WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT Foreign Minister Penny Wong has today ticked off a big piece of policy, ensuring that all the key details of the Prime Minister’s Bux are locked in. With the Opposition kicking up a stink about Former Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating meeting with the Chinese Foreign Minister,
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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A local grazier has cast his eye over a mob of wethers this morning and seen nothing but past failures and bad luck staring back at him. “Look at these fucken things,” he said to himself. “Flyblown cunnsathings.” Darcy Rutlock, of the ‘Astoria’ Rutlock’s
CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A semi-retired white goods retailer who lives in a 6 bedroom house with nobody but his stay-at-home second wife and the occasional daughter who is visiting from London, has today finally conceded that maybe the nation’s housing market is geared against young Australians. “I don’t know how anyone
ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Popular TV show “Old People’s Home For Media Grads” has been renewed for another season by Sky amid pressure from the network’s executives to take steps to prevent the show’s stars from regularly defaming people. Former Speaker of the House Bronwyn Bishop is one
A 12-week-old foetus has become Australia’s youngest landlord after it bought a 4-bedroom investment property in Melbourne. The proud parents say the foetus was able to buy the property by pooling pocket money, savings from odd jobs and a $850,000 contribution from them. “We want to teach our children that,
The Queensland Government (for now) has announced that the 2032 Olympic opening ceremony will be held at the Indooroopily Macca’s outdoor playground. The news comes after the billion dollar plan to rebuild the Gabba has been scrapped. ”The 2032 Brisbane Olympics will really get the World talking,” said a Government
ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A well-educated young worker from our town’s cosmopolitan French Quarter has grown tired of taking part in our society and has joined the thousands of other people in their position and set their sights abroad. “I can’t see myself getting ahead here,” they told
WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT Russia’s Opposition Leader Nikolai Kharitonov is today swallowing a bitter sweet pill. While made bitter because he lost the Russian election in a landslide, the pill is sweetened by the wonderful fact that it isn’t poisoned with some radioactive substance. Put simply, the leader of Russia’s
A Melbourne academic has complained to ABC News about its weekend sports reports that described Melbourne Storm player Xavier Coates’s try against the New Zealand Warriors as “gravity-defying”. An ABC News Online report said: “Xavier Coates’s incredible, gravity-defying try helped the Storm get out of jail against the Warriors in
Our Excrement-of-the-Week judges couldn’t go past the effort put in by Pup Fiction (above and below) to take the mickey out of Peter Dutton as he exchanged blows with CSIRO on who had a better handle on nuclear theory! Ah, the theory of general negativity from the Coalition Scheme for
Australian Opposition leader (yep,really), Peter Dutton, is tipped to announce this week that fictional character Homer Simpson will be his new nuclear advisor in the run up to the next election. ”Homer Simpson brings a lot to the table,” said a Dutton confidant. ”The kids love the Simpsons, they’ve been
Russian President Vladimir Putin has narrowly retained office, obtaining just over two out of every two votes in the recent national elections. It is a disappointing result for Mr Putin, who won 117% of the vote at the last election. The Russian leader also lost 80% of his opponents during
WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT Foreign Minister Penny Wong has today ticked off a big piece of policy, ensuring that all the key details of the Prime Minister’s Bux are locked in. With the Opposition kicking up a stink about Former Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating meeting with the Chinese Foreign Minister,
ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A local grazier has cast his eye over a mob of wethers this morning and seen nothing but past failures and bad luck staring back at him. “Look at these fucken things,” he said to himself. “Flyblown cunnsathings.” Darcy Rutlock, of the ‘Astoria’ Rutlock’s
CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A semi-retired white goods retailer who lives in a 6 bedroom house with nobody but his stay-at-home second wife and the occasional daughter who is visiting from London, has today finally conceded that maybe the nation’s housing market is geared against young Australians. “I don’t know how anyone
ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Popular TV show “Old People’s Home For Media Grads” has been renewed for another season by Sky amid pressure from the network’s executives to take steps to prevent the show’s stars from regularly defaming people. Former Speaker of the House Bronwyn Bishop is one
A 12-week-old foetus has become Australia’s youngest landlord after it bought a 4-bedroom investment property in Melbourne. The proud parents say the foetus was able to buy the property by pooling pocket money, savings from odd jobs and a $850,000 contribution from them. “We want to teach our children that,
The Queensland Government (for now) has announced that the 2032 Olympic opening ceremony will be held at the Indooroopily Macca’s outdoor playground. The news comes after the billion dollar plan to rebuild the Gabba has been scrapped. ”The 2032 Brisbane Olympics will really get the World talking,” said a Government
ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A well-educated young worker from our town’s cosmopolitan French Quarter has grown tired of taking part in our society and has joined the thousands of other people in their position and set their sights abroad. “I can’t see myself getting ahead here,” they told
WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT Russia’s Opposition Leader Nikolai Kharitonov is today swallowing a bitter sweet pill. While made bitter because he lost the Russian election in a landslide, the pill is sweetened by the wonderful fact that it isn’t poisoned with some radioactive substance. Put simply, the leader of Russia’s
A Melbourne academic has complained to ABC News about its weekend sports reports that described Melbourne Storm player Xavier Coates’s try against the New Zealand Warriors as “gravity-defying”. An ABC News Online report said: “Xavier Coates’s incredible, gravity-defying try helped the Storm get out of jail against the Warriors in
Our Excrement-of-the-Week judges couldn’t go past the effort put in by Pup Fiction (above and below) to take the mickey out of Peter Dutton as he exchanged blows with CSIRO on who had a better handle on nuclear theory! Ah, the theory of general negativity from the Coalition Scheme for
Australian Opposition leader (yep,really), Peter Dutton, is tipped to announce this week that fictional character Homer Simpson will be his new nuclear advisor in the run up to the next election. ”Homer Simpson brings a lot to the table,” said a Dutton confidant. ”The kids love the Simpsons, they’ve been
Russian President Vladimir Putin has narrowly retained office, obtaining just over two out of every two votes in the recent national elections. It is a disappointing result for Mr Putin, who won 117% of the vote at the last election. The Russian leader also lost 80% of his opponents during