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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A local man has this week had to come to terms with the fact that women, for the most part, probably aren't interesting in his motorbike or moto-racing accessories, when it comes to looking for men on dating apps. With his mates trying to steer him towards just using a photo of him having a coffee with friends, or...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT Part of entering adulthood is realising you might not necessarily be who you think you are. This day came early for 19 year old Lucy Marchetti, who today realised that out of her group of friends, she is definitely ‘The Miranda.’ “This is just typical! Just because I care about my career and tell it how it is...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Tasmanian police will investigate Tony Abbott's claim that he was headbutted by a Tasmanian in Hobart on Thursday after the former Oxford university boxer, turned former prime minister lodged a formal complaint. However, Mr Abbott only made his complaint to police when they phoned him after learning of the incident via media interviews when he's slow-paced media brain realised he might be...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Sending off your same-sex marriage survey response without instagraming yourself filling it in, or placing the envelope into the post box may render the vote ineligible, the Australian Bureau of Statistics has confirmed. As Australia takes part in a voluntary postal survey on the issue of same-sex marriage. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) who are hosting the survey...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT After a big hit-out over the weekend, local Betoota event planner, Casey Lee (24) has finally stopped putting of the inevitable, and checked her bank account. "The only thing worse than checking the actual amount in my bank account is pretending nothing is wrong and having my card decline at woolies" she said. "Not looking at it might get...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Uh OH! Matty has dumped Australia’s favourite #BACHELORAU contestant Tara, only to be met with a flood of angry tweets from people who are actually emotionally invested in which Gold Coast-based Instagram model this robot decides to spend the next 6 months with, This means there's two left. Elise and Laura. Who's it gonna be? huh? Laura Byrne has been...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A recent report by the Australian Institute For Tourism Photography has found that the obviously unavoidable occurrence of walking in between a photographer and their subject is 100% okay, as long as you acknowledge what you are doing by half-heartedly ducking. Accidentally walking into photos has been an issue plaguing tourists and residents of tourist areas for many years,...

BERT MALLEY | Local | CONTACT Looking perky in a popped-button business shirt and blue blazer, in front of a plain white background, financial relationship manager Ron Frankham has reported an uptick in interest thanks to a change in his social media profile. “My old photo was the same as my Facebook one,” he said, “and it was a bit lo-res, to be honest. But...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A study conducted by the Australian Opposite-Sex Relationship Lobby has found that a local Betoota man by the name of Roddy has spent most a large portion of the last few years listening to his girlfriend delicately describe every single thing that happened in her dream, despite the fact that it wasn't even a good dream by the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Aside from migrants and bushies who originate from landlocked, drought stricken terrains - there is actually a population of Australians who don't know how to swim. Like people that grew up around relatively large bodies of water who just never learnt. Recent findings by the YMCA show that roughly 25% of Australians over the age of 15 are not...