Politics

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A local man who has spent many a night curled up in his Betoota Heights beanbag arguing with people about the Indigenous Voice to Parliament has admitted to The Advocate he hasn't even read the piece of text he's arguing over. Small businessman Rollie O'Hara made the admission this today after telling our reporter that...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The sixth Intergenerational Report (IGR) has been released today by the Treasury, attempting to predict what is going to happen in this country over the next 40 years. The idea is to outline the many challenges that the future holds, as well as a roadmap for how to potentially avoid disaster later down the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Shadow Minister for Veterans Affairs Barnaby Joyce has updated his register of interests to reflect that he and manager Scooter Braun have parted ways. Braun is one of the most influential contemporary music managers and has recently lost other high profile clients Ariana Grande and Demi Lovato. Mr Joyce's departure is the latest to rock...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The dregs of the once all-powerful Liberal Party has made it known this week that they plan to drop everything and focus all of their resources and manpower towards ensuring the upcoming referendum for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament is unsuccessful. While the party continues to limp on in the wake of the 2022 federal election bloodbath, and it...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The alternate Prime Minister Peter Dutton appeared on the ABC's Kitchen Cabinet last night and it's upset a lot of people who think someone that slightly less than half the country will vote for at the next election deserves no air time on the national broadcaster. So much so that host Annabel Crabb has thrown...

RORY SALAZAR | Finance | ContactA recent poll has revealed that Victorian Premier Dan Andrews could be caught poisoning dogs for fun in Fitzroy Gardens and still be the preferred premier over any nut-job from the Victorian Liberals. Andrews would not even have to be sneaky about it. He could poison them openly, in broad daylight and in front of young families with small...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The only people whose lives may be slightly inconvenienced by a successful referendum result have today meet in secrecy to discuss the next phase of their plans to derail the Indigenous Voice. Mining billionaires and private prison bosses, whose tax-dodging multinational corporations depend on the lack of communication between politicians and Aboriginal community leaders, have been working tirelessly to...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT In case you haven't been across the news lately, Australia's media pundits and political commentators are mortified by the Albanese Government's decision to hold a national referendum over whether or not we should include Aboriginal people in the constitution. There is also a great deal of skepticism surrounding the idea of providing Aboriginal community leaders with a platform to...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison has again today begun preparations for the possibility of a life outside of the warm tax-payer funded hug of Federal Politics. After destroying the Liberal Party and losing twenty seats in the 2022 Federal Election, many assumed Scott Morrison would have fucked off by now and found work in the private sector, or on...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The most unemployable man in Australian public life, former Prime Minister Scott Morrison, has today realised he must upskill or perish. Not because he needs to find himself a new corporate job and dignify the party he destroyed by resigning from Parliament's back bench, where he sits every day as a constant reminder to both his colleagues and the...