Politics

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Just days after she called on Malcolm Turnbull to slash funding to the Australian public broadcaster,  lawyers for One Nation leader Pauline Hanson are in court attempting to gag the ABC to prevent more secret recordings made by former party treasurer Ian Nelson becoming public. Senator Hanson has lodged an injunction in the NSW Supreme Court which seeks...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The recently-resigned Ipswich mayor Paul Pisasale was allegedly stopped by police at an interstate airport with $50,000 in a bag a couple months back, just weeks before he fronted a press conference in his pyjamas and dressing gown to announce his career change. Airport cops, with the assistance of dogs, allegedly pulled aside the Sicilian Stallion as he was...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Indigenous leader Noel Pearson need not worry about being called a liar or worse, a defamer, after he was alleged to have called Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull a "white cunt" in what one witness described as an offensive tirade outside the Prime Minister's office Pearson, a notoriously hot-tempered black academic, is also believed to have referred to...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has suggested Australians who are opting for "incredibly expensive" homes because they want to live within 100 kilometres of a central business district, and to work in careers that can only be sustained by living within 100 kilometres of a central business district. The Nationals leader told ABC RN Drive that those who...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Despite the fact that One Nation media adviser and former Logan City councillor Sean Black is facing multiple assault charges dating back to 2007, senator Malcolm Roberts' refuses to acknowledge any commonly accepted theory about his violent past until someone can show him the empirical evidence. The 39-year-old appeared calm in the dock during a brief hearing in the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Green Senator Richard Di Natale has today fronted the rural press club with controversial personal revelations. The Melbourne doctor - who has already bucked the trend of previous Greens party leaders by showing an interest in contact-sport, non-alternative medicine, and women - left reporters and colleagues in a state of shock after he admitted that he doesn't know...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Member for Grayndler, Anthony Albanese has been spotted deep in his electorate over the weekend to speak to a fellow Italian Rabbitohs supporter by the name of Tony Gambarino, on the day of his daughter's wedding Over a glass of red wine and some pasta, the former Deputy Prime Minister was encouraged to spill all about the current...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has given 7,500 asylum seekers living in Australia until October to learn English, get their heads around the highly-bureaucratic immigration department and lodge an application for protection in our country from whatever tyrannical governments or environmental disasters that threaten their lives elsewhere. If unable to do so, they will face deportation, as the former Brisbane...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Pauline Hanson has today revealed that she is waiting for the Australian media cycle to slow down on big words like 'superannuation' and 'structural reform' before she makes another dash at the headlines. The One Nation party leader has today revealed that although she does believe the mainstream media is avoiding her, she has actually made an effort...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has suggested normal human emotions have once again played a role in the blocking his plans for a safer Australia. After his bid to deport six refugees back to a country that wanted to kill them, failed. It is believed the refugees told the Federal Government they were at risk of execution in Iran Mr...