Politics

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Members of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) protested pay and conditions yesterday across the major capital cities but out on the coast in Brisbane, many disenfranchised Labor voters were introduced to someone many of them hadn't taken notice of until then. "Who is this little freak and why is he making a lot of...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Liberal Party has been quick to claim the Country Liberal Party’s (CLP) success in the Northern Territory as a national rejection of Labor, despite it being a regional contest in a territory known for its electoral swings. Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton wasted no time in leveraging the NT result. "This is a clear...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The unsinkable Barnaby Joyce has been sent through the dip again by Nationals leader David Littleproud this morning after comments made over the weekend by the Member for New England put him in hot water - again. Speaking to a crowd of anti-windfarm demonstrators in the New South Wales Illawarra, Mr Joyce compared their vote...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has taken the extraordinary step today of not ruling out donations from the embattled Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) despite Channel Nine's newspaper division uncovering widespread criminal behaviour and corruption within the Victorian branch of Australia's most powerful union. Other state and territory leaders have said they will not...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Former Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce had quite a rude awakening overnight, after struggling through a 'rather painful experience.' Speaking to The Advocate on the way out the door at last night's Parliamentary Mid-Winter Ball, Mr Joyce said the shindig was probably one of the worst evenings of his political career. While he's been to plenty of Mid-Winter Balls in...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact An unremarkable local man has told The Advocate today that he might be old-fashioned but he prefers his Greens voters chained to bulldozers and doing funny things like refusing to come down from an old tree instead of what they seem to be doing now. Which is defacing war memorials, says Betoota Heights aged care...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT A senior Labor Party figure has today spoken to The Advocate about a major issue currently besetting the party. Speaking under the condition of anonymity, the 60-something white Anglo-Saxon career politician explained that he couldn't be more frustrated with "that Senator from WA." This comes after West Australian Labor Senator Fatima Payman was indefinitely suspended from the Labor...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Federal Government has this week softened the laws around the sale of disposable gadgets capable of burning nicotine-infused chemicals into a vapour, which is then inhaled into the lungs of addicts. Known as 'vapes' - the colourful mass manufactured pen-like plastic devices can be found hidden in millions of school backpacks and discarded in literally every waterway in...

MONTY BENFICA | Amusements | CONTACT Are the recent NSW Blues jersey sponsors the perfect illustration of the state's cultural downfall and descent into global irrelevance? Many Australians would argues yes. Known as the premier state, NSW has long held an air of superiority over the rest of the country as the beating heart of the nation.Boasting the oldest cities, largest population and most iconic...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Federal Opposition leader Peter Dutton has today unveiled his long-awaited Nuclear Power plan that nobody really asked for. The Coalition will pledge to build two nuclear plants between 2035 and 2037, with seven proposed location sites across five states to be completed by the 2050s. The details of this plan differ more than slightly when compared to the Coalition's earliest...