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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has moved to include the Byron Bay area in the Queenslander border travel ban after learning all of Sydney is currently packed into the seaside town. Hoardes of white, well-healed Sydney yuppies have crammed themselves into Byron Bay in recent weeks which lead the Queensland Government to make the tough call. "I know...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has today announced the border bubble with New South Wales will expand to include the entire Southern state except for Greater Sydney. From 1am on Tuesday November 3, residents in regional NSW will be able to travel to Queensland without facing restrictions, but people from Sydney's 32 local government areas will still be required to...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT The Federal Government has today slammed the banking sector for once again, pushing their left-wing agenda down regular Aussie's throats. David Littleproud the Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management (three things directly and severely impacted by the effects of climate change) has accused ANZ of 'virtue signalling' for taking steps out of coal. Under the bank's new...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact There is a lot in common between Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels and media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, according to one local student. He joins our reporter in the quadrangle of South Betoota Polytechnic University. After showing The Advocate around the Overell School of Journalism, which boasts this masthead's editor as an alumnus. Gavin Pooley regards...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Kevin Rudd's suspicious absence from public life in 2012 is subject to an investigation by The Australian newspaper after news surfaced this week of some alleged dirty dealings. The Daily Telegraph claimed today that a think tank related to Mr Rudd somehow received funds from deceased pedophile financier Jeffery Epstien - which is something Kevin...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Rugby Australia has summoned the king marketing pigeon to the CEO's office this morning after learning there are still thousands of tickets left on sale for Saturday night's do-or-die Bledisloe Match in Sydney. Though he's been handed a basket case that's devoid of any real money or direction, interim RA CEO Rob Clarke has demanded...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Despite being locked down for six months, Cricket Australia has given the Melbourne Cricket Ground and their staff the chance to drop in another unspectacular pitch in the ground for the Boxing Day Test. But if you ask Melbourne, they're just grateful they have the chance to fuck the Boxing Day Test up for the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT About 16,200 retail stores, 5800 hospitality and 1000 beauty salons and 800 pubs have today re-opened their doors as Melbourne lifts it's brutal 115-day lockdown. Restaurants have filled four weeks worth of bookings in a day, and parks are full of socially distanced revellers as excited residents rush to embrace an easing of restrictions, which now allows them to leave...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The only way this country is going to shake this economic funk off is by building big things. That's the message today from the Prime Minister, who said over the next generation or two, the nation will be undergoing "renovations and extentions" - something that should inject hundreds of billions back into the economy. "We will...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Melbourne’s brutal 16th lockdown has come to an end, with retail and hospitality businesses now able to reopen and families reuniting after months of curfews and bans on travelling more than 5km away from home. Restaurants, cafes, pubs and retail stores were allowed to return to normal trading hours from 11.59 pm on last night, with some taking bookings...