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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT US President Donald Trump has warned that Hurricane Maria "will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen" if she continues to threaten the United States. In his first address to the United Nations, Trump derided the series of Hurricanes that have been devastating the Caribbean and Southern states of the US. "People say that this...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Dear Leader of The Democratic Republic Of Korea has returned fire at US President Donald Trump after the New Yorker began referring to him as 'Rocket Man' earlier this week. Kim Jong-Un performed Elton John's 1971 classic hit 'Tiny Dancer' to a sold-out crowd last night in Pyongyang, where he took the opportunity to call out Mr Trump...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un has shot another swathe of high-ranking party officials today after yet another intercontinental ballistic missile failed to hit its target. Peter Desmond, from a shadowy government department that doesn't officially exist, told The Advocate that up to seven senior members of the Workers' Party of Korea were taken out the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Though English is her only language and she hasn't ridden a bicycle since she was seven, a spritely South Betootanese woman has taken the plunge and moved to the capital of world culture - Berlin. But one thing that wasn't in the tourist brochures, that wasn't in the Lonely Planet guide, was the fact that...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Two supporting female characters in a film set in an era where women aren't encouraged to speak openly in front of men have just shared secret information while dressing each other, it has been confirmed. The crucial dialogue shared between the two women, which has proven pivotal to the plot, has been offered nonchalantly by one of the characters...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A worried Bob Katter has phoned North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un this afternoon to make sure he doesn't plan on nuking Cloncurry any time soon after many of his local constituents raised their concerns overnight. The conversation, said to have lasted close to an hour, concluded with Kim promising Mr Katter than there are...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The President of the United States has taken a security briefing this morning surrounding North Korean nuclear weapons test over the weekend from a local handbag designer who also moonlights as a chief security consultant to the President. Ivanka Trump, daughter of President Donald Trump, told her father that now is the time to strike as the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT As Hurricane Harvey makes it way through the east coast of Texas and into the heartland, local neo-nazis are being criticised for not defending their rich Southern Heritage by hiding away in emergency shelter while confederate statues endure the biggest natural disaster to ever hit the region. The state of Texas has a population of 27 million people, more than...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Office of the President has released a statement earlier today that declared the images of President Trump looking directly at this week's solar eclipse to be doctored fakes. Donald Trump's team made the explosive allegations during a Washington press conference where they released the unaltered images that showed the president wearing protective eyewear. "Those images are not authentic, they...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Intern Reporter | Contact A Betootan engineering student on his first overseas trip (excluding Bali) is acting like he has just shown the European country of Greece how to party. The local legend at the Betoota University of Technology (BUT) is finishing up a 21 day Contiki tour of Europe and told The Advocate that it has been...