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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Political opponents and commentators are calling on NSW Labor leader Chris Minns to fall on his sword today after the poker machine industry uncovered long lost images of the 43-year-old dressed as a zulu warrior at a university party. The latest photos see a fresh-faced Chris Minns laughing and enjoying the atmosphere at party, said...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Controversial Russian tennis player Daniil Medvedev has used his press conference this morning to ask reporters if things would be different if he wasn't who he was. The philosophical question comes after the 26-year-old told someone in the crowd to "fuck off" yesterday which prompted a code violation from the chair umpire. It's unknown what the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Prince Harry is under fire this week for pointing out that mainstream journalism is largely done to a poor standard these days. It comes after the latchkey royal made waves earlier this year by sharing some deeply unique and personal news that like many hundreds of millions of people around the world, they have a...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A young father from our town's Heights district found himself watching Bluey this morning at 4:37am and as he was watching it, he told The Advocate that he thought his mind was playing tricks on him. After giving up trying to get his son back to sleep, Corey Haggard thought it was better he put...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A Betoota Heights man has been left questioning everything this morning after a screening of Avatar 2 last night at the local shopping centre cinema. Springing the extra couple of Australian pesos to see the blockbuster in XTREME 4D, Denver Mathewson was excited to finally see the next instalment of a film he vaguely remembers...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A report commissioned by the Brisbane Chamber of Commerce (BCC) has concluded that Azealia Banks just doesn't get Origin after refusing to show up in Queensland yet again. It comes after the New Yorker pulled up stumps here because her promoter "shit the bed" and the crowds in the Sunshine State have historically been quiet...

DR CHET SPEVENS | Finance Expert | ContactCan you imagine how scary it is to turn your back on the future leaders of Australia? To shy away from the young, reprehensible boys who will one day be the most powerful men in the country? Well, as a former rising lieutenant in the youth wing of the Liberal Party, I know exactly what that feels...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A yet another screaming gaggle of in-laws arrive at his rented beach house, a local father retreated into the kitchen to enjoy some standing ham acoustically and wait for the inevitable. Bruce Putnam secured the Lake Betoota property this time last year and his in-laws left finding a neighbouring property to last month, so they're...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Labor MPs are being recalled from holidays this week in order for the Prime Minister to pass his landmark legislation to pass rising energy costs onto the foreign-owned fossil fuel instead of everyday working families. That means Anthony Albanese's annual Cooks River mush is on hold until this becomes law, the Prime Minister's Office confirmed. Each...

DR CHET SPEVENS | Finance Expert | CONTACT Are you sick of not getting paid as much as your male colleagues just because you’re a woman? Tired of your male counterparts getting that promotion even though you’re more qualified and experienced? Angry at constantly being interrupted by men only for them to repeat back to you what you’ve just said? Welcome to...