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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact At the conclusion of the Australian Civil War in 2055, the Bundaberg Trials were conducted in part with the cooperation between the Free Australian State, their allies and the UN International Court of Justice. The conflict, which began in 2049 when the 89-year-old West Australian President Troy Buswell ordered the extra-judicial killing of Eastern loyalists...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The former Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton is packing up his old office this afternoon as he prepares to move much further down the hall to the Defence Minister's relative shoebox. Dutton was moved out of the Home Affairs portfolio today by Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who re-jigged his Cabinet to reflect a "more modern"...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Federal Energy Minister Angus Taylor has asked the local youths who keep peeling the 'G' off his Goulburn electoral office signage to please stop as it's costing the taxpayer and wasting police resources. Speaking to The Advocate today, Taylor said it had gotten to the point where he had to get the media involved. "I don't...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Opposition Leader had three goes at getting a zinger soundbite sounding right this morning before asking the journalists there if he could pretty please have one more go at it. Speaking today at the retirement party of Labor Member Chris Hayes, who's leaving behind a safe seat in south-west Sydney, Anthony Albanese took the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Prime Minister has gone on Ray Hadley's show on 2GB this morning to play some political tee-ball after a day from hell yesterday that saw Scott Morrison outed as the right-place-right-time seat-filler he has always been. Ray, who is widely listened to by women around the country, spent most of their cosy chit chat...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A Betoota Heights handbag told this 'left-leaning' newspaper this morning that he's currently finding it very difficult to defend the actions of his beloved Federal Government while maintaining the respect of his family and 'so-called' friends. Mark Heaster, who despite trying his hardest, was not the breadwinner of his family. That alone is enough to...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Friend to women and New South Wales Police Commissioner Michael "Mick" Fuller has shrugged off criticism of his sexual consent app and today floated the idea of having a statutory declaration signed by two parties in the presence of a Justice of the Peace (JP) before any sexual contact. "The JP would then stay...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A largely self-made French Quarter woman told The Advocate this afternoon that her husband was under the impression who was going to get their reproductive organs decommissioned was up for discussion. Diane Staple, the founding principal agent at Staple & Co Buyers And Estates, recounted a weekend discussion with her artist husband Martin who expressed...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A local man who supports the monarchy in this country, and the concept in general, has discovered today that instead of a brain, he has nothing but white dog shit inside of his head. If you ask Michael Frank Pearson about this ongoing specatle with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, he'd say that they've...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact One of our town's future leaders has learned this week that perhaps he can't actually go through life and do whatever he wants, something which terrifies him. A new dawn is casting a bright glow upon Whooton School fourth-former Luke Rhose-Smith's world, he says. "If this week has taught me anything, it's that I...