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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Serial entrepreneur Elon Musk has teamed up with Anglo-Dutch company Unilever to create his own fragrance, which is set to be on shelves worldwide by the end of the year. Lynx Elon's Musk is a 'labour of love' for the South African-born businessman, who said he's always wanted to enter the fragrance market but didn't have the...

LEROY PERCIVAL | Music Editor | CONTACT The World Wildlife Federation (WWF) has today conceded it has run out of animals across the globe for indie bands to use in their names. There has been an explosion in recent years with acts like Husky, Fleet Foxes, Gorillaz and Boy & Bear joining the likes of The Eagles, The Monkees and The Byrds in chucking an...

The hundreds of rich kids currently stranded in the Bahamas after spending upwards of $12,000 each to attend Ja Rule's failed 'luxury' music festival, say they had very different perceptions of what it means to be livin' it up. Organisers of the much-hyped music festival in the Bahamas have given up on the weekend event halfway through, after people had already...

26 April, 2017. 10:23 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A 29-year-old North Korean soldier revealed to The Advocate this morning that marching like they do in the Hermit Kingdom is quite exhausting. Sur-Ri Park, of Pyongyang, said he can only keep it up for about half and hour, then it just becomes 'too much' for his legs to keep doing. "It's a...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT President Donald Trump has today turned his attention to another hostile overseas region that has been the centre of anti-American, anti-Authoritative rhetoric. The former-reality TV host and current world leader has said that he's received intelligence about a prominent figure in Queensland's South-East corner that has been making wild threats of hostility towards outsiders. "I have received word...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT During his current visit to India to meet with state leaders and the humble director of our government's favourite multinational mining corporation, Guatam Adani, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has quickly signed off on the coal magnates request to use up to six CH-47 Chinook heavylift helicopters to briefly airlift Uluru. Just in case there is any coal...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Trump administration says Syria is already looking "much much better" after a dramatic intervention triggered by a horrific gas attack on civilians, which the US says was carried out by the President Bashar al-Assad. "It's looking great" says Trump press secretary Sean Spicer. "The USA has already brought peace to millions of people in Syria. You wouldn't even...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT An horrific sarin gas attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun has resulted in a bout of confusion for a young Syrian child whose entire family was horrifically killed for no reason. While the kid says he knows the terrorists are evil, he's not sure who's supposed to be the good guys in this 18-side conflict. The attack, which...

4 April, 2017. 11:23 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Speaking to The Advocate this afternoon from the northern Syrian city of Jisr Ash-Shugur, a freelance reporter has hit back at claims made by various media commentators that nobody cares about the conflict, saying that many of his articles receive up to a dozen unique pageviews. Payne O'Hourigan was awarded a cadetship at The Betoota...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Jesus Christ's much-anticipated return has been stalled, it has been revealed by the 2059 year old religious figure today. The son of God says he worries that in this particular political climate, his messages will be misinterpreted as an assault on the religion that he pretty much started. It is believed that his previous life as a working class socialist who spread the...