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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Southern European men are well-regarded around the world for not being dictated by the unachievably high magazine standards of body image set by Calvin Klein commercials. In fact, the further south you go, the less they care. Australian-Greek men are some of the most free men in the world With this phenomena not yet fully monetised by Australian retailers,...

DUSTIN WAGIN | Style Blitz | CONTACT Achtung mein party people! Be that party the GOP, One Nation, or New Balance, fascism is back baby, and it’s sexier than a well kept Luger! With hip young trendsters like Milio Yianappolous and Richard Spencer sporting looks as pure as their Aryan bloodlines, and Australia’s own George Christiansen posing like an SS Officer in 70s...

10 December, 2016. 14:23 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact PERSECUTED AUSTRALIAN-BORN activist Julian Assange revealed to The Advocate this morning that he's was bored enough last week to make himself his own character on FIFA 17 and one for soon-to-be-former US president Barak Obama, which he spends most of each game slide tackling. He's also taken the Socceroos to World Cup...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Fidel Castro, the outspoken revolutionary who brought communist hostilities much closer than comfortable in 1959, and then defied the United States for nearly half a century as Cuba’s leader, embarrassing 11 American presidents and surviving countless assassination attempts, died on Friday. He was 90. Cuban state television announced the death but gave no other details. However, Latin American...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The American couple that John Mellencamp's 1982 American Heartland rock classic  'Jack & Diane' was based on say they are very happy to see Donald Trump elected into the White House. The couple, who were immortalised in the song that spent four weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, say that life isn't as peachy as it...

9 November, 2016. 11:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact BEFORE HEADING OUT TO vote, Dennis Gobbmann cleaned his Glock 23 and spent an hour putting on his makeup. The 24-year-old refrigeration technician was lucky to not cast his vote from the Jacksonville watchhouse today, after being arrested last night for throwing rocks at cars overnight. Making it clear to his social media followers...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT With the US Presidential election well under way, some of America's most critical swing states are experiencing a surge in turnout among Latino voters, in an unexpected phenomenon that could provide a major boost to Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Statistics from Florida, Nevada, Georgia, North Carolina and Arizona all show a significant increase in the “sleeping giant” of Latin-American voters...

6 November, 2016 17:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A recent finding by The Borowitz Report shows that the almost unbelievable rise of Presidential nominee Donald Trump is attributed to the fact that most of his growing contingent of supporters feel that they have been ignored by the political system over the last twenty years of Government. Speaking to The Betoota Advocate today, Trump supporter Hank...

31 October, 2016 10:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A boatful of obedient Asylum Seeker families, currently drifting through the Arafura sea, have shown a commendable level of respect this morning - by turning their leaking wooden vessel around and heading back to their war-torn homelands. Yesterday, the Australian Minister for Immigration, Peter Dutton, made it clear that stateless, war-weary boat humans would never be...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact SPEAKING CANDIDLY TO HIS NEW friends at an after-work drinks party on a New York City rooftop, Peter Michaels forgot he was in the capital of world commerce and casually dropped a c-bomb mid-conversation. "Yeah mate, I hate that new cunt in HR. I can't wait until the prick goes cunt up at the Christmas...