The Nation

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT After a big day on the cans, a proud Brisbane man has drawn a line in the sand, and refused to lie about who he is anymore. Dominic Hawthorne (31), a Moorooka-based corporate AGM planner has decided he's sick of pretending to be someone else, and has made of point of telling the truth to a bouncer in Fortitude...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Known around the area for his quiet, simple and stoic disposition, Micheal Rex made a classic mistake many first-year station hands make this afternoon - he got a lift back to the homestead with the chopper pilot moments after telling him it was his first time up in one. The 19-year-old said he'd never been so scared in his...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT As the days stretch out and the heats sets in, many Australians look forward to the warm and enticing embrace of the summer down under. For lead singer of Thirsty Merc, Rai Thistlethwayte, the seasonal excitement of the average Aussie pales in comparison to his. “Heh heh heh, royalty season is on the way! December first can’t come...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Sporting a clinking backpack and a quiet disposition that makes eye contact all but impossible, a local 13-year-old boy has flown his Betoota Heights nest for the first time to drink in the park with his closest buddies. Francis Dollarhyde, son of a prominent orthopaedic surgeon and a well-liked early childhood educator, asked the trolley...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A recent report by the Australian Medical Association has found that no one is required to give a third 'bless you' if they are in the presence of someone who can't get their shit together and go outside. "Three sneezes, particularly three really loud sneezes, is just too much pressure to put on those in your immediate presence" says...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Receiving the homebrewing kit for his birthday in August, one local waterproofer turned brewmaster got to sample his first batch this today after weeks of toil. And the results are in: it's the best beer he's ever tasted. Linden Monk took time out of his busy afternoon to talk to The Advocate about the process, sacrifice and personal hardship that...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A man waking from a big Thursday night wandered the streets of the French Quarter this morning, nervous because he didn't know where he was. "I thought I was in Betoota Ponds, all the street signs were in Betootanese Creole," he said. Our reporter ran into him in Des Jardin du Putain this morning where our...

EFFIE BATEMAN | BRISBANE | CONTACT A local woman has cemented her status as office pariah today after she was seen taking single bites off multiple hot wings. It’s alleged the incident occurred during the annual office potluck, which should have been a good opportunity for workmates to get to know each other a glass of wine, and mutual love of cob loaf. However, for account coordinator Lynn...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The lukewarm success that is SAS Australia is coming to an end tonight as the final celebrities left learn if they're tough enough to join the nation's peak group of soldiers. However, one family favourite will not be joining them tonight after last night refusing to complete the show's penultimate challenge. "I am not going to...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT A local aspiring jock who never quite reached the heights of local first-grade footy has today given his take on the war crimes in Afghanistan. Local accountant Kerry Roberts, who runs an army-style boot camp on Friday mornings and did 18 months in the Army Reserves explained that all these 'sheep' just don't get it. "Yeah, it's so fucking...