Politics

8 July, 2016. 09:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Local underachiever, Ben Inglis, no longer has anyone to blame for his lack of life savings, job security, sobriety and education - it has been confirmed. The 31-year-old freelance sign-writer has for a long time been able to justify his lack of life stability with topical but obscure political jargon related to whichever particular...

7 July, 2016. 17:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact While Liberal MP Wyatt Roy appears to have lost out to his ALP opponent, Susan Lamb for the Longman electorate north of Brisbane, the 26-year-old is still holding out while more results from the weekend's election are being voted. In the meanwhile, the born and bred Caboolture boy has returned to his previous post, drinking...

7 July, 2016. 17:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact GEORGE W. BUSH AND TONY BLAIR were the ones who wanted to topple the Saddam Hussien regime, John Howard just happened to be there at the time. That's the message from Gen Y's most beloved former prime minister today, as he defended his involved in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. John Howard has...

7 July, 2016. 12:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact RIPPLES OF IMMORALITY ARE making their way through the Liberal Party this morning as controversial senator Cory Bernardi has been discovered playing the widely popular MMORPG, Second Life, as a transgender werewolf. Since 2012, the 46-year-old has been interacting with other users of the perverted video game as "Akiriana", a non-binary-yet-transgender-third-generation werewolf from...

4 July, 2016. 17:35 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Despite being a high-ranking ALP 'executioner' - Former Deputy Prime Minister and the Member For Grayndler, Anthony Albanese MP is secretly hoping that this current election will result in a majority LNP Government, it has been confirmed. After getting a taste of the power as Rudd's Deputy, 'Albo' was initially hoping that Prime Minister...

5 July, 18:01 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact ONE OF THE POSSIBLE OUTCOMES of this year's election is that we might be heading back to the polls sooner than we think. Australians are facing the prospect of having to cast two federal votes this year after last weekend's result has done nothing except make the whole situation worse. However, news that this might...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Former Senator Nick Xenophon has today been filmed smashing up several pokie machines in an Adelaide hotel, after reading recent poll data that shows him as the number one favourite to take out the South Australian election. Despite the fact that he had previously been in the Australian Senate for nine years and won a record vote...

3 July, 2016. 19:09 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact RETREATING TO HIS PARENTS HOME on Queensland's methamphetamine coast, former MP Wyatt Roy has locked himself in his bedroom to contemplate life while listening to Coldplay. Faced with having to re-enter society as a normal working human being, Roy says he's not quite ready. "How can Bob Katter have a 10% swing toward...

2 July, 2016. 17:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact AS THE SUN SETS ON another ordinary election day, one young Melbourne greens campaigner is facing the prospect of having to catch the tram home in Birkenstocks. Only problem is it's very cold. Kate Lewis said she had a bit of a brain snap when she pulled on her German riding boots this...

2 July, 2016. 13:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IT'S THE SAME VICIOUS CYCLE every three years, except this time, he gets the opportunity to vote below the line. Because real change comes from voting below the line on the senate ballot paper. That's the opinion of one local inner eastern Betoota man, who got up early to beat the crowds at...