Politics

23 September, 2016. 16:00 WENDELL HUSSEY | Editor | CONTACT In a candid interview with the Advocate, One Nation Senator Malcom Roberts revealed that all of his polices stem from YouTube material. “Pauline and I have spent a lot of time together researching what they don’t want us, and you, to know!” Roberts said. "Last night we were up until 4:00 am learning the facts...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Despite decade-long campaigns by Triple J to promote the South Australian capital as a cool and exciting destination for young people, a recent visitor to the town has confirmed she will no longer be referring to Adelaide as 'Radelaide'. "I was always keen to visit Adelaide, but I've since realised it is not really that rad," says Laura...

20 September, 2016 15:35 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has been handed a life ban from Mooseheads Pub & Nightclub in Canberra after refusing to leave the venue upon being asked by several security guards. It is believed that at around 11:55pm last night, the 49-year-old former accountant was given his third and last warning for public nuisance, after dropping his pants and...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Federal MP, George Christensen has called for immigration to be restricted from countries where political unrest is prevalent. The Member for Dawson told Parliament that he believes many recent immigrants do not share Australian values, especially the three Muslims who live in his 14,945 square kilometre Electorate in Queensland's central coast. Despite his party leader, Malcolm Turnbull,...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The last remaining Australian breakfast TV audiences got to experience a new side to Pauline Hanson this morning, as Sunrise producers accidentally cut live to the One Nation senator several minutes earlier than she had expected. The live-cross, which has happened every Wednesday morning since the Martin Place siege, was supposed to be a chance for...

14 September, 2016. 12:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IN AN WISTFUL CALL TO arms, Malcolm Turnbull has asked his political friends and foes to put aside their differences for the greater good of the nation by asking them to clear a path for the same-sex marriage plebiscite today in Canberra. The prime minister's pleas come as Opposition leader Bill Shorten has allegedly instructed...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The latests announcements surrounding campaign funds for an Australian postal vote into the legality of same-sex marriage has put the executive staff members of Fairfax media in somewhat of a difficult position, it has been revealed. With the news that commercial media enterprises, such as television networks and newspapers, would be paid to carry advertisements for...

13 September, 2016. 12:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact HAVING A PERT DERRIERE IS seemingly compulsory in today's modern cruel world - and Canberra isn't immune to the growing trend of looking your best naked. Everybody from federal members of parliament to your run-of-the-mill junkie yelling in the street is feeling pressured to stay beautiful, with the likes of Opposition leader Bill Shorten and...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Rising Young Liberal member, Angus Hopscotch-Thorley (22) has today realised that the last five years he has spent wearing three-piece suits and taking university politics way too seriously still isn't enough for dad to love him. From the moment he finished his end of year exams at high school, Angus has attended fortnightly meetings for...

23 August, 2016. 15:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Tension has arisen between two of the most quotable members of the Australian Government's hard-right faction today, as former Prime Minister Tony Abbott vows to distance himself from the Federal Member for Dawson, George Christensen MP. The split has arisen after Mr Abbott's recent visit to the outskirts of Mackay, in what many political...