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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT American Music executives and touring promoters remain relatively confused this week, ahead of North Carolina country superstar Luke Combs' long-awaited tour of Australia and New Zealand. Australian fans hoping to attend one of the stadium shows in this massive world tour had to be quick on the draw - as tickets sold at a Taylor Swift-warp speed. Combs first...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT An exhausted frontline worker on the main street of Byron Bay has today treated her anxious valium and linen-riddled customers with a couple silver linings. "Yeah it's great to still work in the town I grew up in" says the bubbly but visibly exhausted local check-out chick, Shirley Parkway (29). With dark rings under her eyes, this daughter of the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Australian Government has today made it clear that they would rather run the risk of calling another election rather than address the concerns of young working Australians with an alternative Housing Bill. While hiding behind the media noise surrounding the Indigenous Voice Referendum, the Labor MPs tasked with ensuring Australians are afforded the human right of warm shelter...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT ATO employee Keyser Gruber, has today been assigned a mission that will test the human spirit. As a professional auditor, tasked with taking down the most teflon perpetrators of tax fraud, Keyser has enjoyed a career of keeping the bastards honest. From shonky landlords to cash laundering driving schools - there's no system too subtle for this bean counting...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Barbie Movie is continuing to outperform outperform predictions, as millions of women and gay men excitedly charge into cinemas right around the world, and straight men excitedly force themselves to walk a bit slower. After grossing over $200 million at the domestic box office in the opening, Barbie has already surpassed “John Wick: Chapter 4” ($187 million) as...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT "There's too much going on" says North Brisbane diesel mechanic Kerry Cassar (34). Like every other citizen over the age of 18, Kerry will be asked later this year whether or not he thinks that Aboriginal people should be recognised in the Australian constitution - and whether we should install an office in Canberra for Indigenous people to advise...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT In case you haven't been across the news lately, Australia's media pundits and political commentators are mortified by the Albanese Government's decision to hold a national referendum over whether or not we should include Aboriginal people in the constitution. There is also a great deal of skepticism surrounding the idea of providing Aboriginal community leaders with a platform to...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT In news that you definitely haven't read in any of the newspapers that are owned by Kerry Stokes, Peter Costello or Rupert Murdoch - it seems that the Australian governments controversial 'automated debt assessment and recovery' software known as Robodebt was actually illegal. And what's worse, the evil political elites that implemented this software were warned by their own...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Dark Princess Of upper middle class Betoota has today secretly listened to a few albums that will be immediately removed from her playlists. Kylie Miles (17) has made a point of not adhering to contemporary pop culture trends, ever since she swapped her barbie dolls for toy dinosaurs in kindergarten. As a self-declared and self-styled goth, her parents know...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT "Why don't you go watch an Australian singer" Betoota Heights dad, Nic Koronis (45) says to his three teenage daughters who are gathered around the laptop this morning. "What about someone like Natalie Imbruglia, or Vanessa Amarossi... What's the obsession with this yank shit" This follows the news that the pre-sale tickets for the Sydney shows of the Taylor Swift...