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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A case of regicide has occurred in outer-metro south-east-corner Queensland this weekend as our state's disenfranchised and fed-up hinterland men turned on their Queen. One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is set to lose her spot in the Federal Senate; her duty Malcolm Roberts has zero hope of returning to the red room. The tectonic shift...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A young man who's spent 32 years living in his entrepreneur father's shadow has blasted a Betoota Heights state school for charging him $5 for a deluxe democracy sausage. Speaking to The Advocate outside the only polling station in our town's north, Spencer-Douglas Sterling-Langley said on top of the extortionate price they're charging for food,...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Someone's son put on a brave face today as young couple after young couple rolled their eyes at him, some even telling him what they thought of him, as he handed out flyers at the Greenbrier Road State School in Betoota Grove. In one of the leafiest enclaves in our cosmopolitan desert republic, many Betoota...

KEITH T. DENNETT | New South | CONTACTA local Instagram celebrity has let all her followers know that she has voted this morning, taking to the platform to post an image of an election queue. Framing up a shot of a long line of punters at a standstill, it’s believed local micro-influencer Britnee Walters (25) is keen to let all 1,150 of her Instagram...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactIn some startling news, those looking to indulge in a democracy sausage may be left feeling a little disappointed tomorrow, as the Australian electoral commission has stated that there may be some food shortages - but not the kind our nation has gotten used to. Posting a statement to every social media channel, the AEC has warned that the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A 456-month-old baby told The Advocate today that he was just trying to have a peaceful shit at the pub after lunch and as he closed the cubicle door, he saw the last thing he thought he'd see. On the back of the toilet door, Martin Gunk saw a handwritten electorate advertisement for Kooyong...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Prime Minister is mulling a coup should he lose this weekend's election, insiders say, after telling aides that "they'll need a bulldozer to get him out of Kirribilli". The question of his political future should he go down swinging against Anthony Albanese has been put to Scott Morrison a number of times this week...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The night manager at the Lake Betoota Country Club thought he'd give himself a laugh this morning and check his super balance. He's worked flat out for pretty much a decade but due to the traditional hospitality super theft by employers and lack of full-time contracts with benefits like sick days, Dennis Walter says...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Coalition's money men have earmarked further spending in these last days of the election campaign for whatever their internal focus groups indicate is the most popular thing to spend it on. Speaking to the media this morning from Canberra, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and Finance Minister Simon Birmingham put forward their plan to make sure...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Australian Bolshevik Channel has been forced to defend itself again today, this time from the hand that feeds it. On the eve of the most important election in recent memory, popular news and current affairs programme, Four Corners, is set to screen an episode entitled "Inside Morrison's Death Cult Church" which has attracted criticism...