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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A Betoota Heights leasing agent is currently on the hunt for a new pair of snazzy work shoes that won't break the bank. Because Michael Roland doesn't work in a bank, he works in commercial real estate and this is his first year out of real estate school so spending $650 on a pair of...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact This morning, not long after he woke up, Jake Wright was greeted with a large black stool. "So I did what anyone does, I googled my symptoms and waited for them to tell me how I was going to die," he told The Advocate this morning. "And it didn't disappoint." Jake explained that a simple infographic he...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Prime Minister has finally been able to put his feet up this afternoon in our nation's Prosperous West this afternoon and enjoy a pint of Guinness to celebrate St Patrick's Day. "It's a great day for the British and the Commonwealth in general," Scott Morrison said in Perth. "And this is such a great beer...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact An exciting new dinner party game is sweeping our cosmopolitan desert community at the moment and it's something everybody should try, says the game's inventor. Sick and tired of hearing his friends and family discuss the property market, Damien Pooley excused himself from a dinner party he was hosting one night and went into the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact For those who can afford to fly in the front of the plane, and not eat food that was prepared in 2009 then snap-frozen only to be reheated 14 years later at 40000 feet, the launch of fabled Sydney chef Neil Perry's new in-flight menu on Qantas was met with medium to large fanfare...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact One local man has been watching the news and according to him, none of it is good. Speaking to The Advocate today about whether we as a species are on borrowed time, Derek Sun said the biggest worry he has is what's going to happen to the small amount of wealth he's accured over his...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A Betoota Heights man who booted the side mirrors off Australian selector George Bailey's BMW earlier this year for not picking Queensland wrist-spinner Mitchell Swepson in the first Test against Pakistan says he feels vindicated but largely sorry today for his targeted act of criminal damage. Dale Moke said he threatened to travel to Brisbane...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A French Quarter motorist that's constantly one major breakdown away from bankruptcy has apologised to his silver 1992 BMW 320i before feeding it a dirty big tank of E10 petrol. Bill Carmichael's mechanic told him to only put premium in it, for obvious reasons. It's a German car that's used to the finer things in...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A young man from our town's French Quarter thought he was about to board the Camelier Express last night in Roma Street but instead, a person with a clipboard told him to follow the exits to the coach service. "Oh man," said Dale Stucky, who flew down to Brisbane a few days ago to help...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact People in the western world's appendix can smell the freshly-mowed lawns of Eastern Australia today after weeks and weeks of rain prevented the cathartic chore from taking place. The smell of freshly cut grass has forced many citizens of the inferior North Island of New Zealand to stay inside as they're more used to the...