Politics

JOSEPH WALKER | Federal Politics | CONTACT In today’s announcement of the latest edition of Australia’s cabinet, Peter Dutton was once again given a place amongst Australia’s most influential public servants. “I thought I’d test myself as a leader,” Scott Morrison said in a statement today. “In my first real act as Prime Minister, I have made absolutely sure that the instability of our government is...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT The aspirational former Home Affairs Minister has retreated back into the shadows of the Liberal Party after a crushing defeat yesterday. The ex Queensland cop is licking his wounds after a demoralising loss in yesterday's leadership spill. The Dark Lord of Nauru had the top job pinched from under his nose by the Scott Morrison after many long months of...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT The nation of Australia has extended a polite request to the Former Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton today. Australia as a collective country has asked the highway cop from the Sunshine Coast to 'please, go home, cunt.' The request comes after Peter Dutton, and his conservative backbench allies and media backers have held the country to ransom over the last...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT After another morning of headlines and speculation about who will be the country's Prime Minister at the end of the day, the nation of Australia has asked if our politicians could do some actual work. The calls come after Peter Dutton came out this morning to request another leadership spill, one which Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has so...

Louis Burke | Culture | Contact HR manager Cindy Belengoff (30) had a fleeting trip into the world of ‘what-if’ today as a thumbtack on the sole of her shoe provided her with a rare glimpse into the life of a tap dancer. On her lunch break, Belengoff was heading to her usual cafe to order her usual no flavour, low-calorie...

Louis Burke | Culture | Contact In what some are calling the most desperate move in politics since Harold Holt tried to win the surfie vote, opposition leader Bill Shorten has announced he is now a ‘Flat-Earther’ in an unprecedented move to build his own credibility. Flat-Earthers are a fringe group of people who in the face of hundreds of years...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Two of the nation's 'hardest-done-by' backbenchers have shared a candid phone call this morning where they both agreed that Phase 1 of Operation Bin Turnbull was complete. Moments after getting his breath back from cycling up Parliment Hill this morning, Tony Abbott phoned Barnaby Joyce, who was also just getting his breath back after finishing...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Moments after the Prime Minister and the Minister for Energy And Environment, Josh Frydenberg, hosted a press conference in Canberra this morning, Malcolm Turnbull was seen doing cartwheels down Parliament Hill while Tony Abbott and Peter Dutton looked on. "Do a somersault this time!" yelled Dutton as a breathless Prime Minister trudged back up the hill. Earlier...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT In the face of what looks like a very real threat to his leadership, Malcolm Turnbull has today announced plans of removing Paris climate change targets from the National Energy Guarantee in his second policy reset in four days. The revised scheme will not stipulate a 26 per cent cut to greenhouse gas emissions in either legislation or regulation...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A pre-teen asylum seeker trapped behind bars on Nauru has applauded his new surrogate nation's politicians this week. 9-year-old Syrian boy Asghar Al-Khatib, whose family is seeking asylum in Australia has spent majority of his formative years inside the Australian government's Pacific Island detention centre, a semi-privatised institution that has since become the closest thing the stateless war-weary youngster...