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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Tens of thousands of Western Sydney residents have today arrived at the New South Wales Central Coast, in the first wave of Christmas pilgrims. The epicentre of this mass, temporary exodus is none other than the home of 'water-based-westies' known as The Entrance. Local lifesaver, Joel Coastie, says from here on out it is hell for fucking leather. "We can expect an...

6 December, 2016. 19:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A WINDORAH MAN ON a Buck's Weekend in Sydney was arrested by police overnight after he tried to order five bourbon and cokes in one order. Plain-clothed detectives from the Kings Cross LAC detained the man when bar staff alerted the authorities that a 'happy-go-lucky-desert-man' was about to do some serious drinking, which has...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact DESPITE BEING OLD ENOUGH to make his own decisions regarding bedtime, 27-year-old grader driver David Pott-Plant chooses to reject this bourgeois social construct and let a man in a possum costume tell him when to go to sleep. The Parkes Shire Council employee, who is physically unable to breathe through his nose due to a tragic...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A spokesman from one of the country's largest hospitality groups has today confirmed that the term 'VIP lounge' is just an Australian term for 'a dark air conditioned room with over twenty pokie machines that you are sometimes allowed to smoke in'. A recent study conducted by the Licensing Inquiries and Testing For Australian Management (LitFam) ombudsman shows that tourists...

1 December, 2016. 9:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact WHETHER IT BE HIS quiet rugby league sensibilities, or his happy-go-lucky-big-small-town attitude, Brisbane man Brett Teaman says he just can't wrap his head around nasal and other facial piercings. Arriving in Melbourne, the home of entertainer Molly 'The Hat' Meldrum, on business this morning, the 29-year-old Hutchinson Builders project manager said that nearly every...

30 November, 2016. 11:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THE MAKERS OF THE timeless board game, Monopoly, have attracted 'scathing' and 'unbridled' criticisms for their latest release targeted at millennials. According to the modified rules, players under the age of 30 aren't allowed to purchase and own property - unless they're prepared to pay a high premium. The one item on the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Indonesian island of Bali has long been a favourite destination for sun-loving Australian families, particularly if the key bread-winner works FIFO in the mines. The resorts make it easy for you no matter what age your kids are, with babysitters on call for littlies, kids clubs for pre-teens and plenty of watersports for teens, it's the perfect...

20 November, 2016. 11:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact WHILE THERE MAY NOT be a quick fix for Sydney's fledgeling nightlife industry, the 'night mayor' of Amsterdam recommends the ball can get roll by removing Jesus from politics and replacing Him with a cold schooner of rum and coke. Mirik Milan has been the Dutch capital's night mayor since 2012. In...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Shepparton resident, Wyatt Mann, is terrified that Australia Day is going to be taken from him after one city took the radical step of cancelling its January 26 celebrations. The port city of Fremantle in WA created the controversy when it cancelled its annual fireworks because the day of celebration was insensitive towards indigenous people. The city has...

29 November, 2016. 12:23 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact "THE FIRST TIME THAT I heard Lee Harding, I was in the car with my muse and we were listening to, I think, Triple M 105.1 and on came that jangly guitar riff that sounded like somebody kicked open the door to your mind, from 'Wasabi.'" said Murphy. "And my muse, who...