Politics

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT As the Australian Labor Party experience a lift in the polls in the third week of the federal election campaign, political analysts say the media can expect a lot more new faces fronting cameras in the next few weeks. Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese's Covid isolation has done wonders for the Labor brand over the last week, giving his lesser...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT As the moderate Liberal voter base continues bleeding out to Independent candidates with catastrophic momentum, inner-city MPs from Melbourne and Sydney are now tackling these growing challenges the only way they know how: by complaining incessantly and making shit up. This comes as the Morrison Government's 2022 re-lection campaign has been rocked by a dark horse that no one...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The PM has refused to disendorse a controversial Liberal party candidate for the Western Sydney electorate of Howard - after the backlash surrounding several comments that compared underpaid public health nurses to KKK lynch mobs. Helga Hershell, a handpicked candidate who was introduced to Scott Morrison by their mutual friend Hillsong Founder Brian Houston, is just one of many...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactPrime minister Scott Morrison has today made an uncharacteristically smart marketing move by taking a leaf out of Albo’s book and getting on the pop culture train, and uploading an image to his Twitter yesterday that looked eerily similar to a popular book cover every millennial woman was sure to recognise. The post in question, a stunning black and...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT With Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese still in isolation for the rest of the week, the Labor Party are doing their best to run a campaign without wheeling out any politicians who may remind the voters of the disastrous 2019 election. With Bill Shorten and Chris Bowen handcuffed to the desks in their electoral offices, only to be let free...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactAs news spread that opposition leader Anthony Albanese had tested positive for covid shortly after visiting the Byron Bay Bluesfest, his supporters have been assured that he’ll still continue to campaign from home with the help of his trusted technology. Posting that he was ‘feeling fine’, Albanese will have to stay in isolation for several days as part of...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactThough the debate between Prime Minister Scott Morrison and opposition leader Anthony Albanese was largely unknown to anyone other than Sky News enthusiasts, quotes from the showdown have quickly spread, and it appears that Morrison has yet again, put his foot in his mouth. This comes as quite the embarrassment as not only was he playing on his own...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACTPrime Minister Scotty From Marketing has backed his handpicked Liberal candidate, Katherine Deves, despite intense internal pressure for her to stand aside over her views on transgender people. Deves is running in the seat of Warringah, once the safest Liberal stronghold in the nation, until Tony Abbott was voted out for the Independent Zali Steggal in 2019. It is not...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactIn some heartwarming news, women’s sport is finally getting the media coverage it deserves, having received virtually no attention save for the odd few articles about Ash Barty. Now largely dominating the news, women’s sports corporations are said to be ‘beyond excited’ that their work is finally being acknowledged, having always played second fiddle to male athletes. This is...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT Prime Minister Scott Morrison has effectively abandoned his promise to establish a federal anti-corruption watchdog, citing his reason as Labor’s lack of support for his amendments - and how he would never win an election again if we all knew how corrupt the government really is. Although Scotty pledged to legislate a federal integrity body in parliament before the...