Former Liberal MP Rob Johnson has failed in his attempt to stay in parliament as an independent. Johnson quit the Liberal party eleven months ago after declaring he’d lost faith in the Liberals and Premier Colin Barnett. The fall out between Johnson and the Premier built up over several years after he was dumped as […]
One Nation’s Richard Eldridge has apologised for comments he made on a Twitter account prior to standing as a political candidate. Speaking to 6PR’s new drive time host Oliver Peterson, Eldridge said the tweets from the account named ‘Ned Kelly’ were usually sent while the ABC’s program Q&A was screening. He explained that the tweets were meant […]
People flood Michelle Meyers pages with rainbows People have responded to One Nation’s Michelle Meyers unearthed comments suggesting that the gay community utilises a covert Nazi-styled mind control program to foster support for marriage equality by flooding her social media pages with rainbow emojis. The personal and professional pages of Meyers were filled with images, […]
New Zealand will follow the United Kingdom and several Australian states by removing historical convictions for gay offences. Apologising to people who had been convicted, New Zealand’s Justice minister Amy Adams said people convicted of indecency, sodomy or providing a place for homosexual acts would have their criminal records wiped. The government has ruled out any […]
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has announced that her party will run fifty five candidates in the Western Australian state election in March. Candidates will be running for spots in the upper house in every region, while forty five will run for the Legislative Assembly. Senator Hanson presented her candidates at a packed media call […]
Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett is not overjoyed that the plebiscite on marriage equality may overlap the campaign for the state election. There has been speculation that the plebiscite will not be held until February 2017. The federal government has confirmed that the Australian Electoral Commission has given them advice that it’s not possible […]
Labor’s number 1 candidate in Western Australia, Joe Bullock, has rejected calls to resign from his position in the Senate. United Voice, the union that backed Bullock in a pre-election fight, made calls for him to resign following an audio re-run of comments he made about the Labor party, his running mate Louise Pratt’s sexuality […]
