Politics

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...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull returned from his trip "Up North" over the weekend, with very little to talk about. "Richard Di Natale was right when he said God has forgotten about that awful, awful place - 1/3" the Prime Minister tweeted earlier today. "I mean, 2016 essentially ends at Gladstone, any further north than that and it's like I'm...

18 February, 2016. 16:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact TAKING INSPIRATION FROM FRENCH electronic dance music heavyweights Justice and Madeon, the Member for Longman brought the house down last night at Brisbane's infamous Met nightclub. It was a marathon set, consisting of nearly 40 original mixes over three hours. You'd be forgiven for think that the political journeyman's set was in protest...

15 January, 2016 10:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT In an interview with Radio National this morning, the leader of the Palmer United Party, Clive Palmer has revealed just how he is able to continue his day-to-day business and political endeavours while wearing a suit in the blazing Canberra heat. "It has been something I have had a lot of trial and error with,"...

12 February, 2016 13:45 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT While the National Party prepares for the reshuffle that will follow the retirement of current leader, Warren Truss - it seems the most likely successor, Barnaby Joyce is already settling into his new role as Deputy Prime Minister Of Australia. The Minister for New England was today shown around his new living quarters in the Prime Minister's harbour...

10 February, 2016 13:45 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT NSW Premier Mike Baird is under fire today for tweeting a series of offensive 'reviews' about the new Channel Nine production "Here Come The Habibs" - a comedy show that shines the light on race relations in Australia. In the barrage of tweets (which have since been deleted) Mike Baird uses the terms "Westie" and "Wog"...

9 January, 2016 15:45 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT NSW Premier Mike Baird and his close friend, NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione were by far among the most lively at a mid week Hillsong gathering in Baulkalm Hills last night, that's according to the onlookers who were able to sneak a photographs of them. It is believed Baird, who lists himself as as a devout Anglican...

5 February, 2015. 17:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact DESHAUN EMMANUEL DOESN'T UNDERSTAND how Australians aren't scared to go outside, as the country is home to a disproportional amount of venomous animals. That's despite him being raised in the US gun murder capital of Washington D.C. - where you're more likely to be shot to death than graduate from college. Speaking yesterday...

1 February, 2016 13:35 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The fugitive known as "Boo-boo" has today handed himself in to officers at Darwin's Border Force headquarters, after spending more than half of his life on the run. After arriving in Australia in late 2015 as a prenatal asylum seeker, Boo-Boo came to the attention of authorities are being officially documented in an Australian hospital, with...