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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Move over Fiji! Australia is now the home of Oceania's most unstable government, according to the International Monetary Fund. The international financial institution explained to The Advocate this morning that after close to a decade of political in-fighting for the sole purpose of personal gain, repeated coups and minority governments, the planet has grown weary of our island home. "The last...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Australia's peak scientific body concluded their investigation into which bush sporting was the toughest earlier this month, leaving many questioning the study's findings. At a press conference this morning, a spokesman from the CSIRO said that after a decade-long taxpayer-funded investigation, they were able to prove that AFL had the toughest bush competition, followed by rugby league, then cricket, then...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Elon Musk's proposal to fix the South Australian power market was only announced on Thurday morning, but the first stages of development for the "world's biggest lithium ion battery" are already visible in the state's rural mid-north, it has been confirmed. Set to be built by Tesla and French company Neoen, it appears the infrastructure project is already well...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Popular entrepreneur Elon Musk revealed his plans to partner with the South Australian government to build the world's largest lithium-ion battery to secure the state's power going into the future. The Telsa founder also agreed to build the project within 100 days or else it's free. However, the Turnbull Government has urged Musk to consider using a more 'proven' form...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Betoota real estate analyst, Benjamin Inness, is currently suppressing his natural urges to pass the solid metabolic waste from his digestive tract through his anus. The 32-year-old former state representative cricketer is rummaging through his working space, backpack and pockets in a desperate search for his iPhone. With a near-caesarian-level Bondi cigar knocking on the door, Benji is stubbornly holding the gate shut until he...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A group of foreign property investors visiting Australia say they quite like the affordable, understated use of blue lights outside inner-city apartment buildings. Robbie* (name-changed), who represents one of the 13,823,233 people that make up his home country's richest one percent, says that buying up metropolitan properties and forcing Australian families to live 100 kilometres from...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A recent graduate of North Betoota's exclusive St Gretel's School for Girls revealed to The Advocate last night during a candid rosé binge that she's 'basically unable' to post an image of her family without referring to them in Italian - despite having no genetic connection to the boot-shaped peninsula of culinary ecstasy. Miley Doherty, 19, said that every...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT With the news that the Murdoch family have launched a joint takeover bid for Network Ten, details have been released about where the television station is where to sit within the media families extensive stable. "We are thinking of providing Australian media consumers with an alternative to the dominant left-wing bias they are exposed to through the likes of Waleed...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Melbourne residents loitering outside iconic Melbourne foot malls have been surprised to see the new 'gun-bollards' that had been installed overnight as part of Victoria's increased security measures.  The Age reported that Melbourne city has taken on a new approach to anti-terrorism and anti-mental-health-episode safety measures with Soviet Union-inspired street sentry cannons were strategically placed around the city's major...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A 30-year-old graphic designer who hasn't left his edgy inner-city suburb since his first year of University over eight years ago - can today take pride in the fact that he is very much in touch with the common man. After tuning into to the brutal 45-minute WBO welterweight title fight between legendary Fillopino boxer Manny Pacqiauo and...