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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...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A city worker has told The Advocate today in the smoking area of the Gelded Gorilla Inn down the French Quarter that he's not sure if he should be doing an absolute number on himself with the boys tonight or be tucked up alone in his studio apartment doom-scrolling Twitter until 3 in the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Around the country, people are complaining that Qantas is charging whatever the hell they want for a ticket. Some have even shown proof online that the airline is actively price gouging the blue Jesus out of Australians. Yet the airline's boss, Alan Joyce, has told those who have taken umbrage at his business practices are...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The robots who drive the Sydney Metro Trains are set to join their homo sapien brothers who drive real trains in demonstrating against the NSW Government next week. Earlier this week in Sydney, the nation's largest open-air sewer, a representative from the Driverless Train Union of Australia, Mr XR4AE, spoke to the media about why...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A French Quarter city worker has told this masthead that he's always had a bad feeling about one of his coworkers, that he was either into some really heavy plastic bedsheet type stuff or something worthy of a public kinkshame. However, this afternoon around three, Dale Clarke saw Greg Boing wearing a St George Illawarra...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Federal Energy Minister Angus Taylor has decided to put claims made by dishevelled billionaire, Mike Cannon-Brookes, that renewable energy is cheaper than coal to the test during some free time this afternoon. There is a virtual city that Mr Taylor has been building on and off now for a few months in Sim City 3000....