ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A local young professional dropped the ball earlier this week and came home drunk enough to relieve himself the dirty clothes hamper he shares with his de facto. “What is wrong with you?” asked Cynch Green to Brett Gunt, a leasing agent with
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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The famous rock ballad ‘Zombie’ was the first ever song with a female vocalist to reach one billion views on YouTube – and it hasn’t left the top ten charts in Thailand since it was released in 1994. The Cranberries hit is remembered as “a masterpiece
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WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT The Prime Minister has continued to chase the sugar hit he gets from saying deliberately inflammatory things, and today trotted out the phrase ‘sport and politics don’t mix.’ Like a shared Facebook account with an Australian flag filter, the Big Fella in Chief has sought to shut
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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact One of the nation’s most decorated sportswomen has made her annual return to the spotlight this week where she’s been roasted relentlessly by everyone. Margaret Court, a former tennis player, is now a Christian minister in our nation’s Prosperous West and had a
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LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT As the Australian Open gets set to wow middle-class people for the 56th consecutive year, the nation is shocked by what they have learnt about these elite athletes in the lead up to this tournament. Men’s world number one Novak Djokovic is one of several Australian Open
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Did anyone else reach for the chuck bucket when Morrison trotted out a new slogan while on the hustings in outback Queensland a few days back? Dressed in professional-camera-ready country-style blue shirt, fawn jeans and R.M. Williams riding boots (at top) that warranted a snappy salute from
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WASHINGTON DC: The absence of Donald and Melania Trump’s teenage son Barron from events surround their departure from Washington has finally been explained. A statement by new President Joe Biden said 14-year-old Barron had not flown to Florida with his parents but had stayed behind in the
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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Prime Minister Scott Morrison has today doubled down on his argument that the 26th of January is a day worth celebrating, by suggesting that every single person involved in the First Fleet was having a bad time. From the First Australians who were invaded, to the
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Australian Prime Minister Scotty from marketing has revealed that the 1997 NRL grand final day wasn’t that flash of a day day for him in a speech delivered to the staff of Engadine McDonald’s. ”I know a lot of the staff who worked a shift that day have
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Republican Party leaders say they have become aware of a deadly new virus called ‘COVID-19’ which has been devastating America since Wednesday. Outraged GOP lawmakers said the virus was getting out of control, and blamed the Biden administration for doing nothing to stop the new pandemic, which sprang up suddenly
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A Florida man, believed to be in his 70s, has been telling passers by that he is the leader of the free world. As authorities were called to the scene, witnesses say the man was erratic and anxious, at one point claiming he had been robbed. “He kept saying ‘They
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“Cricket and politics don’t mix,” says a politician who ‘filled in’ as an overweight water boy during a limited overs match in order to increase his everyman appeal amongst 35-65 year-old male voters living in suburban Sydney and Brisbane. Responding to Cricket Australia’s decision not to use the term ‘Australia
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Saying it was impossible to see a way for Joe Biden to win from here, Fox News has called the US Presidential Election for Donald Trump. As Joe Biden took to the stage to take the oath of office, a panel of Fox experts said the paths to the White
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Continuing the tradition started by Ronald Regan, Donald Trump has left a letter for his successor, using the opportunity to remind the incoming president that The Apprentice received some of the highest ratings we’ve seen in a very long time. Trump’s letter, which he left for Biden in the Oval
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US INAUGURATION: Joe Biden’s inauguration address overnight Australian time has been lauded as one of the best for 50 years – but he has an eagle-eyed speech writer to thank for that. The Bug can reveal exclusively that the original speech notes prepared by the 46th US president
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Mexican Government immigration officials are questioning an American family whose members are seeking asylum after claiming they were forced to flee their home nation because of political persecution. Members of the Von Trump family (main picture) were detained after crossing a section of the US-Mexican border not yet
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Chanting ‘USA! USA!’ Americans have excitedly taken to the streets to celebrate after electing a president that commentators have gushingly described as ‘okay’ and ‘much better than the last guy’. Emotional voter Emily Vanson said it was hard to put into words how she was felling. “Biden is just so
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The Media Glass House appreciates how difficult it must be to fill a 60-minute news service at 6pm each and every night. Take Channel 9’s Sydney news for example. Sure, you can rely on some footage from a member of the public of a vehicle on fire
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Despite expectations to the contrary, outgoing US President Donald Trump has adhered to at least one of the traditions surrounding the inauguration of his successor. Following his continuing but unfounded complaints about Joe Biden having “stolen” the November 2020 election, his refusal to meet the President-Elect, and his
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Australian Prime Minister Scotty from Marketing has asked the media to please ease up on all the questions, especially those about his colleague Craig Kelly, as he’s still trying to get back into the swing of things after his most recent holiday. “It’s good that the press is
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Australian Prime Minister Scotty from Marketing has returned after his latest holiday and spent the morning walking around the office telling everyone that he encounters that he needs another holiday to recover from his latest holiday. ”It sounds like the PM had a pretty full on week,” said
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Victorians complaining about being stranded in New South Wales due to the hard border closure have only themselves to blame, Daniel Andrew says, pointing out they have had weeks to qualify for the Australian Open. “Victorians have known for a long time now that the quickest way into the state
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Free speech crusader and insane conspiracy theorist Craig Kelly says that people on Facebook should be free to say the full range of things he agrees with, vowing to block anyone who disagrees. The Liberal backbencher said he will move swiftly to remove any comments on his Facebook page that
read nowDonald Trump will take up a weekly spot on Australia’s Sky News After Dark, as soon as his presidential term is over, ending weeks of speculation about what the President will do in retirement. Trump will join fellow Sky commentators Alan Jones, Cory Bernardi, Rowen Dean and Andrew
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