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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Queensland Maroon's secret weapon, Bradley Charles Stubbs AKA "The Coach Whisperer" is today packing up his cardboard box and moving back to Canberra. This follows last night's tightly contest Origin decider loss to Freddy Fittler's 'Barefoot Blues' - one of only two black marks on the legacy of Australia's most prominent, and only coach whisperer. In an era where...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet |CONTACT A young Republic of Sydney local has opened up to The Advocate this morning about the traumatic experience he went through last night. The 28-year-old Sales and Marketing Consulting Representative, unfortunately, missed one of the greatest moments in NSW State of Origin History last night after the pub he was drinking in closed before the final siren. As a...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The red-faced goon who moonlights as the Mayor of our town has expressed shock at the news today that a large parcel of land on the town's southern outskirts earmarked for development is owned by his wife. Councillor Keith Carton, who's been Mayor of our cosmopolitan desert community for nearly two decades, went on...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact One of our town's largest media companies has thrown caution to the wind this afternoon as they paid a freelancer's invoice on time. When designer Max Steerman sat down with The Advocate this afternoon in the French Quarter cafe he calls an office, he said he didn't even have to send a follow up email...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A happy-go-lucky dirt farmer's son on the Betoota City Limits spent the morning hooning around the top paddocks, leaving what he assumes were invisible tracks in his wake. Blake Welshbrook, 16, woke up this morning and decided he didn't want to go to school. With many jobs to do around the farm, his mother just...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A locally-popular breeding pair of Baby Boomers have broken their silence this morning after selling one of their investment properties at a loss over the weekend. John and Diana Williams-Creswell have worked hard to amass a large portfolio of properties around town. They've saved, begged and borrowed. The sexagenarians told The Advocate that they...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact To be systematically loathed by everyone from farmers to townsfolk to the green-left elite is an achievement in its own right. The Murray-Darling Basin Ministerial Council and their gross mismanagement of the economic and environmental systems within the Murray-Darling Basin were on display last night on Four Corners, the ABC's most popular witch hunt programme. It...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Marlboro's parent company, Altria, one of the planet’s largest cigarette makers, made a US$13b cash investment in JUUL late last year that has caused the vape maker to shift its tack somewhat this year. The e-cigarette maker, who grew from largely anti-tobacco beginnings, has since revived Marlboro's popular 'Marlboro Man' advertising campaign from the halcyon...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The increasingly cowboy operation of the National Broadband Network has today hit new heights in Betoota's French Quarter, as a 17-year-old begins jackhammering through the brick exterior of a 3-bedroom townhouse. Benji Biltong, Betoota Heights, says his mates who are still in school are jealous as. Because no one their age can dream of $2000 per week after tax. "Good...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact "I'm allowed to have a black coffee and water," he said. "Nothing else." Dennis Park spent this morning walking our reporter through the leafless remains of Machattie Park in our town's bustling Old City District, where he explained 'intermittent fasting' or skipping breakfast as he describes it. It's the latest diet trend to reach the far-southwest, following...