The federal government will cease funding all major football codes, including “junior footy clinics”, in a major shake-up of sports funding designed to save $379 billion in the budget over four years. Mr Pyne says the new arrangements will be… Read More ›
Attorney-General George Brandis has today announced that film star Johnny Depp’s dogs will put down, alongside the Australian arts industry following Tuesday night’s budget which re-allocated arts funding to being allocated as per the Art’s Minister’s own discretion. The… Read More ›
Network Seven presenter Samantha Armytage has been recruited to front a new advertising campaign for the federal government’s Intergenerational Report. Armytage replaces Dr Karl Kruszelnicki as the face of the campaign following Kruszelnicki’s decision to actually read the report. In… Read More ›
Greens Senator Scott Ludlam has expressed “deep surprise and disappointment” over the decision of Opposition leader Bill Shorten to support a mandatory data retention scheme the kind of which was proposed by the Gillard Labor government in 2012. In a… Read More ›
Attorney-General and book shelf aficionado George Brandis opened up his email account today and was greeted with 48,598 unread emails. The sudden influx of emails combined with the government’s rise in the opinion polls has Brandis bursting with pride over his… Read More ›
A motion to express the Senate’s displeasure with the Attorney-General George Brandis’s treatment of Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs using head movements has passed the Senate 35-32. The motion was brought to the Senate floor by Labor Senator Penny… Read More ›
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