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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Cyclone Jasper is expected to make landfall in Far North Queensland as a category two storm today, bringing gale-force winds and heavy rainfall to some of Australia's most popular tourist destinations in peak season. As the ever resilient locals of the Deep North begin battening down the hatches, the pre-Christmas tourists are also being recruited to join in. The tropical...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Costello Newspapers of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age are this week taking extreme measures to keep their reporters on track, and not letting them get distracted by what's actually happening in the world. It is not certain if the editorial staff are aware that this self-defeatist approach to narrative control appears to be accelerating the irrelevance...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The NSW government’s plan to address housing crisis by rezoning land around train stations has been accidentally revealed, causing deep upset amongst some of the most serious punters in greater Sydney. According to the plan, Sydney’s inner-outer will gain up to two new metro stations and Rosehill racecourse could become the site for tens of thousands of homes, in...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT A Bondi man is causing shockwaves around the nation, after revealing some groundbreaking news.  Speaking exclusively to our reporters from inside the Bondi Bubble, the resident of the glamorized coastal urban enclave explained that he’s got a new side hustle as a host on Turo.  While a man with a side hustle in Bondi isn’t exactly news, (given there are...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT The Federal Government has today finally done something to combat the worsening cost of living crisis. With more people struggling to put food on the table than ever before, calls have grown louder for the people in charge of the nation to fix 'the greatest country on earth.' Now, finally, the government has heeded these calls, not by...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT A local store for a giant Supermarket chain has been commended for lavishing it's overworked and lowly paid employees this weekend. The Betoota Heights store whose employees earn a tiny bit above minimum wage reportedly treated its staff to a Christmas Party function at the shittest pub in the area, FitzGilGoooleys. With the party pies, sausage rolls, and...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A Betoota Heights sexagenarian is coming to terms this morning that the man he stoically defended around Christmas tables and dinner parties with stupid lefties could actually be the person that they claimed him to be. Today in the Sydney Morning Elite Private School Newsletter, investigative reporter Kate McClymont detailed a number of allegations made...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The 7:30 Report's finance reporter, Alan Kohler, is officially public enemy number one for the Australian political and media class. This comes after his recent Quarterly Essay, titled The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It. In over 20,000 words, Kohler gently explains how young people aren't actually crazy and, yes, the median house prices in our...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. And for Brisbane-based paralegal, Corey Monkflat (25) that means he needs a refresher course on the rural Australian art of fistfighting on slippery tiles. This whirlwind crash course has resulted in Corey taking upwards of four boxing classes a week, as he prepares himself for local townies giving him shit about going...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT It seems that allowing fundamentalist Christian voices and property developers to take the reins of the state government for an entire decade has actually left New South Wales in a state of irreversible chaos. That was confirmed last week with the opening of the new Rozelle Interchange - also known as the 'Spaghetti Junction' which has caused major traffic...