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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact "I'm doing the GLUMAP-free diet," she said. "It'd also be really good if you could do it with me, seeing as though it'd remove all temptations! " Mark said he'd just pulled his headphones out walking up the steps to his first skid-row apartment on the edge of the Old City District when he received the news. "So what does that...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A whole boardroom nervously laughed this morning at FOX Sport's Sydney headquarters today after recent big-name signing Shane Warne floated the idea of maybe bringing back his old talkshow. During the 2010-11 Ashes Series, Shane had his own cricket-themed variety show that debuted to great fanfare - but was ultimately killed off by 'uppity middle-managers...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Embattled Liberal Senator Michaelia Cash reportedly snatched an idle letter opener off her desk and hidden under the table as a man attempting to service a Federal Court subpoena knock on her office door. Earlier today, the Federal Court has issued a subpoena that forced Jobs Minister to give evidence in the Australian Workers Union (AWU) raids case. However, the prominent...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Sometimes swearing up to twice per sheep, a local shearing team has told reporters that they've barely broken even this week after a landowner put a swear jar in his shed. Dennis Procter, who is a man of God, said he made the contractor aware of the jar's presence before they started work on his...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Though he doesn't plan on doing anything too extreme on his upcoming holiday, a popular local tax accountant as purchased himself a GoPro to document his European odyssey with. Speaking candidly to The Advocate in the lunch line at the Subway on the ground floor of our building, Colin Cresney said he liked the size and image quality of the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A pair of cyclists were seen riding down a narrow footpath this morning in the Old City District, prompting questions as to why they were doing it. Denise Pearlman and Roger Pooley, two self-described-middle-aged yuppies from the French Quarter, rang their bells incessantly at the shuffling pedestrians that blocked their path. "On your right," yelled Roger as...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT Local blues die-hard Josh Sullivan has already begun explaining to coworkers why New South Wales will win the State of Origin this year. Work colleague Ash Barton said that Sullivan, 29, usually starts carrying on about Origin around this time of year, before reaching fever pitch the week of game Game One. “I feel so bad...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A Brisbane man is due to face court this morning after being detained by police overnight for allegedly enjoying himself in Sydney overnight. John Darcy Cartwright, of Betoota Hills, was observed by police from the harbour capital's Riot and Public Order Squad shouting at friends inside a pub at around 1 am last night. Police will allege that the 24-year-old...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT A Henderson family get-together has finished on an unorthodox pleasant note today, which pundits are attributing to uncle Brian Henderson’s ‘controversial opinion’ being surprisingly mild for a change. During his brother Marcus Henderson’s 51st birthday cake and tea celebration, Brian Henderson waited for the usual post cake lull to settle before unleashing one of his...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Despite ruining his dinner last night, a very polite young man wasn't able to leave a negative review out of fear it might cost the young backpacker who delivered the pizza his job. Daniel Coleman told The Advocate today that he was very disappointed when he opened the pizza box last night to find most of it was attached...