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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact In one of the many display homes being built in Betoota Heights, inside one of them today an apprentice was asked to pop outside by the boss where they'd have a little bit of a chat. The foreman had just come and gone to the site on Hinze Link Road and made a passing comment...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A Betoota Heights man has confused a hotplate for a grill this week after returning from the shops with an electric barbecue. Codie Hoover is just hours away from being rinsed by his mates, not that he knows that, after inviting a dozen or so of them over on Sunday for a Grand Final barbecue. In...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact After living rent-free with his parents for two years, Bowen Niles and his fiance-of-five-years Heidi Nichols have been able to enter the local property market. They've secured a three-bedroom townhouse on Jasper Street in the French Quarter and years of renting in grotty apartments in the same neighbourhood. "I'm just so glad I can put...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactAfter a solid ten years of journalists constructing wanky thought pieces blaming millennials for killing countless industries, traditions and institutions, the gauntlet has finally been laid to rest as ‘generation me’ finally hits back - literally. The Advocate can report that a string of attacks is said to have started earlier this year, when Penn Herrod-Gordon , a decorated...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Kremlin has confirmed months of speculation that President Vladimir Putin is not well. In a post shared to the Kremlin's official TikTok account, the Russian leader has come clean with the world regarding his recent diagnosis of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). ADHD is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders. It is usually first diagnosed in...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A Betoota Heights man is unimpressed with NASA's recent effort to crash a satellite into an asteroid. Damien Clark says he's done something much more impressive. "I was the guy who put his Celica into the only pole in the ALDI carpark last year," said the 28-year-old carpenter. "Yes, I was doing donuts. I was absolutely sending...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Member For Kennedy has welcomed the introduction of federal corruption watchdog legislation to the House of Representatives today, telling The Advocate that he supports it even though it doesn't include a method to "dispatch the bastards who bring the Commonwealth into disrepute". Explaining to our reporter in Canberra, Bob Katter wanted a Federal ICAC...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A 9-year-old boy from our nation's self-serving, sanctimonious "first state" of New South Wales has apologised for hacking into Optus and pinching the personal details of millions of people before holding them ransom for a million Australian lira. The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, confessed to his parents that...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A French Quarter has made himself some comfort food this afternoon because he went quite hard on the weekend now feels quite flat. "That should make me feel better," said Darcy Coleman, a 35-year-old bachelor who lives in the apartment opposite our reporter. He spoke to our reporter in the shared laundry of the apartment complex...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACTIn things you may not have thought about in absolute yonks, it has been confirmed that Halal Certification is no longer the number one concern for local rednecks following a few years of genuine drama. One of the hot-button topics of 2014, Halal Certification was a major issue for Australians that thought a picture of a ute with fishing...