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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Northside of Melbourne is currently awash with book clubs, lycra cyclist outfits and pottery wheels - as the city's urban elite come to the crushing realisation that 'taking pride in not leaving the house' is no longer considered a valid personality. While being privileged enough to be able to work from home during the pandemic lockdown gave an...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A recent report by all the lads has found that Bozza's younger brother, Bomber, has actually grown into a real cracker of a bloke. This comes after the young fella came steaming into the pub on Saturday afternoon and absolutely roasted all of his older brother's mates with classic banter while drilling schooners. Once pigeon-holed as the annoying little shit...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT After a year of not eating as much as she should and spending most of her commission-based marketing paychecks on public transport and £12 glasses of aperol spritz, Perth girl Sophie Evans says she could only ever live in a big city if she returned to Australia. "Like Perth is home. But it's a bit of a country town...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT As the rise of legally grey and potentially dangerous nicotine vaping devices continues to tear through schools and workplaces without any of our elected officials having any fucking idea about what is going - the line between recreational and full blown habitual second-nature is growing increasingly thin. And with this new wave of addicts comes a complete lack of...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Federal Police can today reveal updates in their investigation into the Optus Cyberattack, with new information suggesting that the hacker had performed time travel before breaching the privacy of millions of Australians. On Monday night, the seemingly amateur cyberattacker released a text file of 10,000 records of Optus customers, promising to leak 10,000 each day for the next four...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local motorist Ross Mince (55, school sports coordinator) woke up at the crack of dawn this morning to catch the last of that sweet, sweet Frydenberg fuel excise. This comes as fuel prices are set to increase today, after the tax cut made by the previous government six months ago to get them through an election they lost anyway,...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT After ten years of dragging the chain on privacy protections to focus on tweaking religious discrimination laws, the Australian Government is today panicking about the fact that we have literally zero protections from Cyberattacks. On Monday night, the very amateur cyberattacker released a text file of 10,000 records of Optus customers, promising to leak 10,000 each day for the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT As the Australian's media obsession with impressing the British Royal family continues, it has become evidently clear that the conservative 'free speech' warriors have suspended their libertarian values for the entire length of this never-ending mourning period. This comes as 2GB shock jock Ray Hadley takes issue with an Indigenous NRLW star expressing her honest feelings about the legacy...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The world continues to commemorate the late monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, who died at her Scottish estate at the age of 96 last Thursday night. Royal subjects right across the Commonwealth are this week mourning the world’s second-longest-serving monarch, paying tribute to the connection she held with the type of people who enjoy reading New Idea and watching The...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT With the passing of Queen Elizabeth II overnight, the outpouring of mournful tributes are soon to be replaced by a landslide of logistics. Firstly, orchestrating the handover to the new King Charles, known as Operation London Bridge. Then of course there is the Queen's funeral - a globally televised event that will rival the 2022 Birmingham Commgames for ratings. And then...