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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been able to salvage the nation's reputation abroad once again - this time, with a late-night phone call to his Croatian counterpart in an effort to put this Novak Djokovic affair to bed. In a morning press conference in Canberra, Mr Morrison explained that the Croatian President Zoran Milanović was...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A primary producer from our town's fertile north left quite the impression on a French Quarter radiologist last Saturday night as the two enjoyed a bite to eat then a walk and talk. Drawing on his best material, cattle farmer Fergus Sterling told The Advocate that he often gets a good reaction telling the story...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A local city worker has taken time out of his busy week of being undervalued and overworked at some mid-tier domestic law firm to tell The Advocate that he went to a wedding the weekend before last and managed to not get the spicy cough that's going around. That's despite his best efforts, says Declan...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A senior public servant has made the decision to leave some very important work until Monday, taking his phone off the hook and putting the cricket on. Prime Minister Scott Morrison told The Advocate this afternoon via telephone that we would be his last official duty of the week. Despite it being 2:47pm on a Friday,...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A French Quarter man who lives in a garden apartment has bought himself a leaf blower to tidy the outside area because using a broom is "obviously too hard". Unbeknown to the little man, all of his neighbours go to sleep dreaming about putting him down. One of the unknown man's upstairs neighbours has spoken to...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A Perth man has told The Advocate the stolen Hobart Test today because there's no TV inside his traditional yurt. "It's not because I'm still a bit filthy at the east-centric Cricket Australia board taking the Test away from Perth because we take our biosecurity seriously," said Cannington man Klaas Baardwijk. "But yes, ever since the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Prime Minister has once again made changes to the way in which Australians deal with the spicy cough - this time, transport workers were given new guidelines. In order to ease the strain on the nation's supply chains, Scott Morrison announced that transport workers are no longer deemed to be close contacts unless they...

FR ROGER STEELE | Religious Affairs | Contact Special Counsel assisting the Morrison Government, Brian Houston, has yet to make a decision on tennis world number one Novak Djokovic's visa - something that has forced Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Immigration Minister Alex Hawke to kick the can down the road further today. Mr Houston, who used to moonlight as the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The defacto leader of the failed state of New South Wales has moved to assure people that despite nearly registering a hundred thousand cases of the hyper-infectious spicy cough in the past 24 hours, everything is fine. Premier Dominic Perrottet explained to journalists this morning in our nation's super expensive version of Mogadishu that this...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A French Quarter property investor is seeking a rental increase from one of his tenants this week as the world returns to something resembling the old world. In late 2019, Walter Butler's unrenovated townhouse on Rue Les Taudis was renting out for close to $700 a week. However, when the pandemic hit in March of 2020, swathes...