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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Acting Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has been copping more drive-by abuse than normal, he says, which he chalks up to there simply being a lot of French people who call Canberra home. The Member for New England enjoys going for hill sprints from the Canberra National Pistol Club all the way to the summit of...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Acting Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has told The Advocate that he's been getting phone calls from some angry French person all morning and it's "doing his fucking head in". "Oh man," said Joyce to our reporter. "That bloke needs to relax. He just rings us up to give me a spray, I didn't even fucken...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT Things aren’t getting much better for at-home office worker Casey Sprigg (28) who as a resident of Melbourne has once again found herself in a lockdown almost too boring to be traumatising.  Now in a regular cycle of waking up five minutes before starting her day of work from home, knit-picking around the house between Zooms and drinking the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact One of our town's biggest fuckwits has gone out and bought himself a used fuckwit car today, which he plans to use for fuckwit activities. Commercial leasing agent Robbie Pickle, said fuckwit, said he needs a car to suit his fuckwit image and there's no better car on the market than a hot Mercedes...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Member for Manilla George Christensen has told reporters, albeit sheepishly, that his ears pricked up this morning as overheard on the television that euthanasia has been legalised in Queensland. Mr Christensen extolled his love for the Phillippines - as he began talking to The Advocate via telephone just moments ago - as he was...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A local Uber driver has kicked off the obligatory conversation that comes with the ride-share app by asking a French Quarter city worker if she actually believed in this shit. When Daisy Haynes asked the driver what 'this shit' was, he just laughed to himself. "This whole virus thing. I can see you're wearing a mask....

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A study conducted by our town's peak scientific body, the South Betoota Polytechnic School of Science, has concluded that the issue the government is facing regarding the funding of Industry Minister Christian Porter is unlikely to go away if Mr Porter bursts into tears in front of journalists, plays the victim and goes on...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Frontbencher Christian Porter explained to the press today in Canberra that the so-called blind trust that he's been using to fund his ongoing is lost on him. Porter, who is currently suing for , is accused of not being completely transparent as to where the large sums of money are coming from to...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Opposition leader Anthony Albanese has come out swinging against those in the community and those in his own party who feel that parachuting Senator Kristina Keneally into a safe - albeit extremely multicultural and economically disadvantaged - electorate in Southwest Sydney is a terrible and disgraceful idea. "I think they should be looking at Kristina's...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact As the walls begin to fall in around the New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian, the Prime Minister has offered some sage advice in how to deal with the world when it won't leave you alone. "You just disappear completely," he said. "And after about a week, you turn up to cut a ribbon and the...