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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A survey distributed and conducted by Baiame Consolidated Media, The Advocate's owners, to local newspaper editors and owners has found that in 2018, it's become increasingly difficult to produce engaging and high-quality April Fools Day content. Five of the seven newspaper editors in the Betoota Newspaper Editors' Guild responded to the survey highlighted that the relationship...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Only one person knows why Mike Guthrie's phone has been ringing off the hook this afternoon - and he's not about to reveal himself. At least not to Mike. Speaking candidly to The Advocate, one of Mike's 'friends' told our reporter that the reason why his phone has been ringing non-stop since lunchtime is that he's put an ad up...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact "You know, more than half a million people have been killed since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011," said Darren Lehmann. "Mate, that's not even the start of it. The government of President Bashar al-Assad responded to Arab Spring protests with a bloody crackdown that's spiralled into a full-blown civil war." Peter Handsome sat there in silence, staring out...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT Although Jocelyn Arndt (21) used reasonably ambiguous language when questioning her housemates over social media today, she has told The Advocate that she is fully aware who ‘the milk theft culprit’ is. “Oh yeah, I one hundred percent know it was who drank my milk,” said the share tenant in an old French Quarter house. Arndt’s statement to The...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact "We should do a podcast, guys," he said, hoping nobody would take it seriously. But seriously they did. Today heralds the release of 'The Drop Zone with John, Paul, Greg and Fork' - a new podcast that promises to offer an in-depth and unique insight into nothing in particular. Recorded in the living room of Fork's French Quarter sharehouse, the first...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Each morning at the Betoota Polytechnic Medical School (BPMS), the students there stand at attention before a lifesize photograph of The Hon Greg Hunt MP, Minister For Health - and recite the Med Students' Creed: This is my stethoscope. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My stethoscope is my best friend. It is my life. I must master...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | Contact It has been revealed that stay-at-home interior designers might have a bit more weight to their opinion than you once thought, with social media sharing platform Pinterest now giving out degrees in interior design. Pinterest launched in in March 2010 as a way for founder Bill Silbermann to get his wife to redesign their kitchen without him having to do anything....

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact "We don't get a real winter in this country," explained Ben Ticehurst, like our reporter wasn't already aware of that. "But that doesn't mean we can't pretend." The visiting Sydneysider spent this morning struggling to park his Pajero at a 45-degree angle on Daroo Street while his partner, Ainara Boxford, turned her nose up at every...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Riley Martin smiled to himself and relished in his own sense of self-worth; swinging by his wrist on the D45 Bus to the French Quarter this morning. He'd just spied another commuter on the bus bobbing his head along to a Red Hot Chili Peppers track. "What a dumb cunt," he thought to himself. The 27-year-old post-graduate barista...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Taxpayer-funded comedian Tom Ballard says he's prepared to call his personal hero Bob Brown a 'cunt' live on air to appease conservatives. The ABC's Tonightly host needs to appease conservatives after his popular programme labelled a Batman byelection candidate from the Australian Conservatives a 'cunt' during a show earlier this week. "The phone's been ringing off the...