In an embarrassing admission after days of speculation, Senator Pauline Hanson has finally acknowledged that her maiden speech was accidentally plagiarised from her own earlier maiden speech delivered in 1996. “I guess I’ve done a Melania,” she said, adding she had… Read More ›
In a move to address criticism of Australia’s immigration detention policies, the Department of Immigration and Border Protection announced today that all asylum seekers under the age of 18 would from now on be classified in all government documentation as “midgets” rather than… Read More ›
The Federal opposition leader, Bill Shorten, has revealed his strategy for getting Labor elected at the ALP annual conference over the weekend. The strategy is designed to wrong-foot the government by agreeing with everything they say and thereby confusing them… Read More ›
Tony Abbott admitted today that he made an error in calling for the banning of all Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) funding of wind farm energy projects. “Sorry,” he said, “I meant wind chimes, which I think everyone agrees are incredibly annoying and… Read More ›
The PM has launched a bold new strategyat ASIO headquarters aimed at combatting rising house prices by identifying some areas of Western Sydney and Melbourne as“terrorism recruitment zones”. “Properties in these areas are hot, hot, hot,” Tony Abbott said, pointing… Read More ›
The national broadcaster came under fire on Tuesday after allowing a man acquitted of terrorism to speak on its flagship panel comedy show Q&A. In one of his signature thought-bubble moments, Prime Minister Abbott mused that if the ABC were… Read More ›
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