The Chaser crowdfunds its newspaper, will be transparent on any child labour used

After a decade-long hiatus The Chaser Quarterly is set to return – if the comedy troupe can raise the $50,000 through crowd funding to make it happen.

Why would they do this you say? Their answer: “The Chaser Quarterly addresses the key problem of our time: namely – there is not enough content in this world.”

But having fallen into the trap of not making any money on the 99 editions which were previously published between 1999 and 2005 the team have decided to take a leaf out of a the books of a few multinational corporations, and make use of a few tax minimisation schemes “so that we’re not dragged down by the onerous burden of paying tax to fund Australia’s hospitals, schools and roads”.

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