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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Overnight, a local cricket fan says he drifted off to sleep before seeing Australia capitulate late in the piece against India last night. Thinking a good match was shaping up after the tourists managed to bowl India out for 252, Glenn Powell threw caution to the wind and said, 'fuck it, I'll stay up for...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact When Jimmy Barnes stood in front of that burning canefield and scream his little lungs out, he was screaming them out for people like Bacardi Carter. Once just a simple man that broke shit up and threw it in a skip for a living, the ambitious 24-year-old soon hit the books and now puts bricks...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact There was a time when Michael Steele didn't have a care in the world. But that was a long time ago. Trust with the school run this afternoon by wife Beverly, when the 49-year-old picked his three boys up from St Lockyear's Primary School around 3 pm, he knew trouble wasn't far away. Brayden, 7, was the first to pipe up...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Despite not feeling the need to poison his body every half hour, local bloke Jake Longhurst (27) is putting himself through the same uncomfortable paces that all of his smoker friends do. Jake says he's very glad he has never known what it was like to have smoking inside pubs, but the downside is that nomadic nature of his...

BERNICE TWISP | Social Pages | Contact March was a momentous month for Simon Archerfield. He got promoted, then his wife gave birth to his little future Wallaby a week later. Feeling on top of the world has he strode out of the only private maternity hospital in leafy East Betoota, the 41-year-old was stopped at reception by the registrar and asked...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact An East Betoota Tablet is said to be 'ecstatic' with news coming in from the coast that he'd won the prestigious Australian Father of the Year Award today in Brisbane. The local three-year-old father, was the Queensland nominee for the competition after being nominated by an anonymous member of the wider Diamantina community. Originally hailing from...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A joint investigation between Dubbo's Western Plains Zoo and the CSIRO has concluded that nearly all encounters with the elusive yet extinct Tasmania Tiger are filmed on a Nokia 3200. Many researchers at the nation's peak scientific body had their interest in the phenomenon piqued this week as yet another video claiming to have captured the Thylacine surfaced online...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet Reporter | Contact After a big couple of days at work, local publicist Grace Leigh was left feeling like an afternoon nap would be the best thing in the world today. With droopy eyelids and a light head, the young woman stumbled through her bedroom door and collapsed on the bed. Knowing full well that she often wakes...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A local Kabi Kabi man was disappointed last night, after tuning into catch an episode from the 13th season of Deadliest Catch on Discovery Channel. Having never watched the program before, Ashley Colby (28) says he was in the mood for some good old fashioned reality TV when he tuned in last night, but was shocked by what he saw. "I...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A local grade two student has today experience one of early education system's biggest learning curves. After 18 months of schooling, 6-year-old Benjamin Law has always prided himself on his ability to remember and recite the alphabet with ease - however, today's revelations that he has missed five entire letters have left him rattled. "I never knew what elemenopee looked...