Politics

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Nationals are said to be dismayed with their spot in the Coalition Centipede heading into next year's election with the party leader David Littleproud telling The Advocate it won't work as it stands. At the moment, the Nationals are in fourth spot behind the Murdoch Family, Gina Rinehart and Peter Dutton. Eating the fourth-hand...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Opposition leader Peter Dutton brushed off recent and historic comparisons to a potato and unpopular fictional wizard Voldemort, calling out "leftie elites" for missing what he believes is the real story. "They think calling me a potato is clever, but it just shows how out of touch they are with half the people who...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Opposition leader Peter Dutton is fantasising today about appearing on a future episode of the Joe Rogan Experience after seeing the effect it had on disenfranchised young male voters in America. The podcast, the largest in the world, is very popular in Australia and holds a colossal amount of social capital with a large percentage...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Opposition leader Peter Dutton has defended asking Australia's richest person Gina Rinehart for free flights, explaining to The Advocate that people shouldn't be complaining because it didn't cost the taxpayer anything. Mr Dutton spoke to The Advocate briefly yesterday before making his way to a Liberal Party Halloween Party, where he was dressed as a...

MONTY BENFICA | Amusements | CONTACT Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has finally been exposed for what he is. A political elite. This comes after his secret 'other life' as a world leader who gets to live in a nice house and fly in business class was exposed by Australia's meticulous and unflinching media. Many journalists and political opponents have described it as 'his Hawaii moment. And they...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Senator David Pocock has weighed into the ongoing teacup storm over the Prime Minister's occasional Qantas upgrades, telling The Advocate that he's lucky that he doesn't need to fly home at the end of the week. In fact, the Senator explained that he often doesn't even need a shirt or even shoes. At the end of...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Queenslanders head to the polls for a state election this Saturday, with over 900,000 votes already cast by mail. What looked like a slam dunk for an unknown LNP, up against a Labor Government still maligned by the pandemic, has turned into anything but that. While the Murdoch Machine and the Opposition have tried their very...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT In case you haven't been watching the news, Federal Senator Lidia Thorpe is facing backlash for enjoying the freedom of speech in front of King Charles in Federal Parliament earlier this week. The 51-year-old Aboriginal woman is very good at making the Australian political class squirm. And she did just this on Monday by very publicly and very vocally...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact It seems like just yesterday that Scott Morrison was running the country with a trusty smile, a schooner of cold brew, and a penchant for well-timed disappearances. But the tides of political life move fast, and in 2024, the man once known as "ScoMo" has swapped the corridors of Parliament House for the shiny,...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT What looked like a dream Bradbury run to election victory for the Queensland LNP has blown up into a million pieces today. This comes as the Katter Party lobs a hand grenade into their campaign, just over two weeks before Queenslander's vote in the 2024 State Election. On Tuesday, the proudly Catholic voice for rural Australia, Katter's Australian Party (KAP),...