Politics

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Singer-songwriter Dan Sultan has clashed with Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie and Attorney-General George Brandis on Q&A over the best Kanye West pre-2013 album. Senator Brandis has been outspoken on the topic for many years, especially following the release of West's most divisive album yet, The Life Of Pablo. "Kanye released Yeezus around about the same time I was offered the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact American rock trio, The Goo Goo Dolls, have told reporters this afternoon that maverick New Englandese politician, Tony Windsor, served as inspiration for their 1998 smash hit 'Iris' - one of the biggest alternative rock staples of the 1990s. The band's frontman, John Rzeznik, the delivered the shocking bombshell today during an interview with our reporter in New...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Following the news that Abbott has admitted to drinking too much and sleeping through several votes in federal parliament in 2009, his party colleagues are encouraging him to use this defence on as much stuff as possible while its still valid. During an interview with Annabel Crabb in an upcoming episode of the ABC series The House, Abbott says he...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A local bloke, who was barely even a teenager when John Howard was voted out of power, has today regurgitated his conservative father's drunken golf rant that suggests the former Prime Minister was the greatest Australian leader in modern history. It is not yet known to the other punters at the Lord Kidman hotel why Hunter Bligh (22) feels...

STACEY FUNK | Local News | Contact The Deputy Prime Minister has arrived back in Canberra this afternoon with his local family solicitor to fight for his job in the High Court this week, The Advocate can reveal. Barnaby Joyce and his Tamworth-based lawyer, Gilroy Rhode, of Rhode & Sons Legal Tamworth, paid a visit to The High Court of Australia...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Maverick federal senator Nick Xenophon this afternoon placed a pint of not very good beer in the oven to heat it up, before indulging in a few saturday arvo drinks. "Oooh yeah. That looks good" said the Senator, while The Clash's greatest hits play in the background. "This looks good, yeah?" It is believed that Senator Xenophon picked up this trick...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT National security experts say One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson may undermine intelligence agency ASIO's work with Islamic communities by berating their religion in a media stunt. Hanson wore the full Islamic dress during Question Time on Thursday and called on the Federal Government to ban it. Her actions prompted an emotional rebuke from Attorney-General George Brandis who said Senator Hanson really...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Prime Minister Turnbull has last night relaunched into a debate usually reserved for that weird part of the year where everyone is looking for something to do after New Years Eve. Australia Day. It's a divisive issue, but one that we usually wait until January to jump back into arguing about and never resolving. However, with the citizenship of a...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Following the news that Nationals Leader, Barnaby Joyce is actually a citizen of a country that recognised gay marriage, conservative factions within both his party and the Liberals have urged him to renounce New Zealand's stance on gay marriage. It is believed that the same issue has been brought to light in the ranks of the Labor Party,...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Embattled Deputy Prime Minister, Barnaby Joyce is under fire today, as GetUp campaigners reveal leaked documents that suggest his support for the $21 billion Adani coal project in central Queensland’s Galilee Basin was purely so that he could cook a mean feed for all of his bros. Transcripts between the Member For New England and Indian coal magnate, Guatam Adani,...