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11 July, 2016. 11:05 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact When it comes to travelling around an augmented reality capturing token prizes, Toowoomba man Antony Grant (37) says Pokémon GO has nothing on the skillset required to reach level 220 with nothing more than four buttons and a 84 × 48 pixel pure monochrome display. The 32-year-old telemarketer from Toowoomba, QLD says he is often...

9 July, 2016. 11:05 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact New South Wales premier Mike Baird has announced plans to ban all ball pits in the state by 1 July, 2017. The decision follows an inquiry into the industry following revelations of some kids peeing in ball pits, and other one-off circumstances that suggest that toey high schoolers sometimes have sex in them. Baird has called for...

6 July, 2016. 16:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact CONTROVERSIAL SENATOR-ELECT Derryn Hinch has revealed this afternoon that he's secured a backup liver just in case he wins a full 6-year term in the upper house. Speaking today at the Sydney's Powerhouse Museum, where his original liver has been on display since 2013, the 72-year-old Kiwi-native announced that he's found a compatible...

6 July, 2016. 16:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact AS AUSTRALIA'S FAVOURITE SON in the upper house prepares to leave Canberra after failing to be reelected, Ricky Muir has revealed plans to "hang the arse out" around a Canberra roundabout one last time. The 35-year-old is well known around the bush capital for being a bit of a mad dog behind...

6 July, 2016. 10:35 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Local Betoota Blackfella, Ian Fischer (28) says he still hasn't forgotten the things Pauline Hanson said him in the late nineties. "Yeah she's not too popular with our mob," he says while pouring Holbrooks BBQ sauce and Saxa salt over a bully beef stir fry in his corrugated iron roofed back block. "She made life pretty...

6 July, 2016. 13:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IN A SIMPLE CASE OF old hippies and new-to-the-block yuppies not wanting major progress to take place in their neighbourhood, the Sydneysiders protesting the controversial WestConnex project have agreed to keep getting piss on their chinos until the bitter end. Putting his art degree to the best use it's ever had, Newtown...

5 July, 2016. 9:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contacts THE MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION and Border Protection almost lost his north-west Brisbane seat over the weekend, which he's since blamed on a number of things that aren't his human rights track record. Peter Dutton has reportedly told journalists that union thugs, bikies and the Labor Party were all working to undermine his...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact The extended family of Paul Abernathy (77) say that they were stunned to hear their casually racist grandfather condemn the popular Queensland senator Pauline Hanson this morning. "Jeez you know things are pretty messy when there is someone 'too racist' for our Pop" says grandson Michael (27). "He's usually the first to crack uncomfortable racist jokes and abuse offshore telemarketers... But...

2 July, 2016. 13:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IT'S THE SAME VICIOUS CYCLE every three years, except this time, he gets the opportunity to vote below the line. Because real change comes from voting below the line on the senate ballot paper. That's the opinion of one local inner eastern Betoota man, who got up early to beat the crowds at...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Local man, Thomas Trilby (28) has gotten his hands on some 2005 quality ecstasy tablets, it has been confirmed. After double checking with his dealer, Mr Trilby was informed that the $25 per unit deal was not an exaggeration, and that it was just like the old days. "I couldn't believe it. This guy must know some bikies...