs his Caroma Sovereign Trident toilet this afternoon, 39-year-old Bert Liston can feel the hand of Satan slithering through his insides - looking for a way out. Pressed for time, the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Even though it's Monday, the Brightley Lawyers Christmas Party is as boozy as an awkward staff event can be. Booking out a local rooftop bar with river views, they have an endless bar tab and permission to really let their hair down. Local para-legal, Richie (27), doesn't know if any of his work-obsessed colleagues are into this kind of thing,...

  ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact ROCKING UP TO A pub he's never been to before, Dale Edridge joined four other mates as they ventured into the city for a hard-earned drink-a-thon at one of Brisbane's most recognisable destination hotels. Hopping on the train at Trinder Park station in Brisbane's cosmopolitan Gold Coast corridor, the 23-year-old and his four companions shotgunned their...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A recent report from both the CSIRO and Australian Bureau Of Statistics has found that the top of the Zooper Dooper is probably just going to be left in the sink until either your mum scoops it out or it gets washed down the drain. The study found that roughly 30% of all plastic found polluting the ocean...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Lord Kidman Hotel, located in the inner-Betoota suburb of Roma Hills, has been fined for not taking into account the fact that the neighbouring residents expect to be able to go to sleep whenever they want. Despite standing in the same spot for 150 years and being owned and run by the same family for six decades, the...

ROY MARTYN | Editor | CONTACT Rob Denton, a 63-year-old married man, has today claimed that his wife of 40 years, Camilla, did the first mannequin challenge over 20 years ago, and “doesn’t think it’s anything to write home about.” “I’ve seen this ‘Mannequin challenge’ thing all over Facebook,” began Denton, “And it took me straight back to the 1990s - not long after...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THOUGH THE BABY-FACED PUBLIC servant is well into his twenties, Constable Damien Longshanks from the Broadbeach LAC has chosen his trendiest threads to pound the pavement tonight as a plain-clothed policeman. Tasked with keeping Queenslanders safe from the scourge of public drunkenness and MDMA, the 29-year-old spent some time this afternoon putting together his look in...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact His parents finally felt safe to bring a child into this world when they saw the sea of Berliners taking to the wall with sledgehammers and crowbars. However, when communism was dying its slow death, it was also a time when the Australian cricket team was also dying a quicker, less humane death. After years, perhaps...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT WEST END, Brisbane (QLD) - Despite arriving in Australia as a post-war migrant in the mid-1960s, a local Greek-Australian grandfather says that he thinks Donald Trump will be a great President for America. Not only that, he says that Trump's tough stance on terrorists, immigrants, hippies and the political class is something both Australia and Greece could learn from. Yanni...

10 November, 2016. 11:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact AN INCH OF SNOW blanketed Betoota for the first time in recorded history today. A severe weather alert has been issued by the Diamantina Shire Council to drivers as the first significant snow of winter fell across a large swathe of the Simpson Desert, Channel Country and much of the interior. High-level routes...