TRACEY BENDINGER | Culture | Contact After watching Scotty from Marketing over the past couple of months, below average marketing student, Stacey Watts is today realising that hope is not lost when it comes to her career. Due to graduate this year, the P-average student had felt a little concerned about her job
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FRANKIE DeGROOT | News | CONTACT In a revolutionary new plan announced by Assistant Minister for Road Safety and Freight Transport Scott Buchholz, Takata airbags which have been recently removed from tens of thousands of Australian cars will be refitted to the vehicles of drivers with multiple dangerous driving convictions. “It’s all about raising the stakes for dangerous
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This is a tale of omission. Well, two, actually. The Bug‘s Glasshouse over time has gleefully pointed out examples of simple words missing that really mess up the flow of a story. We’ve spotted them in the lead story of some of Australia’s supposedly finest printed newspapers and in The
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LEGAL AFFAIRS: A group of animals representing others of their breeds usually farmed for food production is planning to sue vegan food makers for misrepresentation. In Brisbane today, a lamb, a prawn and a chicken held a news conference at the offices of the law firm acting for them (main
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The Bug is proud as punch, as Australia’s No.1 family online newspaper, to introduce a new regular weekend feature quiz that the whole family can join in and enjoy. Everyone loves fillums so who’s the fillum aficionado in your home? From the promotional still above, name the movie, the
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TRACEY BENDINGER | Culture | Contact Andy McMillan has felt a wave of panic set over him this evening after receiving a message alert from his cousin’s weird, cider drinking boyfriend. Andy tells our reporter, who happened to be at the scene, that over Christmas he was just trying to be polite when
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TRACEY BENDINGER | Culture | Contact Young media professional Rhyce Lukas has been on holidays in a remote tropical location for the past 2 weeks and according to his out of office reply, he won’t be able to reply to any emails because there’s no reception, so if it’s not urgent it’ll have
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LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT Although continuing until the tail end of January, school holidays have been cut short once again thanks to stationery suppliers going live with a premature ‘Back to School’ ad campaign. Although continuing until the tail end of January, school holidays have been cut short once again thanks
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FEDERAL POLITICS: Prime Minister Scott Morrison, his political standing severely damaged in recent polls over his handling of the bushfire crisis, has been buoyed by unqualified support from his most powerful ministerial colleague. In an exclusive interview with The Bug via satellite phone from his rented holiday villa near Barcelona
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FEDERAL POLITICS: Prime Minister Scott Morrison has defused the “sports rorts” affair that had threatened to engulf his government by securing bipartisan support for his plan to establish a new specialised federal funding agency. At a Canberra news conference Mr Morrison announced he would establish a new Marginal Electorate Rorting
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TRACEY BENDINGER | Culture | Contact Local man Chris Thorpe is a quiet, small business owner who generally doesn’t get phased by too much. From all reports in the Old Town community, Chris is a quiet guy. However, it has recently come to the attention of The Advocate that Chris’s ‘nice guy’ persona
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Scott Morrison says the Government’s $2 billion bushfire relief fund will be set aside for seats won by a margin of less than 3% at the last federal election. Mr Morrison was unapologetic about the policy, saying it was important the funds were spent efficiently. “In times
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As his impeachment trial begins in the US Senate, President Trump has unveiled the material he plans to deliver in his defence. Mr Trump today invited media representatives to the Oval Office at the White House where he showed off his defence submission which consisted entirely of a tray
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In response to the Auditor General’s finding that a $100m program of sports funding was used to “pork barrel”, the Federal Government has decided to implement a new code for ministers reminiscent of the Howard Government’s Code of Conduct. To be named the Ministerial Code of Suggestions for Conduct
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Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie has defended her decision to fund an MCG-sized sports stadium in Launceston, saying the ultra-marginal seat of Bass was crying out for a world-class sporting facility. In an interview this morning, McKenzie said no rules were broken and that the funds were allocated on
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A positive has emerged from Australia’s summer of bushfires as scientists report that countless spiders, ticks, ants and other dickhead animals have perished in the flames. “Those little eight legged bastards can scuttle as fast as they want but they won’t be able to outrun a rampaging fire front,”
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Media conglomerate News Corp says there is absolutely no evidence linking James Murdoch to the Murdoch family, and have described him as a hoax invented by the ABC to push a socialist agenda. It comes after ‘James’ slammed the company for its stance on climate change. An editorial published
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Tasmanian Premier Will Hodgman has resigned saying he wants to spend more time getting to know his other head. “Politics is hard work and I’ve found that I’ve drifted apart from my other head over the past five years,” said an emotional former Premier as he dabbed tears from
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Liberal backbencher and science whiz Craig Kelly says NASA’s claim that smoke from Australia’s fires will do a full lap of the earth is ‘ridiculous’, pointing out that it’s impossible to ‘lap’ a two dimensional object. NASA scientists believe the smoke will travel entirely around the globe before returning
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The Morrison Government’s Minister for Manila George Christensen has been kept busy trying to organise a fundraiser for Filipino victims of the Australian bushfires. “The bushfires in Australia are taking an horrific toll not just here but abroad,” said the Minister for Manila. “Many reputable business people like Myself
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A man at a local shopping centre car park has let it be known that he will be spending the next seven to eight minutes manoeuvring into a parking space backwards. Waiting until there were as many people as possible to inconvenience, the man theatrically swerved his SUV
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One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson has refused to rule out the World being flat and the effect of which exacerbating the current bushfires burning in Australia. “We can’t say for sure that the earth is round,” said Senator Hanson. ”I have been shown some fascinating blogs and YouTube
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Australia’s Prime Minister (for now) Scott Morrison has told colleagues to not worry too much about the bushfires as they will soon be extinguished by rising sea levels caused by climate change. “Yeah Scotty’s not too phased by the bushfires as he’s adamant that the Lord will intervene somehow
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Parents are outraged after it was revealed a group of Young Liberals has been reading books to children as part of a Brisbane public library’s story time session. The Young Liberals are known to dress up in expensive clothing and act as over-the-top, self-entitled wankers, leaving many parents concerned.
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