Politics

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Despite being 33-years-old with a both a high school and university education, local beverage sales manager, Rylie Beaton, still doesn't know what the senate is - or what it does. "I grew up in Queensland, mate" he says. "We don't really have a senate up there," Mr Beaton's interest was sparked when he realised that he had seen at least sixteen...

1 July, 2016. 13:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IF YOU THINK THERE'S ANY bad blood inside the Liberal Party, think again. After months of radio silence, Abbott Treasurer Joe Hockey has come in from the cold on the last day of campaigning and officially thrown his support behind Malcolm Turnbull. Tensions between Hockey and Turnbull have thawed recently as the North...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT In a new low for democracy, local daughter Amelia Standen (22) has essentially just doubled her 60-year-old father's voting power. After managing to avoid ingesting any form of political media during the last six weeks of intense campaigning by both major Australian political parties, Amelia has taken several moments to switch off" from social media and ask her conservative...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott has criticised his successor’s election campaign, saying the focus has strayed in the final days because Malcolm Turnbull hasn’t focused on the “big issues” ahead of the 2017 budget. Abbott believes Turnbull is too caught up in political populism to address the issues currently faced by old people in Sydney's Upper North Shore...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A 24-year-old LNP staffer has been stood down today after recklessly forgetting to pack hand sanitiser during the Prime Minister's visit to the middle-to-low-socio-economic suburbs of Eastern Brisbane. It is believed that, after touching the hands of hundreds of agreeable voters, Malcolm Turnbull was sent into a uncontrollable rage when the young staffer, Alf Luent (Bellevue Hill), informed...

28 June, 2016. 16:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IN THE LEAD UP TO THIS election, former prime minister Tony Abbott hired somebody under 35 who suggested he reconnect with young voters in his electorate through the meme medium. The first target in his crosshairs is challenger James Mathison, who he sees as a threat to his reelection because young people...

23 June, 2016 11:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Australia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister For Agriculture Barnaby Joyce has been caught on video apparently smoking marijuana while on the campaign trail in New England last night. It is believed that while visiting a bowls club in northe-west NSW town of Guyra, the Deputy Prime Minister got a bit carried away during the State Of Origin...

22 June, 2016. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact UPHOLDING THE TEACHINGS of Christ and praising His moral standards on high has been at the core of Scott Morrison for his entire life. Hearing his political allies and opponents snigger behind his back as he strode through the corridors of Parliament House slowly chipped away at him. He tossed and turned every night...

20 June, 2016 11:00 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Not even 12 hours since its release, Malcolm Turnbull's new campaign ad is under fire for featuring a 'tradesman' speaking in Queen's English. The new campaign, which showcases a NIDA-trained thespian pretending to be a blue-collar 'battler' has been gone viral today under the hashtag #FakeTradie. Speaking to The Betoota Advocate this morning, Turnbull says he...

19 June, 2016 11:00 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Opposition leader, Bill Shorten has been spotted celebrating his unexpected win over Prime Minister Bill Shorten during Friday night's leaders debate. AAP cameras spotted the the 49-year-old politician blaring the popular trap record "Panda" by Brooklyn rapper Desiigner in his ALP campaign Range Rover yesterday afternoon while driving through Sydney. A witness describes the atmosphere as...