Today I can report to The Bug reader on a new concept in TV entertainment programs that our national broadcaster, the ABC, will offer soon to Australian audiences. My sources within the national broadcaster tell me that the new program will blend two important ingredients that have been a feature of

Now who wouldn’t like to see that! Before we all put pegs on our noses and burn off a rather eclectic final mix of our Xcrements-of-Last-Week, we thought we’d kick off with the image (above and below) fropm a video posted by so many Xers that

… WELL, WE NEVER! You BUGgers out there have probably never thought about how our compilers decide whether some media fuckup should be in our Mediocre Bytes column that look at the silly little mistakes that worry us about the state of journalism or in its more serious sibling Media

Our first tranche of Xcrements-of-the-Week on Monday concentrated on the Liberal Party’s new federal leadership, still pushing old policies and platforms … for now at least. Today we return to the ongoing virtal shitstorm that has settled above the head of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese over his recklessly stupid state-visit

Just days after a new Liberal Party leader was elected and just weeks after the Liberal and National parties restitched their coalition agreement, moves by some MPs within both parties are again threatening the cohesion and the very future of the two conservative parties. The Bug can report that despite

A cruel prank engineered by various federal government ministerial staff has backfired, leaving Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Foreign Minister Penny Wong and other senior Cabinet members languishing in various hospitals around the country and recovering ever so slowly from the massive shocks and loss of consciousness the prank sparked. The