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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Quiet Australians of our humbled inland port city have shared news that they're simply getting on with their lives and that they're not letting political games interfere with their own self-controlled destiny. These developments are in-line with the Federal Government's messaging, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison telling Sydney radio this morning that most people...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The defacto leader of the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Western Australia has admitted for the first time today that he simply cannot go on forever shooting opponents of his hard border policy with an anti-aircraft gun. For nearly two years now, those critical of Mark McGowan's DPRWA hard border have come face to face...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Opposition leader Anthony Albanese has reportedly dropped the idea of playing the sousaphone on 60 Minutes this week after Scott Morrison received widespread backlash for playing the ukelele in a tasteless and amateur way. It's commonly known among the depraved people who follow federal politics that Mr Albanese enjoys his music but what is not...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A Betoota Heights man who has spent far too much of his life on a bus has admitted to The Advocate today that while he enjoys the thrift benefits that come with being a bachelor on a day like today, this year might be the last. Dennis Cormorant spoke a bit too candidly to our...

IMRAN GASHKORI | Sports | Contact A French Quarter business consultancy firm held a SuperBowl Party today to celebrate the sport than only the company's US overlords and local manager seem to follow. But the crew down at McKinsey & Company Betoota got into the spirit, with various teams being asked to bring a plate (or bowl) of food to the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The former New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian is going to work for Optus, which has been met with a patchy reception from shareholders and ICAC investigators alike. Reception has been patchy, especially in regional areas that didn't get many grants because they're held by the Shooters, Fishers, Bong Smokers and Farmers Party or Labor....

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Defence Minister popped his headphones on this morning because there's only so much time left before the election to completely and utter destabilise the government. Peter Dutton was seen walking the halls of Parliament overnight and in the morning listening to his Joel Turner & The Modern Day Poets megamix at an anti-social level. It's...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Our Bloke-In-Chief has had a pretty rough day and like nearly every red-blooded working man, that means a trip to the pub is in order. Telling his own Chief-Of-Staff that he was only going for one, a Hahn Light Shandie with a dash of red cordial, Scott Morrison ran into the last bloke he wanted...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact For the last few weeks, the government has been trying to pass legislation that will either make discrimination easier to do to gay and transgender people or not, nobody really knows. But what the taxpayer has come to learn this afternoon is that the entire exercise was a complete and utter waste of everyone's time...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | CONTACTOnline gambling company Sportsbet has today been fined a staggering $2.5 million, after the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) found them guilty of sending more than 150,000 text messages to punters, who were unable to unsubscribe. Sportsbet also has to cough up another $1.2 million to anyone who made bets after receiving the unwanted...