News

$12,600 for dinner with Gillard

An unknown punter has forked out $4050 to be able to wrap a scarf hand-knitted by Prime Minister Julia Gillard around their neck. But dinner with senior Liberals Julie Bishop and Malcolm Turnbull proved the top ticket in the annual federal press gallery Midwinter Ball charity auction. Someone paid $13,000 for the privilege, just pipping a $12,600 bid for a dinner for with Ms Gillard. The chance for two people to join Opposition Leader Tony Abbott on his daily bike ride followed by breakfast was won with a $7100 bid. Proceeds from the auction will be divided among a range of charities. Read More →

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Sport

Bowe says Ford are crazy to leave V8 Supercars

V8 Supercars Hall of Famer John Bowe believes that Ford would be ‘crazy’ to cut its involvement in the category at the end of the season. The Blue Oval currently provides financial support to just one team, its factory outfit Ford Performance Racing, under a three-year contract that concludes ahead of 2014. Ford confirmed last month that it will cease manufacturing cars in Australia in October 2016, retiring the 56-year-old Falcon nameplate in the process. While much speculation has centered on which model Ford could race after the death of the Falcon, the company is yet to decide on the future... [Read the full story]

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Smoko

Davo’s quote of the day

“Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank and he can rob the world” Read More →

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Music

Was Ke$ha wearing underwear at Billboards

Ke$ha remains tight lipped about that dress she wore at the Billboard Music Awards recently, saying she’ll never tell us if she wore underwear! Ke$ha’s black Givenchy dress with a dangerous hip-high split on either side, caused a huge stir with everyone speculating if she was going commando or somehow hiding a tiny pair of undies! However, the Crazy Kids singer hinted that perhaps she wasn’t wearing any knickers! “I’m never going to tell, that’s a secret that’s gonna go with me to my grave!” Ke$ha said. “We had to look at how windy it was outside before I decided I was gonna... [Read the full story]

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Life

Adam the Atheist – Lessons from the Bible

If you don’t already know me, my name is Adam…and I am an atheist. Here’s an interesting tale found in Matthew 21:19; Mark 11:13-14. Jesus is walking from Bethany and he’s feeling a bit peckish. He encounters a fig tree, but unfortunately it is barren as it’s the off season for figs. Annoyed, Jesus demands the fig tree bear him fruit, however the fig tree doesn’t respond. That’s right Jesus, however mighty you may think you are…trees do not talk. Didn’t your dad tell you this when he created the world and everything in it? Anyway, so Jesus, in an act of... [Read the full story]

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Quickies

Snakes CAN open doors!

Snakes are pretty scary, but at least when they’re in zoos or you’re watching them from the other side of a glass tank you can sleep safe in the knowledge that they can’t get to you. This assumption may however prove to be your undoing, as footage has emerged of every ophidiophobe’s worst nightmare: A snake that can open doors. Read More →

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Chin-Wag

Amanda Bynes calls Miley Cyrus “Ugly”

Amanda Bynes has found her latest Twitter target: Miley Cyrus. After going on a microblogging rampage that’s already ensnared everyone from her father to Drake, Bynes has now aimed her vitriol at the “We Can’t Stop” singer. Shortly after midnight last night, Bynes tweeted a brisk message to...

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Michael Douglas: “Oral sex caused my cancer”

Michael Douglas’ spokesman Allen Burry has released a statement explaining that the actor was just saying that oral sex can cause cancer, not that it necessarily led to his diagnosis. Previously… Michael Douglas opened up about his past diagnosis, revealing that oral sex, not smoking or drinking, caused...

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Heath Ledger’s Joker diary appears in video

A diary compiled by Heath Ledger while working on The Dark Knight can been seen in a video that has surfaced online. The footage appears to be a clip from an episode of the German documentary series Too Young to Die. The diary contains pages of cut-out clippings and photos of Ledger in character, accompanied by handwritten...

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On this day…in 1979

Judge John Wood, known as “Maximum John,” is assassinated outside his San Antonio, Texas, home as he bent down to look at a flat tire on his car. Charles Harrelson, father of actor Woody Harrelson was charged with the murder after evidence revealed that drug kingpin Jimmy Chagra, whose case was about to...

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