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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Morrison Government has today learnt that hell has no fury like a fed up Illawarra girl. The outgoing conservative senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells has taken a blowtorch to Prime Minister Scott Morrison in her final speech to Parliament overnight, after losing her pre-selection on the NSW Liberal Senate ticket to the politics of the Hillsong faction. Fierravanti-Wells has branded Scotty...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT An Australian thought-leader who grew up without siblings or any form of contact sport in his life is today still reeling from the vision of a smart arse being met with an open hand slap from another man. Atticus Cilento-Hopscotch (29) is purported to be a journalist from Sydney's privileged Light Rail belt, although he also moonlights as an...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT As the glitz, glamour and drama of the 2022 Oscars continues to unfold - one moment that will make the history books surrounds the actions of Will Smith just an hour ago. Smith slapped the host Chris Rock in the face live on stage during the 94th Academy Awards, after the comedian made a joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith,...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Betoota Heights-based mother of three, Bethy Mettle (35), says today's life lesson is one that she really would have preferred learning in different circumstances. "I know we shouldn't idolate mankind" she says. "But, when you go to these Hillsong conferences, it really feels like the man on stage is God" "I should have known that he would let me down. The...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Scotty From Marketing has today distanced himself from a man once described as his close personal friend and spiritual mentor, Hillsong pastor Brian Houston, who has resigned from the church over allegedly inappropriate behaviour towards two women. Australia's first Pentecostal Prime Minister said it was “entirely appropriate” for Houston to resign from the global church after complaints about his...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT As Scotty From Marketing continues to poll worse than Harold Holt at the height of the Portsea rescue effort, the only punch that seems to be landing on his Federal Opposition is the overreaching Sky News allegations that senior ALP members have effectively conspired to murder their own colleagues. While everyday Australians struggle to figure out why they should...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Scotty From Marketing's whirlwind pre-election-election campaign in Far North Queensland is not as fun as he'd hoped it would be, as the air-conditioned Sydney boy finds himself overwhelmed after 48 hours of extreme heat and humidity. The euphoria of yesterday's promise of a $60m tourism boost has already worn off, and party insiders say the PM is now starting...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Nearly two months since their high tide mark, where tens of thousands of gathered outside the Federal Parliament as part of the 'Convoy To Canberra' - and the freedom protests seem to have run out of steam. While Canada's truckers continue to make life hard for politicians in North America with their blockades and supply chain disruption, the Australian...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Despite Barnaby Joyce and Angus Taylor insisting that it is the last thing they want to do, it seems that Prime Minister Scotty From Marketing is going to announce some sort of relief for soaring petrol prices in the budget this week. It is not yet known what they'll be doing, but they have to do something, because this...

KEITH T. DENNETT | New South | CONTACT A local party shirt funboy is testing his festival fitness this afternoon, putting his core strength through a gruelling workout at a large public music event. Standing 20 metres back from the main stage at ‘Half-Baked’, Betoota’s revived arts and culture festival, 23-year-old engineering student Kyle Chambers is fighting the urge to buckle under the weight of...