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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Australian Greens have come a long way since Bob Brown decided to take a merry gang of Melbourne yuppies on a convoy up to Central Queensland to lose the election for Bill Shorten in 2019 - as the party moderates itself into into a force to be reckoned with in Parliament House. After spending 30 years running self-defeatists...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT As of yesterday, the arguably premature family Christmas preparations are no longer an immediate priority in households right Australia. This comes as the woman at the centre of a mushroom lunch that resulted in the deaths of three people, has faced court in regional Victoria this week, after she was charged with 3 counts of murder and 5 counts...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Canberra Police have been publicly humiliated today, as their officers stand accused of falsifying their statements to get a conviction against two high-profile Indigenous men. The Chief Executive of the Canberra Raiders has today torn strips off the ACT cops who have perservered with charging NRL star Jack Wighton and Latrell Mitchell with fabricated evidence. Don Furner said yesterday's...

ALISON SCHENK | Entertainment | Contact THE QUEEN IS SPEAKING: In perhaps the most anticipated memoir release since the gingernut prince, Queen of Pop and angel on earth Britney Spears’ new memoir ‘The Woman in Me’ has hit shelves across the globe this week to an unprecedented response.  The memoir details the both beautiful and horrific life of Britney Spears so far, and fans are...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT After taking a brief 12 second look around it has been confirmed that the entire world is running on wedding prices right now. Now that everything worth paying for, and subscriptions to The Australian, are more expensive than ever before, a quick assessment of the world confirms we are paying wedding prices for everything but without an open bar in sight. In an era where finding...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT As the planet teeters on the edge of WW3, or at the very least another 20 year war in the Middle East that causes more problems than it ever meant to solve, it seems our leaders are having to put the cost-of-living crisis on pause. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, the once founder of the federal Parliamentary Friends of...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT After a few long months off the piss, a local bloke is now perfectly comfortable heading to the pub for a night out with his mates and not touching a drop. Local sales gun, Brendo (29), wouldn't describe himself as 'in recovery' but as a professional who is required to suck piss for a living, he started to see...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Bethany Cunningham (23), says she knows it sounds like kind of harsh, but the only reason the Indigenous Voice referendum was unsuccessful is because immigrants and the generational working class Western Suburbs residents are more susceptible to misinformation campaigns because they are less educated. The Newtown-based post-grad arts student says she really cannot fathom a population of four million...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT The hardest working bloke in Parliament House, plumber Gerry Godrich (54) is enjoying a well-earned sleep-in this morning as he no longer has to show up to work to change the bubblers on his Sunday morning. This follows the news that Australians will remain divided by a ten-year life expectancy gap, after a multimillion dollar campaign to 'stop the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Clare Simpkins-Mattingly used to burn bras at University. She used to march against Australia's involvement in Vietnam, she she used to dream about travelling Africa to help the kids - but her staunch military father insisted she settle down and find herself a good rugby player with a future in small retailing businesses. She was introduced to her now husband,...