WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT In some news from across the Eastern Seaboard and a few Saffa heavy districts in Perth and Melbourne, a cohort veteran props are calling for greater equity in the mask market. This comes after it was revealed that every single veteran Rugby Union prop, and a fair
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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT 2020 is officially taking the piss, according to the long-suffering people of South Coast NSW. “Oh come on, seriously?” says one local resident, Eden Milton (55), mirroring the sentiments of everyone in the exhausted stretch of New South Wales coastline. “for fucks sake” After a year of
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Just days after Donald Trump enquired about having his face added to Mount Rushmore, the organisation that oversees the famous monument has confirmed it will add the bust of Barack Obama, saying it would be worth the cost and effort just to see Trump lose his delicate little mind.
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COVID-19: Take a bow, Australia. Our top scientists have beaten the world to a practical COVID-19 solution – and it’s not even a vaccine! CSIRO experts have developed a phone app that identifies any people who are currently infected with coronavirus, even if they are non-symptomatic, allowing them to be
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Our nation’s future Queen, the Duchess of Cambridge, has been making the most of the pandemic lockdown conditions in force across the UK for much of this year by honing her photography skills. The former Kate Middleton, wife of the future King, Prince William the Duke of Cambridge, is a
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A Shire dad is totally dismayed that his favourite band from the 1980s Midnight Oil have gone all woke with their new release “Gadigal Land”. “Mate what happened to the Oils, they used to do really cool rockers like “US Forces”, “Power And The Passion” and “Beds Are Burning”
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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A nice four-tooth whether got lost over the weekend and found himself mustered into a local farmer’s yards this morning. The sheep, who spoke candidly to The Advocate this afternoon, said he walked up a stay in the corner of his home paddock
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LOUIS BURKE | Culture | Contact In an age of online activism, support and solidarity have become essential pieces of the ally-toolkit and the mature version of giving yourself a pat on the back. Noted ally and visibly straight male Harrison Forte (38) is committed to making all people
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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Victoria has recorded its deadliest day of the pandemic with 19 new deaths overnight and 322 new cases of COVID-19. Of the deaths, 14 were linked to aged care outbreaks. While the new deaths surpassed yesterday’s record high, the new case numbers represent a new low for
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WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT Channel 10 is currently at panic stations this afternoon, after hitting a major hurdle before tonight’s premiere of The Masked Singer. The popular TV show features masked celebrities performing, whilst a panel tries to guess who it is performing. However, amidst the current climate, the producers of
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ENTERTAINMENT: The Bug continues to uncover rising new stand-up comics who one day will challenge Australia’s current crop of stars. And give further support to those we’ve spotted already and remain convinced can make it to the very top. Today, we revisit the emerging career of Brisbane’s very own Peter
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A man who posted thousands of YouTube videos of himself doing acrobatic parkour stunts at major world landmarks back in 2010 was seen painfully trying to get his walking frame past a slight rise in the footpath yesterday. “HURTS… EVERYTHING HURTS,” screamed twenty seven year old former internet sensation
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After months of inaction and obfuscation, Donald Trump has finally taken decisive action to address the coronavirus pandemic gripping his nation, banning a lip-syncing app popular with teenagers. As COVID-related deaths in the US topped 160,000, Mr Trump said Americans wanted to see sensible solutions. “If you’ve got a loved
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In this special report The Bug’s resident sex expert, Dr Dick, looks at a uniquely male practice that some women find difficult to accept. It was not long after I began practising and counselling, many years ago now, that I discovered a lot of women expressed concern when they
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SPACE: US space agency NASA will make an exception for a relatively recently discovered nebula as part of its plans to rename several cosmic objects. NASA spokesperson Con Stellation said the agency had decided to apply new names to a number of celestial bodies whose common names were no longer
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QUEENSLAND POLITICS: The Queensland Government has floated the idea of funding its expensive fight against the COVID-19 pandemic by implementing a new “Ekka tax”. A senior government source told The Bug the idea had received the strong backing of Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and her Cabinet. “The idea is that every
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Australia’s Minister for the Dark Arts, Peter Dutton has called upon journalists who dare to question either him or his minions over at Australian Border Force to be sent to re-education camps so that they can understand how things now work. ”What this country’s journalists need to understand is
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A strange man from Brisbane has asked the government to let him spy on people. It is not the first time the man has made the odd request, with sources saying he is constantly asking for more surveillance tools that will allow him to get a closer look at peoples’
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Virgin Australia’s new owners have reassured customers that their decision to axe offshoot airline Tiger Airways will not make any difference to service levels, with the low-cost carrier to continue operating zero completed flights per day as usual. “We’ve made the difficult decision to continue the service levels that you
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Viewers across America have looked on in amazement as an Australian man managed to hold Donald Trump to account using a new magic technique known as ‘journalism’. People were glued to their screens as presenter Jonathan Swan appeared to use journalism on the President, at one point coaxing him into
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One Nations’ leading scientific mind (sic) Malcolm Roberts has called upon the Morrison Government to make funding available to those sovereign citizens who wish to build a backyard bunker as part of their doomsday preparations. ”For too long my fellow sovereign citizens have been neglected by this Government,” said
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Former deputy Prime Minister and aspiring Minister for Affairs Barnaby Joyce has called on the Victorian Premier Dan Andrews to ease restrictions in the State to allow people from interstate to visit those they wish to bonk. “I understand that things are tough in Victoria right now, but come on
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With retail stores closed in Melbourne, conspiracy theorists have resorted to posting videos of themselves not wearing a mask while shopping online, saying it’s the only way they can get attention under new lockdown rules. One woman became embroiled in a heated argument with the Bunnings online help chat-bot, demanding
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A conspiracy theorist’s nipples have given away his excitement as a conversation he was part of began to transition to a discussion around 5G. Trent McGaw, 37, tried to hide his enthusiasm and pull his jacket over his ever expanding ‘chesticles,’ a clear sign as to how thrilled he
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