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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact This May budget has revealed new details about cuts to the ABC's annual budget while the government has had to defend their decision by saying they weren't motivated by revenge. Scott Morrison took the opportunity to address the media this morning at a doorstop outside Parliament where he was asked by an ABC reporter about...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Three non-executive directors of embattled wealth manager AMP will step down ahead of the annual general meeting later this year in response to the Royal Commission's shocking findings. They have chosen not to stand for re-election to the board after the fallout continues to spread. Legally, The Advocate has been slapped with a suppression order and cannot publish their names...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A Former Prime Minister is in hospital this morning after flicking through the Treasurer's Federal Budget which has been dubbed 'the mother of all political budgets'. Bob Hawke was taken to Royal North Shore Private Hospital in Sydney's leafy inheritance belt earlier this morning after taking in just what Scott Morrison's May budget means for ordinary...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A mildly popular local grain trader has shared his touching journey to being taken seriously today after spending most of his early life being good at sport. Sam Spencer-Brown played fly-half for the Whooton School 1st XV for two full seasons back in 2006 and it seemed nothing could stop his meteoric rise in popularity...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact If there's one thing that united mankind, it is our collective fear of dying in a plane crash. No aircraft in history has been rattled from the sky by turbulence before but that doesn't stop passengers from screaming, hollering and crying during especially bumpy patches of air. All except Amy Hurshell, a local primary educator. Flying into...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact There was a time when Tom Carter-Greenpoint's name would strike fear into the hearts of all the other boys at his exclusive Betoota Grove private school - but that time is long gone. It was over a decade ago, 2006 to be exact. Then 16 and three quarters, Tom and his closest friends used to trade their neckties and black...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT For 63-year-old Dennis Costello, the idea of a cab driver simply being from 'The Goldie' is a bit unrealistic. Upon getting into the cab one the way from the airport this arvo, the semi-retired aviation maintenance consultant from Brisbane's Northern Suburbs was quick to notice the slight accent, as well as the noticeably not white skin of his driver. "Where...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A Betoota Ponds personal trainer has admitted to The Advocate this afternoon that the only thing that previously stopped him from getting a sleeve tattoo was the seven fucks he had left to give. However, upon reading New York Times Bestseller, The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A Fuck, Dennis Pooley cast those fucks to the wayside and booked an appointment...

Mia Nguyen (20) shocked her peers today. The young Media and Arts Production student at the Betoota Polytechnic was simply out purchasing lunch with a couple of her friends from university, when she caused a stir. Nguyen, like most of the students in town lives pretty week to week with with most of the cash from her Youth Allowance...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Grammy-award-winning Alaskan band Portugal. The Man has reportedly 'had their heart ripped out' over some developing news that Paul from Caboolture, on Queensland's answer to the Amalfi Coast, no longer likes their music and now hates them. The news comes after the touring Alaskan band pulled out of a gig with controversial breakfast television show, Sunrise, citing the broadcast surrounding Aboriginal...