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Scientists update status of Australian Music Festivals from ‘endangered’ to ‘verging on extinction’

ENTERTAINMENT |

Concerned scientists have made a major declaration today, warning the Australian Music Festivals (which have sat on the endangered list for years) are now officially classified as ‘verging on extinction’ following a year of cancellations including Groovin’ the Moo and Splendour in the Grass.

“This could be catastrophic,” said one scientist, “the effects an extinction would be a major blow to the ecosystem. We simply have no way of knowing what impact it would have on independent Australian artists and the trust fund kids who are the only people left who can afford to go to these festivals.”

“A range of factors have gotten us to this point. From the cost of living crisis, to the lack of arts funding, the ever increasing cost of drugs at these events and most importantly the terrible line-ups that haven’t updated in 15 years.”

“In nature you need to adapt to survive, but there has been no sign of adaptation from Australian festivals for decades. We fear that without proper intervention the entire musical festival circuit could be gone before we know it.”

In response to the experts, the Australian Government has announced they will make good on their election promises to continue to hold press conferences about how much they love the arts. With funding to be directly allocated to buying a shirt for the Prime Minister featuring the name of whichever band comes up when his chief of staff googles ‘youth band Australia’.

Shocking: young people aren’t spending hundreds during a cost of living crisis to see musicians from 10 years ago

GENERAL NEWS |

In news that has shocked every person in the country, annual music festival Splendour In The Grass has been cancelled this year after for some reason young people didn’t feel like spending hundreds of dollars to go during a cost of living crisis.

Like many other festivals this year, Splendour was called off in devastating news for drug dealers and trust fund kids who refer to themselves as ‘a bloodly legend’. For those communities, the event was the closest thing they have to a religious holiday.

“Sacrifices had to be made,” said Jeremy aged 26, “”it was a tough choice between paying a month’s worth of rent or seeing what are they called? Arcane Fire? Arcade Fire? I don’t know.”

Many took to social media to show their anger at the festival being cancelled, before clarifying that they aren’t angry enough that they would actually buy tickets to attend it if it still went ahead.

Liberal Party proves they no longer have a problem with women by choosing a failed male politician over two women to try take back a seat from a woman

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The Liberal Party have taken a massive stance to prove to voters that they no longer have a problem with women by choosing former politician Tim Wilson over two other female candidates in order to try and win back a seat currently held by a woman.

“Last election we were shocked to learn that women are allowed to vote these days,” said Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, “but it turns out we need to win their votes too. So I had a chat with Former Minister for Women Abbott and came to the best choice to win over the ladies.”

“It’s clear that Tim Wilson is the person for the job. Sure he may have lost humiliatingly badly, but when it comes to taking back the job from a woman, we knew the best choice had to be the man.”

“Plus this means one less woman whose desk can be jizzed on, which is progress to a safer party where there are no women who have desks for us to wank onto.”

Guy who doesn’t question why ‘completed’ flat pack has a bunch of ‘extra’ parts, recently hired as Boeing engineer

GENERAL NEWS |

Local self-declared handyman James Davidson has been offered a job as a Boeing engineer after his amazing work attempting to put a flat-pack cupboard together and just assuming that the many left over parts are just the extra pieces they add sometimes.

“I am so excited for this opportunity,” he said while posting a picture of the cupboard that is clearly about to collapse, “I’ve never done anything like it before but they reckon if anything I am over qualified for making a jumbo jet as cheaply as possible.”

“I did my first one today and the builders were like ‘why is there so many extra parts?’ but I told them about how planes tend to come with a few hundred extra screws, hinges and panels. So we’ll just keep them for the next one.”

In response to the new quality standards of planes, airlines around the globe have begun surprising passengers with extra weight fees, “it’s not just about profit, it’s also about safety. When we buy the cheapest jet available to increase profit margins, customers need to understand that it means they can’t bring a full suitcase of luggage and should probably leave some stuff at home for safety.”

“Same goes with whether you really need the extra weight of wearing both shoes onto the plane. That’s why we will start charging a ‘second shoe’ fee too.”

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers officially warned new royal photos may contain images of deceased persons

GENERAL NEWS |

The Australian Government has released a warning to First Nations communities, saying they can no longer guarantee the well-being of people in photos from the Royal Palace.

“We are sorry for any potential harm that images of the Royal Family may cause to First Nations communities,” said a government representative, “like in general. It has nothing to do with the recent Kate Middleton images, I just know seeing their smug grins can be super upsetting.”

The British embassy has yet to comment but did release a four eyed photo of King Charles with the caption “Everyone is doing fine”.

Kate Middleton turns down Charles’s idea for a photo-op in a Paris tunnel

WORLD |

Princess Kate Middleton has reportedly caused chaos in Buckingham Palace after refusing King Charles’s suggestion to calm down the conspiracy theories surrounding Kate by holding a photo-op in a Paris tunnel.

“It’s a family tradition,” King Charles told Princess Kate, “people want to know where you are while you’re being a pain in our asses and a quick photo-op with paparazzi following you through a Paris tunnel doing what they do best, would clear everything up.”

