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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Reserve Bank Governor Phillip Lowe has sensationally lashed mortgage holders this morning in a firey, expletive-laden rant to leading bank executives in Sydney. During the so-called speech, Mr Lowe pointed out exactly who was in his crosshairs after months of heavy criticism for going back on his promise not to raise interest rates until 2024....

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact One of Albo's constituents has become the lucky new owner of his old True Religion jeans after finding them for sale in an Enmore Op-Shop. The boot-cut straight-leg fashion statement had the Prime Minister's name written in the label, right next to the $349 price tag. It's unclear at the moment how the once-favourite wardrobe item...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Former Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has been spotted in recent months riding many of Melbourne's night trams alone with his headphones on. On one such occasion, the once-Member for Kooyong was seen to be listening to Radiohead's Kid A, which is something the private citizen says helped him get through the darkest times after the somewhat-shocking...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactPassengers on the Jetstar flight from Brisbane to Perth have found themselves caught in the crosshairs today, as they were notified in mid air that the trip had been cancelled. It’s alleged the incident occurred roughly three hours into the flight, with passengers stating that they heard a crackle over the intercom and the captain introducing himself, and had...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Our town's landlords and property investors are beginning to feel the pinch this winter as the Reserve Bank steps up the war on inflation with yet another interest rate hike today. In response, one local landlord has instructed his leasing agent to hike the rent by a whopping 25% on one of his French Quarter...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A local blind man has been asked by the Daroo Street office of Services Australia to complete some simple forms and return them to the organisation before they cut his payments off then ask him to take the D49 trolley bus out to the Kidman Channels, walk out into the lignum and wait patiently...

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...