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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Tuesday to 34 felony charges that he falsified business records to hide $130,000 in hush money he paid in the last weeks of his 2016 presidential campaign. The 76-year-old departed Florida on Monday, before surrendering himself at the Manhattan Criminal Court early Tuesday afternoon - where he was placed under arrest. He...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Social media is awash today with confronting imagery from down south, after a group of 30 literal Nazis marched through the centre of one of Australia's biggest cities in fully coordinated uniforms. The men performed Nazi salutes as part of an anti-Trans rally as clashes broke out between protesters and the police guarding them, in scenes reminiscent of the...

ALISON SCHENK | Entertainment | Contact After taking home his first Oscar in the Year of the Underdog, Brendan Fraser has once again cemented himself back into the minds of the public as ‘just a really great bloke hey’.  Speaking at a press junket about his new movie which won him the Best Actor statue at the 2023 Academy Awards this past Sunday in America...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Diplomatic and factional tensions are high in Canberra this week, as Albanese faces foreign and internal backlash for his decision to go through with Scott Morrison's rushed AUKUS nuclear submarine deal. This comes nearly two years after Australia was forced to pay $500 million to rip up its multi-billion dollar submarine contract with the French – so that Scotty...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT In some exciting news from La La land, a couple of home grown heroes have managed to win an Oscar! The boys behind the Fitzroy Garage Sesh have taken out the Academy Award for best set design. Titled 'Best Production Design' the award recognises achievement for art direction in film, and is set to come down under after...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Hollywood's annual night of nights is upon us, as the 95th Academy Awards kicks off at Dolby Theatre, hosted by Jimmy 'Flight Logs' Kimmel. The Oscar winners in all 23 categories currently being rattled off, with an extra kick of excitement after three years of pandemic nerves. "Everything Everywhere All at Once" has come in as the lead nominee ahead...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Oscars are finally back, without masks and rapid tests, this Sunday night (PST) - as movie stars and nameless corporate predators gather to recognise the best films of the last 12 months. Jimmy 'Flight Logs' Kimmel will take to the stage as the first solo host since he host last time in 2018, and will no doubt be...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Embattled tech billionaire, Elon Musk is this week continuing to destroy his once slick 'Ironman-like' reputation by the minute, as the stateless apartheid nepo-baby insists on live-tweeting every minute of his mid-life crisis. This comes after an extraordinarily cringeworthy spree of Tweets posted by the Twitter owner himself, where he is seen to ridicule and terminate the employment of...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT A local couple is today discussing how to wriggle their way out of some boring ass family event. Known around the world as Harry and Meghan, the Royal pair (who don't wanna be Royals despite using the fame of being Royals when it suits them), told The Advocate that they are trying to figure out how to bail...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT The United States Military has this week achieved a new level of success. The people behind the computers that fire things into the sky, have managed to finally make it through the next level of Bloons TD. Their exciting achievement comes after countless failed attempts, with the level they were stuck on being described as 'hella hard.' For those...