Politics

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Prime Minister has reportedly looked over his two tax returns this year, one for Panama and one for Australia, and made double sure he didn't lodge the wrong one here. After being named in the so-called Paradise Papers last year, Malcolm Turnbull explained to The Advocate via an encrypted end-to-end messenger service that he...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Prime Minister has held his usual cabinet meeting this afternoon to decide which one of them will have to brave the ABC's Q&A programme next week. Malcolm Turnbull, aided by Michael McCormack (New Nationals Leader FYI), organised his team into a round-robin-style scissor-paper-rock tournament around 3pm this afternoon and declared that the loser of...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Former prime minister Tony Abbott has today issued a warning to the government, saying the Australians he has been talking to, who mostly live in the entitlement belt of North Shore Sydney, are “sick of politicians” and encouraged people who hate politicians to take it out on the bloke who took his job. Speaking to 2GB yesterday, Tony...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young says she has received support nationally and internationally, after declaring she has "had enough of men in using sexism" for intimidation. Hanson-Young says she feels as though Senator David Leyonhjelm was "slut shaming" when he told her to "stop shagging men" during a heated argument about violence against women. Senator Leyonhjelm could face a parliamentary...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Former Prime Mininsters Kevin Rudd, John Howard and Julia Gillard have met over a coffee today to congratulate themselves on not listening to the critics and persevering with the Northern Territory Intervention during their respective governments. "Fair shake of the sauce bottle" said Kevin Rudd. "This blanket approach to resolving a made up paedophile rinh was under a lot...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Labor leader Bill Shorten has this week been recognised for having the most defined forehead creases in the Australian political arena, after finally knocking off media personality and former forehead heavyweight Barrie Cassidy. Cassidy, a veteran Australian political journalist, as well as a radio and television host and presenter and commentator for the ABC, gracefully conceded defeated on Twitter...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT As we near the back-end of the Malcolm Turnbull's first term as an elected Prime Minister, the possibility of another federal election looms in the peripheral of all politicians, and some voters. After a chaotic twelve months of citizenship scandals, Chinese collusion and workplace affairs, each and every federal MP appears to be doing whatever they can to reaffirm...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT With the first cloud of steam of the election season rising to the surface, shadow infrastructure minister Anthony ‘Ablo’ Albanese visited St Brigid’s Catholic Church in Marrickville, to ask Father Erick for forgiveness for what he is about to do to his party leader, Bill Shorten. Witnesses report seeing Albanese enter the church for confession at approximately 11...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT In the face of One Nation's imminent collapse Pauline Hanson has told party members that she is considering going back to her roots, and abusing Asian immigrants. "I don't know. That seemed to work a few decades ago, and there's even more Asians here now. Maybe I should drop a few 'swamped by Asians' on Sunrise a couple times...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT After cutting all ties with his politician uncle during his second stint as Prime Minister, Australian singer-songwriter Xavier Rudd has been photographed making amends to their strained relationship over coffee. Speaking to the media from his surf town hub of Caloundra, after being chased out of Byron for punching a 63-year-old surfer in November last year, Xavier says his...