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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Some in the industry say it's an impossibility but one local farmer's wife says she doesn't have a single item from popular homewares shop Jumbled in her Lake Betoota living room. Wendy Dollarhyde, who's in partnership with her husband Francis out at Greenbow Station via the Lake Betoota Development Road, said even she's surprised herself. Both...

EFFIE BATEMAN | BRISBANE| CONTACT If you were to look at Tegan Reynolds bedroom, you’d never have thought the clean and organised twenty-three year old had trouble throwing useless things out. Or that she severely doubted her technological abilities to the point where it ventured into Luddite territory. But that’s the only thing that can be gleaned from finding out the contents of one...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A 'woman of science' as had the subject of her Masters thesis explained back to her in the workplace today, prompting her to nod and smile and laugh a little bit to make the situation less awkward for the gentleman doing the explaining. Broadcaster Alan Jones spend the minutes immediately proceeding the filming of his...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT While pitiful to begin with, the Christmas decorations hanging in a French Quarter share house are a constant reminder to all five housemates that none of them can ever be assed to invest their own time into improving their living conditions. Subscribe to our Daily News Bulletin wherever you get your podcasts and stay up to speed on...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact For months now, the recent exodus of people from Australia's largest city has been blamed on the on-going Revenge of the Pangolin that's killed over a million people around the world. But a new study into the phenomenon has discovered that hypothesis to be incorrect. This new study, conducted by the Queensland Government, has found...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A local man who's still watching 3D movies on his living room television said he still lives in denial in other parts of life as well. Gavin Pooley, a baggage handler at the Remienko Memorial Aerodrome, has owned the 3D television since 2010 and to this day, the 34-year-old convicted arsonist said he watches things...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Prime Minister has been on the offensive this morning after Cricket Australia announced plans to postpone the Tour of South Africa indefinitely. Speaking to the media this morning in Canberra, Scott Morrison said Cricket Australia, the nation's peak cricketing body, to keep politics out of the game and focus on getting over to...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact When the bloke at Shannon's asked Damien 'Frogstomp' Oldman if he was really insuring his forest green 2003 Holden Zafira with them, the 45-year-old could only sigh and say he was. The local motoring enthusiast said that because of the over-inflated used car prices these days, he can only afford to drive a car like...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Member for New England Barnaby Joyce has told media this afternoon in Canberra that he reckons a bit of shaved rhino horn on toast is enough to cure the spicy cough. It's understood by The Advocate that Mr Joyce only made the bold claim to see if Michael McCormack, leader of the Nationals and...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact NewsCorp Australia has officially become the second taxpayer-funded broadcaster in the country after the Federal Government's latest cash injection pushed the state's ownership of the company over 51%. The overseas company and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) have been operating under the same business model now for at least a decade and this latest move...