INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMACY:
The White House meeting between President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison scheduled for early this morning Australian time has been cancelled at the last minute under sensational circumstances.
The Bug understands a vital negotiating tool essential if our Prime Minister was to hold his own
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Broadcast network SBS has announced that the next season of their daring expose into the lives of Australians doing it tough will be taking a much needed turn.
Heralded as ‘unnecessary’ and ‘exploitative,’ the original Struggle Street gave a voice to disadvantaged Australians in the types of
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For reasons unbeknown to The Advocate, society has been left reeling yet again at the news that an over-privileged, privately-educated son of somebody important turned out be an arsehole.
The Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, has this week admitted to wearing blackface for
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Reporters for working for Australia’s biggest media monoply have today been treated to an afternoon at Wet ‘n’ Wild, as their bosses fight tooth and nail to avoid publishing any news about a particular news story that seems to go against their owners ideology.
That particular news
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A Betoota Heights big unit and tricode football star who needs no introduction is still rolling through the streets of our cosmopolitan desert community while many others in his cohort elected to leave for bigger things in the east.
Denham Pearson has had
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In a shocking case of animal abuse it has been confirmed today a unconfirmed number of digital domesticated animals known as Neopets have starved to death after 15 years of neglect.
Most popular during the mid-naughties, Neopets.com was best known for being the thing daytime TV parents
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Scepticism has greeted a claim by local woman Hilda Beckitts that her garden hose is somehow shrinking of it’s own accord.
Hilda, 84, who lives just down the road from Betoota Heights high school, says she distinctly remembers purchasing a 30m hose in 2017, but now it
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In just a day or so our Prime Minister Scott Morrison will attend a formal State Dinner in Washington hosted by US President Donald Trump.
As one who has attended several such events over my long career as an adviser to politicians and governments of all political persuasions,
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The time-consuming, old-fashioned way of creating coal could be a thing of the past, the ABC’s News Breakfast program revealed this morning.
That’s right. All those school and geography text books about
all that dead plant matter that had to decay over millions of years under heat and pressure
GWS Giants fans have swamped Melbourne ahead of Saturday’s clash with Collingwood, with both saying they are hopeful of a grand final berth for their team.
Virgin and Qantas considered putting on extra flights to accommodate the influx of Giants fans, but later confirmed they were able to
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FEDERAL POLITICS:
Canberra’s night of nights (and doesn’t that indicate what a colourless, bland, dump it is) was held last night at Parliament House.
The Mid-Winter Ball, organised as a charity fundraising event by the Federal Parliamentary Media Gallery, is a much-anticipated (see first paragraph) event on the annual political calendar.
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HOLLYWOOD:
Fans of Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey rejoice! The two comedy stars are to reunite in not just one but two films – and both have a distinctively Aussie flavour.
In fact, my Hollywood spies tell me that both movies have been inspired by the pending visit to the
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Cashing in on the nostalgia for early 2018 culture, Marvel Studios has announced plans for a modern reboot of the classic movie Avengers: Infinity War, set for release next year.
Director Joe Russo said he was excited to introduce the movie to a new generation of fans, as
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Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison has reportedly invited American President Donald Trump to come to Australia to join him for a State dinner at the Prime Minister’s restaurant of choice, Engadine Macca’s.
“We Australians are an hospitable bunch,” said Prime Minister ScoMo. “So when my mate Donald invited me
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One Nation’s leading Scientific mind Malcolm Roberts has today demanded the Government immediately hold a Royal Commission into whether or not the fridge light stays on when the door is closed.
“It’s time this Government focused on issues that matter to this country like the fridge door light situation,”
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An inner city office worker has casually asked his colleague if they think we’ve had enough rain yet to shut up the farmers. Before going on to hope for a return of ‘good’ weather before the up coming weekend.
“Look I know the farmers are doing it tough but
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MEDIA:
Journalists at The Sydney Morning Herald, one of the former Fairfax mastheads acquired by Nine Entertainment Co late last year, are threatening strike action over a name change recommended by senior management.
The Bug has been told by company insiders that Nine executives want to change what SMH stands
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In a stunning rebuke to the idea that the Coalition’s proposal of drug testing welfare recipients might reduce use of drugs, a Sydney cocaine dealer The (un)Australian just happened to run into on Saturday night was actually not that worried about the impact on his business.
“What they’re talking
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Canberra’s Parliamentary groundskeeper has reportedly found a deceased Unicorn on the roof of Parliament house with those inside fearful that it indicates a return of the Dark Lord to Canberra.
“These are dire times if he who must not be named has returned to Canberra,” said a Parliamentary Spokesperson.
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Former deputy Prime Minister and self confessed ‘families man’ Barnaby Joyce has once again refused to pull out. Of speaking at an anti-abortion rally in Sydney over the weekend.
“People want, no they need to hear my opinion on abortion,” said former Minister Joyce. “I mean who do you
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Liberal MP Gladys Liu says she can’t recall if she has been the member for the Victorian seat of Chisholm for the past four months, but says if she is the member, it is in a honorary capacity only.
In an interview last night, Ms Liu agreed she
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Donald Trump has used a memorial for September 11 victims to reflect on the thousands of men and women who have told him how great a president he is.
In a solemn service at the White House, Mr Trump said Americans should take time to reflect on what
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called for new measures that would require welfare recipients to provide a sample of their blood, as a sign that they are serious about having a go in this country.
Mr Morrison said he was “puzzled” by the level of opposition to the
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Viewers who expected 60 Minutes Australia’s program about royal ‘scandal’ and ‘abuse’ to be about a prince accused of raping a 17 year-old girl, were surprised to discover it was actually about a princess who wore the wrong clothes.
“Plot twist!” viewer Sam Renais said after watching the episode.
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