“We always have this is a back-up plan ready to go. I offer Meghan a driving tour of the tunnels every week as a sort of apology for what has transpired but she never accepts either.”

“Anyway I hear the tunnels are amazing this time of year, far better than that boring French countryside. So much room for driving around and the concrete is extra firm for putting a stop to it all. What do you say? I book a one way flight and let’s ‘bury’ these issues once and for all… so to speak.”

The Chaser’s Guide to not being ‘Woke’

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or 85 things the media says is ‘woke’ so you can avoid them.

Are you too woke? Concerned that you may accidentally be woke because of something you said? You need to keep up to date to make sure you don’t become part of the increasingly massive woke brigade!

With everyone from Anthony Albanese to Peter Dutton declaring themselves to be “anti-woke”, it’s clearly the hip thing to be.

However, many readers have expressed concern that it’s hard to keep up with what is woke nowadays. So here is a simple list of 85 things to avoid in order to stop ‘woke cancel culture’ for good:

So if you want to ‘embrace common sense’ by being ‘anti-woke cancel culture’ as the media suggests, just avoid all those things and enjoy whatever is left (although you should probably search to find out if what you are doing is woke, but also remember that search engines are woke so you can’t use those to find out).

Yours,

John Delmenico

Editor of The Chaser


This article originally appeared as part of The Chaser Weakly Newsletter, sign up for free at the bottom of the page for jokes you don’t see anywhere else!

Government that ‘cant afford’ to raise JobSeeker, finds spare $840m to give to Gina

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The federal government who constantly tells everyone there is simply no way for them to find any money for raising JobSeeker recipients out of poverty, has suddenly found a spare $840m to give to mining billionaire Gina Rinehart to raise her out of needing to pay for her own mine.

“Good governance is about priorities,” said Anthony Albanese while wiping caviar off his face, “what people need to understand is that there is no magical pool of money for us to do things like assist renters or fully fund the NDIS. Well not without hurting the billionaires who need it most.”

“A Liberal Party government would have just handed over the money, where as we have said we would like some of it back at some point, please…Totally cool if not.”

“And that is how I fight these rich tories who spend millions to spread disinformation whenever I consider a progressive policy, sometimes I don’t even kiss their ring, I just polish it for them. That is what a Labor government does best.”

“This is an extra emotional deal for me, see growing up my mum never got the chance to give a billionaire $840 million of taxpayer money for a new mine. But now I have the opportunity to.”

Families in Gaza begin work on suspicious photoshop pic in hopes to get the media worrying about their wellbeing

WORLD |

Following days of wall-to-wall coverage of the photoshopped photo of Kate Middleton and her kids, a family in Gaza has decided to try make their own suspiciously photoshopped image in the ruins of their house in hopes to get international media to start caring about their wellbeing.

“Like everyone we are really concerned for the princess,” said the mother of the family while hoping the aid truck will actually be allowed in today, “I heard she went in for abdominal surgery. Doing so at a time like this is terrifying, I mean I assume she had no anaesthetic. I just pray that the hospital she was in wasn’t bombed.”

When asked about the decision to try and make her own terrible photoshop of her family, she explained that desperate times called for desperate measures and hoped that she could trick the world into thinking what is happening to thousands of families where she is might also be worth focusing on.

“It was hard to find a laptop with photoshop on it in the refugee camp,” she explained, “but luckily one of the few remaining journalists who haven’t been killed by the IDF said we could use her one.”

“Using the program has been a real learning experience, which is great because the kids haven’t learned anything in months because their school was destroyed.”

She went on to explain that her dream would be to not only get the world’s media to start caring, but also maybe even world leaders.

“We recently had our visas to Australia cancelled for no reason, but maybe if we do this the Australian government will realise we are just as human as the Royal Family they bend over backwards to bring to Australia. And unlike them, we would actually enjoy being in the country.”

TikTok users excited to hear Americans will be banned from the app

GENERAL NEWS |

TikTok users in America were excited to here that the American Congress has actually managed to do something today, before being devastated to hear that what they are doing is moving to ban TikTok.

While the news has been met with fury from American creators on the app, users around the world have come out in strong support of the controversial ban in hopes of finally having a social media platform that is free from American users.

“I would hate to see TikTok be banned,” said John 26, “unless that ban happens in America. I mean I use the app everyday and now I’m imagining how peaceful it would be if we got rid of all the Americans?”

“All the jokes they don’t get, all the times they start arguments because they don’t get that you aren’t talking about America, the annoying culture wars, having to hear about Trump… all gone in the blink of an eye.”

“The timing with the American election is obviously concerning. Democrats were talking about how they were going to use the app to help secure the youth vote, so I hope that they act as swiftly as possible so we can save ourselves from how annoying the political content will be. No one needs to see Joe Biden try to figure out how to do a TikTok live stream.”

“At the very least they should try and save us from all the terrible Trump impressions that will flood the app again.”