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WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet Reporter | Contact The Catalan Independence Movement drastically changed this morning as bombshell revelations came to light. The separatist movement which has long sought to break away from the Kingdom of Spain, has this morning publicly called for the whole thing to be forgotten. Only days after huge clashes between around 700,000 Catalans and police took place, the President of Catalonia Carles...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Not even a week after Donald Trump dedicated his President's Cup golfing trophy to the victims of Hurricanes in Puerto Rico, the most powerful political figure in the free world has joined his Republican colleagues in sending condolences to the victims of the largest mass-shooting in the history of the United States of America. It is believed the airdrop...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The 511,000 elected officials across America have once again failed to confront America's violent gun problem as well as a half-drunk Australian comedian did in a stand-up routine four years, and roughly 2000 massacres ago. Jim Jefferies, who's dad is a proud Western Queenslander, rose to fame in 2014 with his iconic 'Australian vs American Gun Control' skit - which...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A card-carrying member of the National Rifle Association has today refused to acknowledge that the horrific mass-shooting in Las Vegas overnight might have been prevented with even the slightest form of gun control legislation. Joe Siggspack (66) has instead has implored his fellow law-abiding American gun-owners to make sure they too are armed next time someone starts indiscriminately firing...

RACHAEL GREGORY | Local News | Contact Parking himself in front of the television this morning, local bar worker Michael Donahue told The Advocate that the 24-hour news channel he's currently watching is trying - and succeeding to scare him. Though he couldn't articulate just what is making him anxious, the 29-year-old said that he just feels uneasy and worried after...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT HR Manager Cynthia Nelson, has dealt with various trials and tribulations in her thirty two years. Yet, it was not her recent end to a five year marriage that turned her to therapy, but her sudden and lingering attraction to British actor Benedict Cumberbatch. “I don’t get it,” she confessed “He looks like his own wax model at Madame...

NATHAN HEMSWORTH | Los Angeles | Contact American adult entertainment publisher Hugh Hefner has died aged 91 today in Los Angeles. The Playboy founder died of natural causes earlier this morning at the Playboy Mansion near Beverly Hills, surrounded by family and close friends. Reaction to the publishing mogul's death has been felt around the world, with people from all walks of life from all over...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact After spending most of the yesterday afternoon browsing the many news websites on offer around the world, Dennis Mignon was convinced the world was going to end. A nuclear holocaust, he thought, was going to turn him into ash while he slept last night. But alas, much to his own horror, the 27-year-old legal professional woke...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Donald Trump has taken to Twitter to berate American basketball superstar Lebron James, following an online spat that saw James has lash out at the President for trying to "divide us as people" - as he defended the NFL players who dropped to one knee during the national anthem. Donald Trump has said that while he acknowledges Lebron James' natural...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A 'homesick' local woman living on the other side of the world received a care package from her parents earlier this week that contained a collection of Australian foods she never really ate when she lived here. Originally of Frogstomp Circuit in South Betoota, Angie Walnut made the move over to London in February after...