World’s Longest Golf Course Spans 1,365 Kilometers, Takes 5 Days to Complete
There are some long golf courses out there, some covering over 8,000 yards, but they all seem tiny when compared to the world’s longest golf course, which spans a whopping 1,365 kilometers. Nullabor Links is an 8-hole par-72 golf course that stretches along the Eyre Highway, from Kalgoorlie in Western Australia to Ceduna in South […]
Jilted Lover Gets Back at Woman Who Dumped Him With Fake Chewbacca Roar Contest
An Australian mother-of-three made international news headlines this week after she became the target of an original prank thought up by her ex boyfriend for dumping her. When it comes to getting back at your ex-partner after being dumped, it just doesn’t get more original than advertising a Chewbacca roar contest and encouraging total strangers […]
Pensioner Spends Eight Years and $50,000 Trying to Evict Daughter From His Apartment
An 84-year-old retired farmer from Melbourne, Australia, has been trying to get his own daughter evicted from his apartment for eight years, but despite spending a small fortune on legal fees, he has been unsuccessful. Peter Grundy, a retired wheat farmer from the Australian state of Victoria, has been trying to sell his apartment so […]
Dustyesky – Australia’s Popular Fake-Genuine Russian Choir
The small Australian hamlet of Mullumbimby is one of the last places on Earth you would expect to find a men’s choir singing their hearts out about the Motherland and the Red Army in Russian like they knew the language, but then again that’s what makes Dustyesky so special. Mullumbimby, a small, subtropical town near […]
Sheep Returns Home After Seven Years of Living in Tasmanian Bush
Prickles, a bare-faced merino sheep that ran away from a Tasmanian farm during the 2013 bush-fires, recently returned home, probably after deciding that it was finally time for a sheer. According to farmer Alice Gray, Prickles was only a lamb when she ran away, seven years ago. The bush fires that ravaged the area back […]
Australian Newspaper Prints Extra Blank Pages to Mock Toilet Paper Crisis
This Thursday, the NT News, a local newspaper in Australia’s Northern Territory, printed an extra eight blank pages for readers to use in a pinch, as a way to mock the pointless toilet paper hoarding caused by the spread of the coronavirus. “Run out of loo paper? The NT News cares,” the front page of […]
Australian Town Struggles to Cope with Bat Invasion of Biblical Proportions
The town of Ingham, in Northern Queesnland, has reached “crisis point” after hundreds of thousands of fruit bats invaded the place last month. Things have gotten so bad that kids are afraid to go to school anymore, and rescue helicopters can’t land at the local hospital. Flying foxes, also known as fruit bats currently outnumber […]
Man Claims to Have Cooked Pork Roast Inside Car on Scorching Hot Day
A Western Australian man claims to have successfully cooked a whole pork roast by leaving it inside a car for about 10 hours on a very hot day. Although he conducted the experiment for fun, the man did warn people not to leave their kids or pets in their cars during the summer. Stu Pengelly, […]
Inventor Accused of Conning Farmers by Promising to Bring the Rain, But Not Explaining How
David Miles, an Australian inventor who has been peddling weather modification technology for almost 20 years, has been accused of preying on desperate farmers by charging up to $50,000 Australian dollars for delivering rain on demand without so much as explaining the technology behind his business. On the official Miles Research website, controversial inventor David […]
Vegan Woman Sues Neighbors for Barbecuing in Their Backyard
Cilla Carden, a vegan woman from Perth, in Australia, took her neighbors to court for “deliberately” allowing the smell of barbecued meat and fish to cross onto her property. The frustrated vegan has been in a dispute with both her neighbors since 2017, and has taken one of them court several times, unsuccessfully. After having […]
Australian Woman Covers Town in Graffiti in Bizarre Attempt to Contact Mystery Man
A 36-year-old Australian woman in Melbourne’s Frankston suburb was charged with criminal damage, wilful damage, among others, after covering several public spaces with graffiti messages to a certain “Chris”, the alleged father of her unborn baby. The alleged vandalism reportedly occurred between July 29 and 30 when graffiti started popping up in recreational areas around […]
Australian Brewery Launches Tea That Allegedly Tastes Like Beer
The makers of popular Australian beer Victoria Bitter have released a limited edition VB Tea that combines Ceylon black tea and Super Pride hops, the same variety of hops that gives Victoria Bitter its bitterness. The result, a cup of tea that tastes like beer. Or at least that’s what the people at Victoria Bitter […]
Tourists Won’t Stop Visiting Australia’s “Asbestos Town”
It’s considered the most contaminated site in the southern hemisphere and one of the most toxic in the world, but for some reason tourists just can’t stay away from the abandoned mining town of Wittenoom, deep in Western Australia’s remote Pilbara region. In its heyday, between 1930 and 1966, Wittenoom was home to around 20,000 […]
Christian Family Refuses to Pay Income Taxes Because It “Goes Against God’s Will”
A pair of Christian missionaries in Australia were recently ordered to pay over AUD$2 million to the Australian Taxation Office after failing to pay income tax because Australian taxation law was contrary to the law of Almighty God. Fanny Alida Beerepoot and her brother Rembertus Cornelis Beerepoot were brought in front of a judge at […]
Tourists Play with Tiny But Deadly Octopus With Enough Venom to Kill 26 People
Two British backpackers fishing in Australia can consider themselves lucky to be alive after stupidly playing with a tiny blue-ringed octopus, whose painless bite can kill up to 26 adults in minutes. A viral video posted on a Facebook group for backpackers shows daredevils Ross Saunders and Johnpaul Lennon dangling a blue-ringed octopus and letting […]