Politics

31 March, 2016. 10:15 BRUCE BACHETTO | Traffic | CONTACT Australia's exotic day spa industry is expected to see a boom in business heading into the new financial year, with the government's announcement that "special massages" will now be tax deductible. The federal treasurer, Scott Morrison, announced the changes last week, stating that 'Special Massage' will be included in a tax deductible health services...

31 March, 2016. 16:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact OPPOSITION LEADER BILL SHORTEN revealed he had to shimmy through raw sewerage to attend a press conference this morning in Canberra. Speaking from a courtyard within Parliament House, the 48-year-old former trade unionist said the reason why he hasn't announced alternative policy or even said anything publically this year is because he needed time...

28 March, 2016. 14:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A CASE OF NIGHT TERRORS has left doctors scratching their heads after a local man still wakes up screaming at all hours of the night after six months of unsuccessful treatments. It's a case that's got the attention of medical professionals around the country. Community man Anthony Abbott has suffered from night terrors...

21 March, 2016. 17:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact MINOR PARTY STAFFERS HAVE been observed cleaning windscreens at traffic lights around Canberra today as the possibility of a double dissolution election becomes greater. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced he will bring the budget forward a few days, sparking wild rumours that a double dissolution election is almost certain to take...

  CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Only a few months after taking part in an alleged "pub brawl" in the Lyceum hotel in Longreach, Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has declared that anyone who drinks dark rum and doesn't fight, can't fight. On the tenth of May, Mr Joyce refuted claims that he had been “run out of town” – despite the...

15 March, 2016. 13:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THE LOGAN IKEA SUPERSTORE is in lockdown after federal politician Clive Palmer wandered off from his minders, sparking a desperate search by workers and his own staff. Police and emergency crews have arrived and ushered shoppers out while they began cordoning off the area. Palmer's staff are concerned he may encounter a member while...

10 March, 2016. 13:04 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact AMERICAN ACTOR JOHNNY DEPP announced today that he plans to back Tony Windsor's return to politics and his journey to defeat Barnaby Joyce in this year's federal election. Speaking from his California home, the 52-year-old said he wishes Windsor the best of luck and he's behind him all the way to Canberra. "You...

10 March, 2016. 10:45 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT This morning it was announced that Tony Windsor will go head to head against the Deputy Prime Minister to win back his old seat of New England. This ends months of speculation about a political comeback to parliament for the independent politician. Meanwhile, in an attempt to keep his supporters in the National Party heartland...

9 March, 2016. 11:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IN THE SAME WEEK THAT Clive Palmer pledged to save Queensland Nickel from collapse, the 61-year-old exposed a part of himself that's seldom seen in his world of high finance and politics - a love of classic cinema. Nodding to early masterpieces such as the 1936 landmark film Reefer Madness, a tale...

8 March, 2016. 11:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Minister for Women Michaelia Cash's stubborn refusal to identify as a woman has been met with criticisms, after the heterosexual female declared she is not interested in carrying labels on last night's episode of ABC Q&A. During the program, Michaelia Cash also refused to associate herself with the tag of 'feminist' -...