Clancy Overell

2 weeks ago | betootaadvocate.com | Clancy Overell

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACTDorothy Matilda-Mackay (70) says she’s sick of this two-party system that has directly benefited her specific generation and class of Australians since she first started voting. Once a dyed-in-the-wool Liberal voter, Dorothy admits to secretly voting for Paul Keating in 1993 – when it looked like Labor were becoming the type of political party you could publicly claim at opera pre-drinks.

2 weeks ago | betootaadvocate.com | Clancy Overell

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACTOpposition leader Peter Dutton has come in hot to the final days of the 2025 Federal Election campaign. As the polls continue to tilt in Prime Minister Albanese’s favour, Dutton kicked of the week by describing the ABC as ‘Hate Media’. This was before he attempted to hijack the entire news cycle by legitimising the Neo-Nazis that gatecrashed Melbourne’s ANZAC Day Dawn Service to boo at Aboriginal speakers.

2 weeks ago | betootaadvocate.com | Clancy Overell

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACTOne week out from the Federal Election and it appears that there are several different votes happening right around the country. In the Liberal Party’s once safest urban electorates, the rise of Independent candidates have put government integrity and climate change at the top of the agenda. In the outer metropolitan marginal seats, most held by Labor, the election is solely about the cost of living pressures.

2 weeks ago | betootaadvocate.com | Clancy Overell

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACTRecord-breaking early voter numbers have confirmed that Australians cannot wait to get the 2025 Federal Election over with. Right around the nation, fed up tax-payers are lining up at their local town halls and letting not only the Australian Electoral Commission know how they feel, but also the volunteers who have been stationed out front in an effort to sway their vote.

3 weeks ago | betootaadvocate.com | Clancy Overell

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACTAs the 2025 Federal Election campaign pauses for yet another long weekend, the Coalition have yet to experience any luck at all. In elections gone by, even the most unpopular Federal Oppositions have enjoyed some form of a campaign honeymoon. This has not been the case for Peter Dutton.