Politics

  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' -...

7 March, 2016. 11:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A photograph of Tony Abbott's newest tattoo has resulted in a buzz amongst political commentators, who suggest the vaguely tribal-themed body art in a clear indication of the former Prime Minister's suspected mid-life crisis. The photo, which was picked up by photographers working for Weetbix at a triatholon fundraiser over the weekend, joins...

5 March, 2016. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact FOR THE FIRST TIME, a leader of a major political party will march in the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. Opposition leader Bill Shorten confirmed earlier this month that he will stand shoulder to shoulder with the nation's QUILTBAG ("Queer/Questioning, Undecided, Intersex, Lesbian, Trans (Transgender/Transsexual), Bisexual, Asexual, Gay) community in a...

2 March, 2016. 16:45 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Last week, the Australian parliament passed new national laws today paving the way for the use of medicinal cannabis by people with painful and chronic illness. Amendments to the Narcotic Drugs Act permit both legally-grown cannabis for the manufacture of medicinal cannabis products in Australia. The changes, proposed earlier this month by the...

24 January, 2016 17:55 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT After a hard day at work, Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi is relieved to be at home with his wife Sinead Bernardi, the Bible, and his two young children who were conceived through a strict missionary program several months after his marriage. A big day in Parliament, and a media blitz right across the country, saw Senator Bernardi...