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12 May, 2015. 14:35 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected]   The 2014 Budget's biggest hitter, the concept of forcing young people without a job to wait six months before they could receive benefits, has failed to pass the Senate and has triggered outcry from social services groups. It appears that this, among many other things, may have been the deciding factor surrounding Joe Hockey insisting...

12 May, 2015. 11:55 IMRAN GASHKORI | Sports | [email protected]vocate.com Nick Cummins has opened up The Advocate today, revealing the hard work behind his seemingly off-the-cuff colloquial Aussie proverbs. On Saturday night, the on-again, off-again Western Australian rugby cult-hero once again delivered yet another memorable "Aussie one-liner" in a post-match interview, after the Western Force’s victory over the NSW Waratahs. Nick Cummins, a product of...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A bloke you kind of knew in high school, and haven't had much to do with since, has grown an edgy chin strap - confirms Facebook. The prominent Christian youth leader and Foo Fighters enthusiast says he now feels confident in his youthfulness - thanks to a daring yet revolutionary style of beard. "It's like, the rest of the kids...

11 May, 2015. 11:41 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact SCOTT MORRISON is emerging as the new Liberal pin-up boy, just months after being accused of violating human rights by the United Nations. The minister for social services has become the face of a new Coalition advertising campaign which markets the sprightly 46-year-old as a "softer and more approachable" politician, as opposed to...

7 May, 2015. 11:55 IMRAN GASHKORI | Sports | [email protected] NRL's most notorious current player, Greg Bird has this week joined a notorious list of NRL record-breakers. The top 5 most suspended players in the game. John Hopoate -- 45 weeks Luke O'Donnell/Craig Smith -- 32 weeks Greg Bird -- 29 weeks Danny Williams -- 28 weeks Jason Stevens/Adrian Morley -- 26 weeks The Gold Coast psychopath was suspended...

8 May, 2015. 10:17 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact OVER A hundred bottles of XXXX Bitter have been uncovered by school children at the Brisbane City Botanical Gardens during a class excursion. Archaeologists from the University of Queensland (UQ) have been called in to survey the site and to establish if anything found has historical significance. Professor Virginia Smith from UQ says...

7 May, 2015. 17:30 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact NEW SOUTH WALES hinge-voter MP Fred Nile is proposing new laws that would raise the legal drinking age, ban Islamic dress and force women who are thinking about terminating a problem pregnancy witness what they're about to remove on an ultrasound. The Christian Democratic Party (CDP) leader is planning to put the legislation before the NSW Upper...

7 May, 2015. 10:55 CLANCY OVERELL| Editor | Contact The controversial SBS documentary Struggle Street has received a mixed reaction from viewers after its first broadcast, with many sympathising with the show's subjects. Struggle Street follows the lives of local "battlers" in Mount Druitt, in Sydney's west, and has prompted outcry from residents over what they say is the program's unflattering depiction of...

6 May, 2015. 10:40 CLANCY OVERELL| Editor | Contact Treasurer Joe Hockey and Prime Minister Tony Abbott, two proud old boys of the Sydney University Football Club, sat together for a live photo-op in Canberra yesterday.  They had one thing to discuss with each other, in front of a scrum of cameramen, The Budget 2015. Things were tense as the PM critiqued Joe Hockey's...

5 May, 2015. 17:06 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact REPORTERS FROM CHANNEL 9 have allegedly been forced to wear protective vests and helmets when reporting on stories from parts of Western Sydney. After witnessing the appalling conditions in Mt Druitt, producers from Australia's most watched news service have said "enough is enough". While journalists covering conflicts for the network have always been encouraged...