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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact State and territory leaders around the country have been given the responsibility today to reopen the pubs. The Advocate was given rare access into how the system would work after witnessing it first hand in the Northern Territory today. It can take State Premiers and Chief Ministers just minutes to re-open the pubs. Here’s how...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact There's only two places on this hellrock where Coca-Cola isn't the highest selling beverage. Scotland, where some orange-flavoured rev-up juice is the best-seller and South Australia where iced coffee outsells everything else. But Scotland is in the throes of the virus right now, their IRN BRU as it's called, is offering Europe's Kiwis no protection. But in...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT Scott Morrison has raised a few eyebrows this morning and taken the spat with China to the next level. After a few days of tit for tat with the new world superpower who could potentially cripple our economy, the Prime Minister has today decided to turn up to a press conference wearing Mack Horton's famous Gold Medal. His...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact "If you squint hard enough, the River Torrens looks like the Hudson," she said. Sam Holland let out a litte sigh. "I guess Burnside is on the Upper East Side? What would be the Meatpacking District? I don't know, I've never been to the real MPD. Stepney? I don't really know." "Ah, Eden Hills is probably the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Byron Shire has given yuppies all over the country the green light to move into one of the nation's last hippie holdouts in an effort to improve the region's reputation around the nation. Mullumbimby, or The Mullum as it's known to locals, has been on the front pages of many newspapers since the COVID-19...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT As of Friday, New South Wales couples who do not live together will be able to visit each other at their respective homes. As part of the public health order released on March 30, the NSW Government declared non-compliance in social distancing measures could result in fines of up to $11,000 or six months in prison. Meaning dinner parties...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Greg Costigan has told our reporters today that he's put his right hand up, said 'Down there, Peter Tosh. Aisle 4 right at the end,' and laughed to himself about a dozen times today. The 41-year-old semi-retired author works at Bunnings when he's battling writer's block. And recently, he's been run off his feet at the...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT As the southern state of New South Wales breathes a sigh of relief ahead of the first weekend where people who aren't tradies get to see their mates, Premier Gladys Berejiklian has revealed how she made it happen. Speaking from the Developers Republic Of Sydney, where construction is reportedly through the roof at the moment, Berjiklian explained that...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has tried to tell us what to think of China again and blah blah yawn Kevin find another hill to die on. Today at some $2000-a-plate lunch at some fucking think tank lunch, Kevin said some things about China and how it's not as bad as the nation's Holden Racing...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Australians are, for some reason, shocked to learn a powerful media billionaire returning from a US ski trip earlier this month wasn't forced to spend 14 days in a hotel lockdown like the many thousandaires who were. Kerry Stokes, the Kerry Packer of Western Australia, was able to skip the compulsory two-week lockdown because he's...