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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The NSW Liberal Party has been dissolved and will come under the direct control of Prime Minister Scott Morrison and the state's premier Dominic Perrotett after months of factional infighting over who was getting preselected. At the heart of the issue, Immigration Minister Alex Hawke was due to be booted from his local branch because...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A Brisbane man who said he's given up waiting has told The Advocate that the side mirrors on Australian selector George Bailey's car are as good as gone if he doesn't pick leg-spinner Mitch Swepson in a Test over in Pakistan. In addition to that, Dale Moke went on to say he'd even jump on...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce said his war with the spicy cough was made much easier after his team of staffers slid a tray of nice brownies under the door. Speaking to this masthead today on the phone, Mr Joyce said he was feeling for Scott Morrison today as he enters the third and...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Opposition leader Anthony Albanese has turned heads in Brisbane today as hit the streets with plastic bags over his new sneakers as to not ruin them. As Albo spoke to punters on at Hardcastle Park in Hawthorne, a few Mud Army corporals asked him what the go was with his shoes. "Oh, they were $200, mate,"...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact With the world teetering on the brink of all out war and half the eastern seaboard underwater, Scott Morrison announced this morning that he has the spicy cough and needs to put his feet up for a week at home. While Scotty says he's working from home in a full capacity, the Deputy Prime Minister...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Billionaire Clive Palmer has brought great shame upon himself, his community and motor vehicle enthusiasts in general this afternoon by almost immediately driving Adolf Hitler's old drop-top Benzie into Sunshine Coast flood waters. Mr Clive purchased the historic vehicle yesterday and it arrived here in Australia in the early hours of the morning. It used...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A French Quarter architect has simply shrugged his shoulders and exercised his birthright to command a community serf to bring him some takeaway in exchange for a few dollars. With his little tummy rumbling, 49-year-old Martin Hester of Rue de Orto-Fellaitio looked out his window and down onto the street. It was still raining and...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Emergency crews have spoken today of driving their tinnies down the flood streets of Brisbane and seeing them lined on each side with over-insured VE Commodores from all over the country. There are Commodores from Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia and Queensland that are up to the roof racks in floodwater in suburbs such...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Prime Minister is in our state's sodden south-east corner this afternoon where he's taking a look at the Brisbane River and how full of water and shit it is. Scott Morrison's presence in Brisbane was only confirmed after a number of political opponents and media commentators questioned just wear in the bloody hell he...

KEITH T. DENNETT | New South | CONTACT Flying high above the clouds, away from the small town drama she’s left behind, Betoota Events Manager Chelsea Waters (26) is busy kickstarting her weekend of curated social media content. Soaring high on Jetstar BF825 Betoota to Melbourne (via Brisbane), Chelsea is meticulously framing up a photo of the plane's wing, as it...