Politics

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT NBN Co chief executive Bill Morrow has identified online gamers as a major cause of congestion on the network, stating if it wasn't for them using the internet, the internet wouldn't be as slow. Morrow says that NBN Co is "evaluating" slowing down or limiting downloads for users during peak times in order to overcome these fixed wireless congestion...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT In a shocking twist, Barnaby Joyce's political career is still in tatters, even after telling the entire country the intricate details behind a sexual affair with a much younger staffer who he ended up impregnating, on prime time television. In a tell-all interview that literally everyone told him was a bad idea, Former Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT In the wake of the news that former Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has reportedly accepted at $150,000 payment for a tell-all story about his new family with Channel 7, it can be today revealed that the ABC's Four Corners had also made a bid for the rights. Barnaby Joyce and his new partner, Vikki Campion, have reportedly sold the...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon has announced today that she will retire in the next few months to focus on her Essential Oil distillation business. The controversial senator from NSW whose been in the role for seven years now spoke to our reporters today about her reasons for stepping aside and allowing Mehreen Faruqi to fill the vacant Senate spot. “Well,...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | Contact Andrew Hastie, the Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security has had to take an angry phone call from Sam Dastyari this morning after he leveled allegations of bribery and foreign influence at a Chinese National yesterday. Andrew Hastie used parliamentary privilege to claim businessman Chau Chak Wing funded the bribery of former president of the UN General Assembly John Ashe,...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT Local youth Taylor McGregor (25) penned a venomous Facebook status today stating ‘this government is bloody hopeless’ while he made his way home on foot, as his learner’s license to expired over a year ago. With aspirations to one day get his provisional license and make a run at a diploma, McGregor states the inflated...

Bill Shorten has had to interrupt reporters at a press conference this afternoon in an awkward state of affairs. The Opposition Leader was talking about how slightly different his approach to the budget would have been in an address to a room of reporters from some of the major media outlets, as well as our own Channel Country publication. However, after...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A corporate silverfox who thinks that the concept of public housing is just a result of learned helplessness says he'd like to know where the money is going to come from to increase welfare payments by $50 a week. William Hugosmyth-Willingtley (55) says he's all for a fair go, but some people are just leeches. "Mate, it's all good...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Bad news for Apple fans, a recent study by the CSIRO has concluded that there's no redeemable benefit of owning an Apple Watch. The results of the year-long research project were published this morning to mild outrage among local gadget enthusiasts and tech-savvy early adopters. Detailing the 'cool factor' as well as the practicality of the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Prime Minister has told the media this morning that he admits failures were made on his government's part in delaying the Royal Commission into the banking industry. In addition to that, Malcolm Turnbull also conceded and defending his judgement - saying he had to give the banks time to prepare for the investigation. "Mistakes were made and I accept...