Politics

23 June, 2016 11:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Australia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister For Agriculture Barnaby Joyce has been caught on video apparently smoking marijuana while on the campaign trail in New England last night. It is believed that while visiting a bowls club in northe-west NSW town of Guyra, the Deputy Prime Minister got a bit carried away during the State Of Origin...

22 June, 2016. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact UPHOLDING THE TEACHINGS of Christ and praising His moral standards on high has been at the core of Scott Morrison for his entire life. Hearing his political allies and opponents snigger behind his back as he strode through the corridors of Parliament House slowly chipped away at him. He tossed and turned every night...

20 June, 2016 11:00 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Not even 12 hours since its release, Malcolm Turnbull's new campaign ad is under fire for featuring a 'tradesman' speaking in Queen's English. The new campaign, which showcases a NIDA-trained thespian pretending to be a blue-collar 'battler' has been gone viral today under the hashtag #FakeTradie. Speaking to The Betoota Advocate this morning, Turnbull says he...

19 June, 2016 11:00 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Opposition leader, Bill Shorten has been spotted celebrating his unexpected win over Prime Minister Bill Shorten during Friday night's leaders debate. AAP cameras spotted the the 49-year-old politician blaring the popular trap record "Panda" by Brooklyn rapper Desiigner in his ALP campaign Range Rover yesterday afternoon while driving through Sydney. A witness describes the atmosphere as...

17 June, 2016 13:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Australian Labor Party has today declared they will 'get around' to 'discussing' viable alternatives to the detainment of war-weary asylum seeker children on Nauru, the moment they sort out this issue with those couple of cows in Vietnam. Labor has called for an independent office for animal welfare after video footage emerged of what...

17 June, 2016. 13:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact JUST DAYS AFTER THE Courier-Mail reported that the prime minister is a humanoid reptilian sent from the future to enslave us all, Malcolm Turnbull has laughed off the allegations - saying he's 'fully human' and he even farts in bed like normal people do. "The only positive thing that The Courier-Mail does is wrap...

14 June, 2016. 17:25 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact A ginger-headed woman dressed in a black skivvy and bright red blazer has today criticised our migrant population for not immediately assimilating into Australian society. Speaking to her nephew's iPhone camera today, The softly spoken megaphone of Australian racism, Pauline Hanson, has come to the defence of the thousands of other Australian's who dress like...

13 June, 2016. 11:45 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Local man, Byron Strut (36) says Australia needs to focus on finding homes for the droves of homeless people on our streets before accepting refugees and asylum seekers. Despite the fact that Mr Strut has not once mowed the entire lawn of his two-acre property in Brisbane's Northern Suburbs, he says Australia needs to...

10 June, 2016. 12:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER is back in the headlines again today after he told some mouthy hornbag down at a New England pub to "piss off" when a quiet discussion about mining got out of hand. Coming in on the burst, Joyce featured alongside political and personal rival Tony Windsor on ABC's Q&A programme...

6 June, 2016. 13:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact AFTER COMING FROM HUMBLE BEGINNINGS, one senior partner at a prestigious Sydney law firm promised his young self that he'd support his children and give them every leg up in life that he never had. That was until his 20-year-old son Matthew came home one afternoon with a series of exotic ear...