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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A Irishman living in our town's French Quarter is pleased today after learning of fabled menswear shop Tarocash and the treasure trove of waistcoats that are available for purchase there at a reasonable cost. Opposite Michael Hill Jewellers and adjacent to The Reject Shop, Tarocash was founding tenant of the Betoota Heights Stockland and...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Rugby's Hamish has called an emergency cocktail dinner in Paris this evening after Wallabies coach Eddie Jones sensationally quit after a disastrous World Cup campaign that has seemingly done the impossible - make rugby union even more irrelevant. Known for his penchant and unquenchable thirst for the finer things in life, millionaire Rugby Australia Chairman...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A local boy who was heard laughing at something this afternoon while home sick from school is no longer sick, according to the boy's father. Derek Johnson, the proprietor of a local autospares distributor, had to take the day off work because his 7-year-old, Clark, supposedly woke up feeling sick. The 47-year-old said he hates parents...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The unsinkable Barnaby Joyce has thrown his hat in the ring to be the government's drought envoy this week as the El Nino cycle begins to settle. Citing his previous experience as Canberra's eyes and ears on the ground when it comes to primary production during dry spells, the Member for New England shot a...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Everyone's favourite purveyor of frozen deserts has announced today that they've called in the administrators because everyone has gotten too flash for them. With the rise of culinary television, shows like My Kitchen Rules, MasterChef and the Great Australian Bake Off, the average Australian's taste for artisanal sweets has grown while demand for your traditional...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The nation's peak scientific body today has released some grim news for those that wonder about things more than others. Researchers and academics from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have been hard at work attempting to answer the question of how the common kitchen kettle knows when to turn itself off after...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactThe world has this week urged actor Will Smith to please, PLEASE buy his wife/non-wife Jada Pinkett Smith a moleskin diary for her birthday, after being collectively forced to hear every sordid details from their marriage over the past few years, including Jada’ dalliance with her sons best friend, her obsession with former lover Tupac Shakur, and now the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact One of the smoothbrain city boys that took up the game of golf over the pandemic says being a leftie is makes finding quality used clubs much harder because only a small percentage of players globally do it in the inverted fashion. Recently retrenched LinkedIn account manager Spencer McCullum explained to our reporter that he's...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Singer Kamahl has indicated that he will now support the Yes vote at last weekend's referendum to amend the constitution to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as the original inhabitants of the Australian continent and form a basic advisory panel to consult only on issues that affect decisions that impact upon their way...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Foreign-owned conglomerate Uber has warned the Albanese Government's sweeping industrial relations reforms aimed at giving "gig economy" workers the same rights as other workers could see the cost of their service skyrocket. That would mean many of the nation's fat and lazy would either have to part with more money for their to-the-door Pad Thai...