The Nation

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Prime Nightwatchman of Australia has quashed fears the female members of the Liberal Party are 'unhappy' by telling reporters this morning in Sydney that they've told him everything is 'fine'. Taking time out of his busy morning of walking up and down Cronulla Beach in a pair of riding boots, Scott Morrison fronted journalists...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A few short months ago, the denizens of our town's Old City District agencies and firms where drinking to success and celebration. From signing new clients to cherished employees cutting their lines loose from our safe harbour's dock and setting a course for the wild seas abroad - times were good. However, that was then. And since...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | Contact International Women’s Day has provided an opportunity for men, women and corporate Facebook accounts to take a moment to appreciate the women in their life as well as consider the gender imbalance that they are too tired to care about for the other 364 days of the year. Outpourings of support for women both notable and unsung have...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A prominent Betoota Heights accountant has thrown his hat in the political ring this morning by announcing he's won the Nationals preselection battle for the federal seat of Remienko. The current Member for Remienko, the independent Clive Overell, has been our cosmopolitan desert community's representative in the cold country for nearly a decade at, Lewis...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact An outspoken local jetski has been angered this Sunday morning because today marks the International Women's Day around the globe. The late model Honda R-12X from Betoota Heights took to social media to explain just what irked him about this Sunday the 8th of March and women in general: Probably going to get a call from...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The failed census of yesteryear recorded just one male named Jade in our bustling inland metropolis - and he is over gender neutral politics! It doesn't affect him but it still irks him somewhat that the majority has once again had to made concessions for a minority. Specifically, the 29-year-old convicted arsonist has taken offence to...

INGRID DOULTON | Television | Contact Forced yet again to give up the remote come 7:30pm, a local father has sat through Married At First Sight for the umpteenth time this year. Speaking candidly and cautiously to The Advocate this afternoon through the fence of his Betoota Heights display home's garden, Wal Beattie said he wants to know where 'they' find 'those'...

EExcerpt from Senator Derryn Hinch's interview with ERROL PARKER in The Advocate's weekend liftout, In The Lignum. When Derryn Hinch sat down with a preference whisperer back in 2014, he had a dream. That dream was to start his own crime fighting organisation, which was later realised after being elected to the Federal Red Room on his eponymous Justice Party ticket....

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact When Dale Poink goes for a flick off the Williams Avenue Wharf in Betoota Grove, anything that takes the bait is a dead fish swimming. Early this morning, our reporter observed the 41-year-old unhook a baby snapper the size of a DVD and throw it in a his bucket. Odd, The Advocate thought, but he...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact "Oh for Christ's sake!" "What in blue Jesus is that mark on my forehead? Why the hell didn't anybody tell me? Is this why people were staring at me in the food court?" "Fuck!" Walking to his car in a French Quarter back lane this morning, Mark Callander noticed a soccer ball wedged under the front axle...