Politics

8 May, 2016 10:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has today visited the Governor-General Peter Cosgrove to ask for a double-dissolution election. He then launched the nation’s longest election campaign since the 1960s, culminating with a July 2 poll. With the current Government's pre-election promises currently under the spotlight, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says the path is clear for the "greatest years...

29 April, 2016. 13:23 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact AS THE CLASSIC JOKE would allude to, how do you know if somebody is a member of Royal Sydney Golf Club? They'll tell you. Now a 69-year-old disabled transgender Jewish Aboriginal woman can tell everybody who'll listen that she's become the first of her background to become a part of the exclusive organisation. Baayami Noccabrara...

28 April, 2016. 13:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact MALCOLM TURNBULL SPENT THIS morning sitting back in his chair, tossing a Turf King as close to the ceiling as possible. He does this every time Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton fuck up. More and more red scuff marks have appeared on the roof of his Canberra office recently, which is indicative of the...

19 April, 2016. 15:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT In what appears to be one last snub of his nose to Australian quarantine laws, new footage has today revealed that Johnny Depp wasn't actually that sincere during his official apology to Australia yesterday afternoon. A photo, tweeted by the actor, at 11:30pm last night - shows his right hand performing a...

14 April, 2016. 15:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact NOW THAT MALCOLM TURNBULL HAS left the country, Barnaby Joyce and his friends from The Nationals have the keys to the kingdom - and they've thrown the biggest party at The Lodge since John Howard's infamous 17-day bender after Australia won the 1999 Cricket World Cup. Early this morning, a Tooheys Brewery...

10 April, 2016. 09:45 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Senior Constable Steve Giles is retiring today after 47 years as a New South Wales police officer. In that time, he estimates he has arrested more than 10,000 people. But one arrest stands out: Mike Baird. “It was Easter time at 1989. I was stationed in Kings Cross and we got a...

31 March, 2016. 10:15 BRUCE BACHETTO | Traffic | CONTACT Australia's exotic day spa industry is expected to see a boom in business heading into the new financial year, with the government's announcement that "special massages" will now be tax deductible. The federal treasurer, Scott Morrison, announced the changes last week, stating that 'Special Massage' will be included in a tax deductible health services...

31 March, 2016. 16:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact OPPOSITION LEADER BILL SHORTEN revealed he had to shimmy through raw sewerage to attend a press conference this morning in Canberra. Speaking from a courtyard within Parliament House, the 48-year-old former trade unionist said the reason why he hasn't announced alternative policy or even said anything publically this year is because he needed time...

28 March, 2016. 14:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A CASE OF NIGHT TERRORS has left doctors scratching their heads after a local man still wakes up screaming at all hours of the night after six months of unsuccessful treatments. It's a case that's got the attention of medical professionals around the country. Community man Anthony Abbott has suffered from night terrors...

21 March, 2016. 17:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact MINOR PARTY STAFFERS HAVE been observed cleaning windscreens at traffic lights around Canberra today as the possibility of a double dissolution election becomes greater. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced he will bring the budget forward a few days, sparking wild rumours that a double dissolution election is almost certain to take...