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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...

EDITORIAL To the Editor, I have been a faithful reader of The Betoota Advocate for 25 years now and in that time, I have enjoyed the fiercely independent and unbiased coverage of local issues. However, in recent months, I have noticed that the editorial content of your newspaper has become quite biased and that offends me, as a reader. It is pertinent...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Opposition leader Anthony Albanese is in the tropics today and it seems, by his own admission, that he's joining the growing number of Australians who just want a bit of respite from this timid election campaign. After hosting a press conference at a Whitsunday resort, Albo glanced over at the resort's swim-up bar and make...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | Contact Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is making headlines for the wrong reasons this week after internet sleuths uncovered a series of anti-police tweets the outlaw made back in 1875. Known around the country as the inspiration for woeful tattoos, rear window stickers, and political careers, Kelly enjoys status as a folk hero which may or may...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Deputy Prime Minister returned home yesterday to find a kangaroo swimming in his pool, which he was displeased about. "Get the hell out of my damn pool!" shouted Barnaby Joyce. "I'm calling the fucking cops." This is just the latest indignity that Mr Joyce has suffered, he tells The Advocate. Just last week, he had to fish...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A French Quarter man has been sick for nearly a month and despite dozens of rapid antigen tests and a handful id PCR tests, all the results have come back negative for the Pangolin's Revenge. That sent a chill down Damien Huntley's spine because whatever he has, is way worse than his dance with the...