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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A Chicago man in Darwin for business has shot bolt-upright in bed this afternoon thinking he's back at home after thousands of small-scale explosions take place right outside his city window. Defence contractor Stephen Morris told The Advocate this evening as he composed himself that he knew he was in the Top End but for...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactProving that we are edging closer and closer to living in a dystopian society, a Melbourne landlord has advertised accommodation that is essentially multiple human holding cells. Despite approximately a million empty houses across the country, many people are still having trouble finding accommodation, with some rooms seeing up to hundred applicants for what is essentially a shitbox. This type...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A Commissioner at the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has been forced to cancel his planned trip to Europe next month because the watchdog is anticipating that things are about to get "fucking busy" at the office. In light of recent events inside the NSW Parliament, Commissioner Robert Page told The Advocate...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Data from last year's census has revealed a steep dip in the number of Australians leaving Christianity, which many attribute to God leaving this fucked planet in recent years. However, his polite son Jesus Christ has hit back at the suggestion, telling this masthead that the census data is probably just wrong. "I think you will...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactProving that the age of spandex is well and truly back, Hollywood producers have been rushing to reboot bromance themed 1980s hits, which appear to be a winning formula. Despite being a decade that was not known to be very socially progressive, 80s movies were chock full of bromances, with movies such as Lethal Weapon, Point Break, Wayne’s World...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Australian Tax Office has warned struggling small business owners that they are in their sights today as the financial year ends with a bang. Interest rates are set to be jacked again today by the Reserve Bank, compounding pressure on families and people just out there having a go. If you tell the ATO...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact With pressure growing across the Regional Queensland rental market, a local sexagenarian offered some unsolicited advice to this masthead that involved starting at the bottom and working your way up to his position. Comments made by Betoota Heights resident Mark Redoman today were triggered by an advertisement in The Advocate's real estate lift-out, Buy Sell...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A group of local 30-somethings have compared graduating during the 2007-2010 Global Financial Crisis to the current housing affordability crisis, telling The Advocate that both events have had their own effect on shaping their psyche moving forward. In one of the function rooms above the Gelded Seahorse Hotel in the Old City, Stanley Coleman...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactA Betoota Heights woman has today witnessed a very strange phenomenon, after attempting to get a prescription filled for some dermatitis cream. Visiting her local Chemist Warehouse at roughly 3pm, as she’d long ago learnt that lunch time and after work was the worst possible time to go, Verity Hall had figured the task would take no longer...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactThe Bureau of Meteorology has declared that La Nina is ‘officially over’ but states there’s a high chance it could be back to fuck up Spring. Making sure to stop just as the country moves into the coldest and darkest part of winter, news that La Nina could be popping in for a visit during some of the best...