General News Archive

[Edition 36] Never a modest man, Hunt none the less was, in private, a vastly different person to the gauche fishing icon he was in public. He loathed fishing, preferring to relax in his Melbourne home listening to chamber music. Even his catch-cry, “Yibbetty-Yibbetta” was somewhat contrived, being the subject of exhaustive research into what…

[Edition 30] The NASDAQ rallied today after firm reports that somebody had mentioned that they may one day purchase something over the internet. The unidentified man in his late 20s apparently sounded ‘pretty certain’ that he’d buy things over the Internet at some point. The man was overheard on the subway by an internet analyst…

[Edition 27] SYDNEY, Friday: In a move confirming the worst fears of conservatives, representatives of the gay community today announced a list of words they intend to hijack over the next five years. Among the terms slated for hijack are ‘happy’ – which will mean passive recipient of anal intercourse from the beginning of financial…

[Edition 27] Putin was not a quintessential Russian politician (his official biography at the Kremlin web-site, for example, lists him as being a “moderate drinker”), though as a young man he was spotted early on for his ability to blend in, not make waves and take minutes without engendering controversy.

[Edition 24] CANBERRA, Thursday: Seasoned front-benchers and political greenhorns alike were joined in stunned surprise today, as a sudden Cabinet reshuffle radically altered the shape of the Federal Government. The reshuffle, blamed on a suspected computer security breach at the Federal Parliament’s IT facility at Belconnen, has resulted in a radical change in the balance…