No seat airfares part of Australian April Fool's Day larks

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SYDNEY (AFP) — Australian media indulged in some April Fool's Day humour on Tuesday, carrying hoax reports of Sydney residents' brains shrinking due to mortgage stress and ads for "no chair" airfares.

Sydney radio station 2UE reported that the Pope would conduct a special mass for homosexuals during his visit Down Under in July and that the Catholic Church may enter a float in next year's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper said that a new Japanese restaurant was controversially offering a 10-course whale tasting menu as an April 1 special.

And in Melbourne, the Herald-Sun tabloid said that cars would be ferried down the Yarra River during peak times to ease traffic congestion.

Meanwhile, the Australian Broadcasting...