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Thoughts On Malcolm Turnbull’s New Job

1:23PM Jess McGuire | When the team from Sunrise asked me to contribute my thoughts regarding Malcolm Turnbull’s new role as the leader of the Liberal Party for their website, I wish I could say I was surprised. But to be honest, I’ve always envisioned myself as a political pundit, so after I finished sending Laurie Oakes a menacing email telling him to watch his goddamn back, I settled down and wrote some stupid responses to the questions I was given. If you would like to read these thoughts, then go to the Sunrise website and take a look. Also, “media commentator and political bandit” is going straight onto my business card. And by business card, I obviously mean the About Me section on my Facebook page. MORE: Turnbully? Turncoat? How Defamer sees Turnbull More »

Who Is Busty St Clair?

10:08AM Jess McGuire | It is the question on everybody’s lips, to be sure. Now, this’ll be confusing to explain, especially when we’re having to work with weird tenses and speaking in the third person and all that jazz, but basically Busty St Clair is not Defamer Australia (the individual… erm, this is already doing our head in) so people can cease emailing and questioning whether or not we’ve gone completely mental and adopted a persona, god bless them. Busty St Clair has joined the Defamer Australia team and will be contributing her unique take on things on a daily basis. She’s also an “industry” insider – it doesn’t take a genius to work out she’s using a nomme de plume – and we’re happy to have her on board and plan on pumping her for all the gossip we can. In the metaphorical well sense, not in a horizontal sexy way, although if that’s what it takes… Welcome, Busty! If you’re confused about who is writing what, we’ve added pretty by-lines. Now let’s get cracking with the day’s business, shall we? More »

Hands Up If You Want To Work For Defamer Australia?

1:34PM Jess McGuire | Now put those hands down, you silly buggers, and instead focus your digital energies on banging out a fucking dazzling resume and cover letter, because Allure Media is hiring, yo! Here’s the official spiel. Administration and Editorial Assistant Allure Media is in the business of building great websites. Our gossip site Defamer and gadget guide Gizmodo are the first of many, and we’re looking for an administrative and editorial assistant to join us for what’s sure to be a wild ride. The role is a unique blend: two-thirds administration and sales support, one-third editorial. The successful applicant will capably respond to reader and advertiser enquiries, manage advertising campaigns, maintain financial records and produce regular reports. The right candidate will also have an opportunity to write for our websites, producing regular features and scouring the web for the juiciest news. To apply for this Sydney-based role, send your resume with a covering letter to jobs@alluremedia.com.au. Include two short posts in the style of either Defamer or Gizmodo. Unofficially, you will spend most of your day bouncing emails containing vaguely entertaining YouTube links and completely libelous and false gossip back and forth with us, regularly spend at least half an hour giggling on the phone about our respective love lives, and eventually we will take you out, get you drunk, and we’ll all take saucy photos of each other. FUN! More »

Defamer Australia Wants YOU!

9:11AM Jess McGuire | That’s right, dear viewers. We’ve got a few blog-segment ideas we’re planning on launching over the next couple of weeks and we’re going to need your contributions in order to develop into the swarthy, likeable, deeply fascinating site we know we could be, if only you opened your hearts and minds to us. Here are just three things you’re welcome – nay, encouraged! – to participate in. Celebrity Check-OutOur American siblings Defamer and Gawker have, respectively, their Hollywood PrivacyWatch and Gawker Stalker features. Defamer Australia would also dearly love to know just who the hell you’ve caught sauntering about town. Spotted Russell Crowe pushing his little chubber Charlie around the streets of Woolloomooloo? Did Blake from Home & Away kick you out of Pontoon at closing time? Has that chick from Neighbours – you know, what’s her name… the one who sexed up Connor – poured you a beer at yer local? Let us know. There is of course another, far more interesting way of approaching a segment called “Celebrity Check-Out” – and the idea actually came from someone famous! Here’s the direct quote from our friendly entertainment industry inhabiting chum’s helpfully suggestive email… Um, I think ‘celebrity check-out’ might keep us all on our toes, as we test our photographic memories to recite every item in (insert name)’s grocery/pharmacy/sexmart purchase. Brilliant. If you happen to stumble across someone remotely famous purchasing items, please do your damnedest to memorise their shopping list and let us know. Once we served The Freak from Prisoner: Cell Block H whilst working as a check out chick at Franklins. She bought loads of health food and a packet of Benson & Hedges Ultra Mild, and wrote her shopping list on the back of a photocopy of a glowing review of her latest play. FACT. Email tips@defamer.com.au and put Celebrity Check-Out as the subject title and you’ll soon see the fruits of your disconcerting lingering beside the well-known on the internerd. YouTube Clip ‘O’ The DayThis one’s fairly self explanatory, isn’t it? Find something quite brilliant on YouTube (or any other clip site for that matter, we only say ‘YouTube’ cos it sounds punchy)? Then we insist you give us the heads up. Even if you think we would have already stumbled upon it, you must send us a link anyway. We have our finger on the pulse of pop culture and web obsessions far less than you’d think BUT DON’T TELL OUR EMPLOYER. Email tips@defamer.com.au and put Clip Of The Day as your subject title. Voila! Wednesday Gig GuideWe’d like to give you heads up about various gigs, shows and other such malarky – but unfortunately, we’re unable to spend one day per week in each of this fine country’s states and territories investigating the local “scene”. Which means if there’s a killer night out on the verge of happening in your town, let us know so we can totally pimp it out and pretend we know exactly what’s going on at any point in time across this wide brown land. Make sense? Excellent. We’ll collect the goings on you report and on a Wednesdays we’ll publish a state by state, territory by territory run down of what we think sounds the most like social top choice beef for the coming week. ANYTHING ELSE?While we’re finding our feet during these incredibly exciting and formative early days, any other suggestions you have are hungrily craved by Defamer Australia. Don’t hesitate to send us an email if you think of anything we should take a look at and/or start up on the site. And just in case you still haven’t picked up on Defamer Australia’s contact email address? Alright, one more time – tips@defamer.com.au. More »

Welcome to Defamer Australia

12:00PM Jess McGuire | Hello, attractive and charming new friend! You’ve arrived at the brand spanking new online clubhouse of the brand spanking new blog Defamer Australia. We’re gonna be kicking things off in what could be an excruciating and painful what will no doubt be a thrilling and completely gripping way – live blogging the launch of Big Brother’s 2007 season! Our passionate coverage and penetrating (teehee!) insights into this incredibly important cultural event will no doubt win the hearts of a nation, and… well, we don’t want to count our chickens before we’ve had time to skin a cat in several new and interesting ways and all that jazz, but let’s just say that by the time 2008 rolls by, we don’t expect Jack Marx to be the only blogger to have won a Walkley. Ho, ho! In the meantime, make yourself at home. Read the FAQs, peruse the About page – hell, shoot the shit with us via the magic of email, if you like! And we’ll hook up a little bit later tonight. Wear something revealing, kthxbye. More »