Politics

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT What will back the rendered brick walls of suburban Australian McMansions be wearing next year? The shade of the near-future is a muted neutral-white, according to iconic paint company Dulux. The company has declared that the newest colour identified by their scientists is known as Bill ShortenTM, a name meant to evoke a wider theme: the concept of carrying...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT In a bizarre coincidence, Australia's staunchest defenders of free speech are also the most vulnerable to mean tweets from gay activists, who they say are overly aggressive, intolerable and mean. The grown men, most of who usually only make headlines in a slow news cycle with their comments about repealing section 18c from the racial discrimination act which makes...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT Tony Abbott has caused controversy again today after an explosive rant at the earth's weather systems. The former Prime Minister who last week criticised the NRL for allowing the US rapper Macklemore to play his 2nd highest rating song at the Grand Final because he said it promoted the “Yes” campaign, has caused a stir again today After a slight rainbow...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT As one of two federal politicians who probably won't be working again this term due to citizenship issues, former Greens Senator Scott Ludlam says he's really loving the time off. "It's mad" he says, while tying a bandana over his recently-bleached yellow hair. "I've been needing this for a while, hey. Last year was a crazy one" The Commonwealth will...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A prominent Gen-Y social commentator has been having a particularly hard time trying to harness the same audiences as Alan Jones and Steve Price, while also trying to avoid being a class and generation traitor. Paul 'The Boomer Liason' Murray has for many years now made a career broadcasting hot button issues that really don't affect anyone from...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A couple of lavender-scented local blokes say that the Church should actually consider how many people are being forced to sin because they aren't allowed to get married. The inner-Betoota bookshop owners say that they have tried their best to live a life in accordance with the Lord's word, but eventually they got sick of waiting for equal rights...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Coming just a day after banning single-use plastic bags, the Premier of Queensland has told the media this afternoon that the state government will establish a bag buyback scheme to start in 2018. Annastacia Palaszczuk spoke to reporters briefly today after he the Queensland parliament voted to ban the environmental hazard. "Today is a red-letter day for...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The undeniably rise of road accidents in small town's that don't have any gay people can be directly attributed to the smug and irrational arguments for gay marriage, it has been confirmed. After already making headlines for yesterday's column in the Daily Telegraph which linked Sydney City’s strong support for the YES campaign, and a Court inquest into suicides in...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Singer-songwriter Dan Sultan has clashed with Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie and Attorney-General George Brandis on Q&A over the best Kanye West pre-2013 album. Senator Brandis has been outspoken on the topic for many years, especially following the release of West's most divisive album yet, The Life Of Pablo. "Kanye released Yeezus around about the same time I was offered the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact American rock trio, The Goo Goo Dolls, have told reporters this afternoon that maverick New Englandese politician, Tony Windsor, served as inspiration for their 1998 smash hit 'Iris' - one of the biggest alternative rock staples of the 1990s. The band's frontman, John Rzeznik, the delivered the shocking bombshell today during an interview with our reporter in New...