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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THE LAST THING STEPHEN VICKER slid into the top of his suitcase was Paul Kelly's Greatest Hits. A couple months earlier, he'd sorted out his Youth Mobility Visa and a one-way ticket to London, thinking he was about to embark on the adventure of his young life. When he arrived in London, he quickly found a...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact "THEY'RE NOT GOING TO be tongue-kissing and jerking each other off beside the fencing supplies down at my local CRT, so why should I have a say in their lives?" That's the opinion of one West Wyalong farmer - and he's not alone. Thousands of surveyed primary producers are in favour of same-sex marriage plebiscite because it...

9 March, 2016. 11:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Recently divorced local man, Brad Paisley, says barbecuing in bed is in his top five most favourite things to do since he separated from his wife of twenty-five years. "It's great," says Brad. "Being divorced is great in general. I get an empty house when the kids visit their mum's place - so now...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local Baby Boomer, John Gorman, has been using social media for approximately 18 months. In that time, 90% of his social media activity has been solely based around referring to young people, immigrants, refugees, poor people and Aboriginal people as 'bludgers'. Today, he's even gone as far as calling the devastated Great Barrier Reef as bludger,...

29 January, 2016 10:30 GRAHAM HENDERSON | Lifestyle | CONTACT A 42-year-old Queensland man has been suddenly stricken with a strong case of glaucoma whilst reading amendments to the Therapeutic Goods Act. “It came on so suddenly” said Richard Hua. “My eyes were a bit dry from reading the news, so I did some online research and diagnosed myself as having chronic glaucoma.” “A quick visit to Wikipedia...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact PROMINENT BLUE MOUNTAINS MC Lil KoneKunt was rushed to hospital in the early hours of this morning after becoming the latest victim in the ongoing gang violence that's plagued Australia's hip hop scene for years. At approximately 3:30 am AEST, the 25-year-old was allegedly set upon by a group of men in the carpark of a Penrith fast...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local man, James Wells (27), will not be making it through to the second round of interviews in his most recent application for a mid-to-high-level financial management position in a reputable CBD office. The interviewer, Brian Campwell (58), says that while James' past experience and tertiary education was up to scratch, he could not have possibly hired someone who...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The former Prime Minister looked the Diamantina Shire mayor in the eye, shook his hand and lied to him. In a part of the nation where you're only worth as much as your word, Tony Abbott promised Geoff Morton that the National Broadband fibre optic network would come to the desert country, ending years of lobbying and campaigning for...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local kid Archie Sinclair is currently fantasising about different ways to burn his entire primary school down with everyone still inside it. These dark thoughts have been triggered by the classroom's extremely embarrassing response to him accidentally referring to his third-grade teacher, Ms Patterson, as 'mum'. What Archie (8) initially thought was a near-inaudible freudian slip, quickly turned into a...

  CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local man, Fraser Cassidy, is just about to begin the second meeting of his busy day today. Later tonight, he has to endure a dinner date with his new kind-of girlfriend, Georgia. Despite booking a last-minute dinner reservation at a high-end restaurant, Mr Cassidy is still in the depths of one of the worst hangovers he has had this year. "I'm ordering...