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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A Betoota Heights bachelor is considering lodging a complaint with the ACCC this week after feeling underwhelmed with his purchase of a bagless vacuum cleaner. Dennis Mulligan told The Advocate today while waiting in line for the D45 trolley bus out of the city that his Dyson 'suck stick' hasn't lived up to his expectations. "Oh...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactAs Melissa Viklund navigates her way through the Gardens Point campus one late afternoon, she finds herself startled by the most spine chilling sound she’s ever heard. What the FUCK was that? Admittedly, It certainly doesn't help that she was walking through parkland at dusk and the fact she'd just finished watching season four of Stranger Things, which was several...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Opposition leader Peter Dutton is on the charm offensive this morning as he looks to rebrand himself as a Sydney renaissance man in an effort to win back the blue-chip Sydney electorates that the party desperately needs to go blue at the next Federal Election. The big Queenslander was seen sporting a stylish red bandana...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A Betoota Heights small business owner has acknowledged Opposition leader Peter Dutton's pledge not to forget him at the next election but he says all he wants is for some fucking high-paid prick in Canberra to make everything cheaper because right now, he's got no fucking idea how he's going to cope if things...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The unsinkable Barnaby Joyce has started the leadership goanna pull inside the Nationals Party Room meeting in Canberra today, taking on the likes of Victorian Darren Chester and Queenslander David Littleproud. As is customary, the two challengers took their shirts off and consumed two hot mid-strength beers and signed a waiver. Sources within the Nationals say...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Nationals are spilling the leadership next week and two horses have broken away from the pack as the Albanese Government sees out its first week of government. Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce is under threat from Victorian Darren Chester, who's been a long-time critic of the Duke of Danglemah and declared today that the party...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The dash is illuminated this evening inside the Prime Ministerial BMW 7-Series after out-going Prime Minister Scott Morrison gave it one last gutful of E10 petrol before he has to give the keys back to the Department. A number of bongs and chimes, as well as warning lights, have come to life next to the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Self-loathing leftie Paul Murray has put his plans to take the country back on hold this week after some of his viewers recoiled in horror after the Sky News host suggested he needed to start blowing up bridges and shooting loyalist soldiers. Last night on Paul Murray's show, the inner-city vegan made comparisons to...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Premier of the Democratic People's Republic Of West Australia (DPRWA) has begun carrying the hermit kingdom's nuclear launch codes with him wherever he goes after relations with our continent's east sink to an all-time low. Earlier this week, the rogue state's defacto leader Premier Mark McGowan slammed the "pig-headed" leaders of the Eastern...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactThere’s been a big shift in Australian politics this week, as the nation watched in confusion as our prime minister met with international delegates, and didn’t appear to do anything embarrassing or mildly insulting. Anthony Alabanese has appeared at QUAD as one of his first duties as prime minister, which he did so with the new foreign minister Penny...