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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact A Canberra man has been arrested and transported to Goulburn Supermax today, after an AFP raid on his eco-friendly home in the Australian capital. "We have reason to believe this man has close links to the CEFC, and in particular, their solar power division," said AFP spokesmen, Ken Nagas. "New laws state that this man's keen interest...

10 July, 2015. 15:06 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IT'S LIKE TINDER, but for people who want to fight. That's the message this morning from the NSW government as they look in to alternative measures to clamp down on the scourge of alcohol-fuelled violence. Police minister Stuart Ayres says the new app, which will be available for download within weeks, aims to...

July 10, 2015. 11:10 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact A Breeza man has said he is "not overly concerned" about the news that his own government approved the highly contentious Shenhua Watermark coal mine in his local electorate, despite his vehement protests. Berrick Blackett, a fourth-generation sorghum farmer, says he'll just have to wait and see how the project plays out -...

8 July, 2015. 15:06 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact SHANE WARNE HAS stunned the crowds at a UK charity cricket match by debuting his new look, as well as bowling out the entire opposing team around their legs with classic legbreaks. The controversial 45-year-old has also lashed out at the tabloids for continuing to spread rumours of him having plastic surgery, something...

  CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Hundreds of thousands celebrate this week, as NAIDOC week begins in both schools and workplaces, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians pay tribute to the country's first nations people. Their achievements, contributions and culture. However, in the leafy enclave of Pymble - in Sydney's North Shore, Stephanie Rathbone is confused. "I've been hearing about this NAIDOC thing all...

30 June, 2015. 14:02 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact HARRY SARKIS ARRIVED in Australia in 1958 with a suitcase full of dreams and drachmas. He settled quickly in to Sydney's Earlwood Greek community, scraping together enough money to start a fruit shop on Homer St, which snakes through the inner-southwestern suburb. Joined by his brother and cousin in the early 1960's, the...

June 30, 2015. 10:40 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact A late entry into this year's Archibald Prize has left judges stunned, as the daughter of Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott submits the first official portrait of her father. According to the Herald, it has been revealed that the trustee board of the famous art prize made an exception to all submission deadlines,...

June 29, 2015. 09:10 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott has offended millions of people around the world with what has been described as a "backward, distasteful attempt at a joke". In an attempt to make light of a current social media trend of adding rainbow filters to facebook photographs, Mr Abbott has seen a bizarre "zinger"...

29 June, 2015. 14:04 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A GROUP OF young real estate entrepreneurs have agreed to end their lives should interest rates break through 8%. Dubbed the 'Hoxton Park Four' by the media, the 20-something investors have formed a suicide pact should interest rates unsustainably increase in the future. Many young property investors have taken out gargantuan mortgages in the past 24 months,...

25 June, 2015. 16:32 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact JUDGING BY RECENT media reports, the use of marijuana for medical purposes could become legal in Australia in the foreseeable future. Politicians such as the Prime Minister, NSW Premier Mike Baird and Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews have expressed their support for the idea, and a clinical trial is due to start soon. But...