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LOUIS BURKE | Culture | Contact Local sales manager Kerine Wright (24) has had a hard time convincing her grandma Olive Murphy (84) that Japan is a safe holiday destination as her nana continues to not trust the Japanese. Planning on visiting Japan for only the third time this year, Wright states her grandma’s experiences as a child during World War 2 forged lifelong opinions about...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A Central African community has today made headlines around the world, after building a school all by themselves, without help from any unskilled Australian aid volunteers. The village, which has been at the centre of Australian charity drives before, has managed to pull together the local supplies and labour needed to construct a one storey school house, complete with...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT With the FIFA World Cup underway, it appears there is far less concern about the possibility of terror attacks on crowds of soccer fans in Moscow, mainly because most terrorist organisations are nowhere as scary as Russian soccer fans. Russia declared the FIFA World Cup open in a ceremony full of music, dance and some cultural celebrations at the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A new study by the Australian Bureau Of Statistics has found that 93% of all expatriated Pākehā women living in Australia have short cropped hair and sound exactly the same as that comedian Cal Wilson. Pākehā is a Māori-language term for New Zealanders of European descent. The term has also recently come to refer inclusively either to fair-skinned persons, or to any non-Māori New Zealander. While exclusive to the New...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Former US President Barack Obama has shared with his dinner guests what he would've said to Kim Jong-Un face-to-face if he had the chance. Hosting a collection of geopolitical specialists in his grand Washington DC home tonight (local time), Obama even laughed off suggestion from a half-drunk Al Gore that he would've sent a drone...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Bill Clinton has today confronted a re-emergence of his controversial sexual misconduct as President, stating while he believes the #MeToo movement is overdue, it's not something that should be associated with him because he's a nice guy. During an interview with NBC’s Today Show on Monday, Clinton faced questions about whether he should have resigned 20 years ago over...

Following the announcement of the sixth instalment of Pirates of the Carribean franchise, Disney has confirmed lovable criminal Johnny Depp will reprise his role as loveable criminal Captain Jack Sparrow in a story that will involve him stealing treasure directly from the audience’s wallet. Not much is known about the plot yet other than the booty plundered from the pockets...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT In keeping with their tradition of casting briefly important black male characters that are played by actors who starred in The Wire, AMC's The Walking Dead has today announced that Idris Elba will be season nine's new expendable black male. Idris Elba, who's character's name is reported to be one that you don't really remember, unlike Rick or Darryl,...

In another win for Australians actors, Melbourne native Ben Mendelsohn has been cast in a Hollywood blockbuster as a man of authority caught in a power struggle. Not wanting to spoil too much about the upcoming action feature, Mendelsohn promised audiences that there will be lots of action his character witnesses from afar and that he will get red-faced as...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A recent report by the CSIRO has found that there are no more nice guys left in the world, after the nicest guy in the world has been accused of being a creep. This comes after countless high-profile nice guys have been found to be not nice guys, in what has been described as the most blatant example of...