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8 August, 2015. 13:06 IMRAN GASHKORI | Sports | Contact AUSTRALIAN selectors have shocked the sporting world today by announcing that Shane Watson is set to replace the out-of-form Steven Smith for the next Ashes test at The Oval in London. Only a month ago, Watson was dumped from the team after his 36-month-long form slump was finally too much for Coach...

6 August, 2015. 11:59 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact HE'S THE ONLY Member of Parliament to make the BRW Rich List. With an estimated net worth of around AU$200 million, Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull may be forced into a political role he never wanted. The harsh reality that Mr Turnbull is facing right now is that he's the only representative who can afford...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact POLICE in Brisbane are calling it “fightin' in a bottle”, a type of rum known on the streets as cane champagne or biff syrup that’s making users handsome and psychotic while giving them a superhuman ability to make ripper calls and punch people senseless. The dark spirit, which cops say is prevalent in the rugby...

2 August, 2015. 13:14 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THE CONTROVERSIAL THROAT-SLITTING haka has been given the all clear by World Rugby ahead of the Rugby World Cup, which is due to kick off in London in just over four weeks time. The move comes after a number of national rugby boards from around the world asking for the sport's governing body to...

28 July, 2015. 15:06 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IMMIGRATION MINISTER PETER Dutton has confirmed that US rapper Tyler, The Creator has been banned from entering the country. The decision was handed down this morning after the government agreed that the 24-year-old "was not of good character" and potentially harmful. While many speculated that the controversial artist was barred from entering the...

27 July, 2015. 16:09 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THERE IS A PART of Northern Australia that's still untouched by the outside world. Outsiders who dare to visit are often greeted with hostility. They have their archaic views mocked and their livelihoods called in to disrepute. As a young man from neighbouring Charleville found out the hard way in 2004. He travelled to this tiny lost pocket of...

  July 22, 2015. 11:35 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact THOUSANDS OF AUSTRALIAN NATIONALISTS are being universally laughed at this week after it was revealed that their official anti-Islamic rally anthem belongs to one of the most well-known Muslim rock stars of all time. Protests across Australia took place over the weekend, with clashes between anti-Muslim and anti-racism demonstrators. The Reclaim Australia...

22 July, 2015. 16:06 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact FAMILY MEMBERS OF Bill Shorten have plenty of reasons to rejoice this afternoon, after the search for the missing opposition leader ended in the best possible way. Shorten was reportedly lost in the political wilderness for nearly seven months, but has returned to lacklustre form today by releasing a policy that is the ying to...

20 July, 2015. 165:52 IMRAN GASHKORI | Sports Editor | Contact   Online retailer, Sigmund Supplies, sold out of their new line of #FreeTomic T-shirts in just under three hours, over the weekend. The T-shirts were designed and put to print over the weekend, upon hearing the news that the bad-boy of Australian tennis, Bernard Tomic had been arrested after incessant noise complaints in a Miami Hotel. The...

  July 13, 2015. 15:00 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Charlie Pickering wants government to go further than gay marriage pushing for equal rights who people who want to marry themselves. Charlie Pickering's need to lecture the world has been unquenchable since his successful Wednesday night show 'The Weekly' began on the ABC earlier this year, generating popular online content with his week-by-week synopsis of already...