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21 March, 2016. 11:28 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IT'S NOT HAUNTED and nobody was gruesomely murdered there. Nor is it under the flight path of the local airport. Located the Brisbane blue-ribbon suburb of Ascot, this charming Queenslander is only moments from the city. It's on the market for nearly a million dollars less than the neighbouring property - but that's problem. The neighbours. After...

21 March, 2016. 8:28 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact GRADUATING AT THE TOP of your class isn't easy, no matter what you do. But for one Sydney law graduate, it came quite naturally. 24-year-old Sophia Ellis-Walter was admitted as a lawyer by the Supreme Court of New South Wales a month ago and since then, she's barely had enough time to sleep,...

18 March, 2016. 16:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact POLICE IN NARCOTICS HOTSPOTS will be keeping an eye on people using ATMs this weekend, looking for people withdrawing $300 - the average cost of a decent bag of cocaine. The leafy Sydney suburbs of Bondi, Double Bay and Lakemba will be under the microscope, while New Farm, Hawthorne and Banyo have...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN around Australia have had the perfect gift to give their Dad on birthdays, Father's Days and Christmases for over a decade - and it's all thanks to one man. Peter FitzSimons. Those days might be coming to an end after the former Wallaby revealed this morning that he's running out of interesting...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Tens of thousands of revellers around Australia instantly regret buying that first pint of Guinness on St Patrick's Day each year. If they can power through until the bottom of the glass, they sure as hell aren't going to be ordering another one. "There's two reasons why I'm switching to XXXX Gold after this pint," said Brisbane...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local accountant, Dion Macey is not racist because he has plenty of black friends, he has confirmed. Shortly before, and after, his twenty minute tirade about "what is best for Aboriginals" - Mr Macey insisted on pointing out that his politically incorrect comments came from a good place. "Don't get me wrong, I've got plenty of black...

15 March, 2016. 15:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Balmain resident, Nigel Waspey says his brief encounter with Sydney's working class community will probably be his last. Despite living in Balmain for over five years, the 48-year-old graphic designer had never been to a live NRL match at nearby Leichhardt oval. That was until yesterday afternoon. "A lot of the bars and...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact "THEY'RE NOT GOING TO be tongue-kissing and jerking each other off beside the fencing supplies down at my local CRT, so why should I have a say in their lives?" That's the opinion of one West Wyalong farmer - and he's not alone. Thousands of surveyed primary producers are in favour of same-sex marriage plebiscite because it...

9 March, 2016. 11:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IN THE SAME WEEK THAT Clive Palmer pledged to save Queensland Nickel from collapse, the 61-year-old exposed a part of himself that's seldom seen in his world of high finance and politics - a love of classic cinema. Nodding to early masterpieces such as the 1936 landmark film Reefer Madness, a tale...

8 March, 2016. 11:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Minister for Women Michaelia Cash's stubborn refusal to identify as a woman has been met with criticisms, after the heterosexual female declared she is not interested in carrying labels on last night's episode of ABC Q&A. During the program, Michaelia Cash also refused to associate herself with the tag of 'feminist' -...