Politics

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Opposition leader Peter Dutton is starting to think he might've bitten off more than he chew this week, after hard-launching his new Jew-Friendly rebrand in the Teal seats down south. As a multimillionaire property developer from North Brisbane's mortgage belt, the most diverse voters that Dutton has previously had to engage with over his 20 years in Federal Politics...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers has this week confirmed that his government has overseen the first back-to-back federal budget surplus in over 15 years. This news brings with it hope that the end might be in sight for the cruel economic conditions that Australians have been white-knuckling through. It also comes as a surprise given the many billions of dollars our...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The future of the world's biggest media empire is being fought over a Nevada courtroom this week, as Rupert Murdoch's family contest the 93-year-old media titan's current plans for succession. In the current version of the trust, all three Murdoch heirs - James, Elisabeth and Prudence - were to inherit as much control of the businesses as the oldest...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Members of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) protested pay and conditions yesterday across the major capital cities but out on the coast in Brisbane, many disenfranchised Labor voters were introduced to someone many of them hadn't taken notice of until then. "Who is this little freak and why is he making a lot of...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Liberal Party has been quick to claim the Country Liberal Party’s (CLP) success in the Northern Territory as a national rejection of Labor, despite it being a regional contest in a territory known for its electoral swings. Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton wasted no time in leveraging the NT result. "This is a clear...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The unsinkable Barnaby Joyce has been sent through the dip again by Nationals leader David Littleproud this morning after comments made over the weekend by the Member for New England put him in hot water - again. Speaking to a crowd of anti-windfarm demonstrators in the New South Wales Illawarra, Mr Joyce compared their vote...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has taken the extraordinary step today of not ruling out donations from the embattled Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) despite Channel Nine's newspaper division uncovering widespread criminal behaviour and corruption within the Victorian branch of Australia's most powerful union. Other state and territory leaders have said they will not...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Former Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce had quite a rude awakening overnight, after struggling through a 'rather painful experience.' Speaking to The Advocate on the way out the door at last night's Parliamentary Mid-Winter Ball, Mr Joyce said the shindig was probably one of the worst evenings of his political career. While he's been to plenty of Mid-Winter Balls in...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact An unremarkable local man has told The Advocate today that he might be old-fashioned but he prefers his Greens voters chained to bulldozers and doing funny things like refusing to come down from an old tree instead of what they seem to be doing now. Which is defacing war memorials, says Betoota Heights aged care...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT A senior Labor Party figure has today spoken to The Advocate about a major issue currently besetting the party. Speaking under the condition of anonymity, the 60-something white Anglo-Saxon career politician explained that he couldn't be more frustrated with "that Senator from WA." This comes after West Australian Labor Senator Fatima Payman was indefinitely suspended from the Labor...