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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Today and tomorrow, it's set to be an absolute scorcher in South Australia. Boring! But one summer festival in Tasmania kicks off tomorrow and it's poised to set the night sky alight across the island state. The Museum of Old and New Art's (MONA) annual Hot Mofo festival is set to start in Hobart tomorrow as temperatures...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The nightwatchman has taken another hit today, after the resignation of his family housekeeper. The traumatised public servant is believed to have handed in her two weeks notice this morning after discovering a stash of adult magazines featuring the 18th-century explorer Captain Cook, under the Prime Ministers bed. This comes after the Prime Minister has faced criticism for his...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT One Northern Rivers online Bali-made jewellery retailer has today been forced to admit to decanting supermarket-brand hand soap into empty luxury skin care bottles. The controversial practice, known locally as Aesiphoning, is considered to be an ultimate taboo in the region, which is mostly made up of elite Sydney and Melbourne expats who don't really need to work a...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A local 19-year-old, who intends on spending the next four years arguing about whether or not the 100 or so other people that carry student union memberships should be entitled to discounted Subway sandwiches, appears to think that his obnoxious approach to insular university lawn debates is enough to make him appear interesting. UQ student, Jeremy Wybother, who...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact "Is this supposed to impress me?" he asked nobody in particular. "Snow? I'd be on a bucks in Saudi Arabia!" Gently rocking in the breeze with a dozen name-brand party pies slowly leaving his stomach, Sam Pearson slumped back in his hammock and laughed softly to himself. He'd just flicked through his Instagram stories for the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A Melbourne dad who is already flogging his sons through two seperate pre-seasons for both school and club Aussie rules squads has today turned his attention to his daughter. 33-year-old Albert Park barely saw regional representative honours in his 20-years-worth of footballing efforts, but that hasn't stopped him from chasing the dream through his kids. This comes as the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Friend of the Prime Minister, Warren Mundine, is the Liberal's candidate for the Federal Division of Gilmore at this year's election, and many in the party are calling it 'the bedshit to end all bedshits.' Despite Mundine not having Liberal Party membership until this week, Scott Morrison reportedly handpicked him to make sure the Coalition...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT As American continue to debate what actually happened during the videotaped encounter between a Native American man and a group of high school boys wearing “Make America Great Again” hats outside the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, the rest of the world is wondering what kind of loser teenagers would even attend a Christian rally in the first place. It...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Musician Alex Lloyd, once touted by Rolling Stone magazine as Australia's spiritual answer to Junior Kimbrough, has announced today his tell-all autobiography will be released this year - just in time for Mothers' Day. The soulful Virgo is in town to promote the book and he caught up with The Advocate's entertainment reporter, Bernice Twisp. ...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Scott Morrison has today responded to claims that he has confused Matthew Flinders with Captain Cook in about six different press conferences over the last week, by announcing a new tribute to the first white man that wasn't Dutch to discover Australia. "Flinders, Cook, First Fleet, same shit " said Morrison. "You know what I mean... Anyway. New idea." "We...