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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...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A Bondi man who has nipples the size of pikelets has told The Advocate that he had a red-hot go in life and that's why he gets to live by the water - and those people from out in the "Western Suburbs" who are "having a sook" about not being allowed to go to...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A French Quarter man who was once suspected of blowing up a Diamantina Credit Union branch office has told The Advocate this morning that he's become the one thing he thought he never would be. "That could've been me who punched that police horse down in Sydney," he said. Some in our cosmopolitan desert community who...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A local epidemiologist has told The Advocate today that they're preparing to fade away back into academic obscurity as the pandemic ends but warned people that blah blah this won't be the end of it or something like that. Professor Darcy Daley from the South Betoota Polytechnic School of Virology explained that people, especially the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Labor's pick for one of the most multicultural electorates in Australia has been spotted driving her new 1995 Toyota Supra around Cabramatta over the weekend. Kristina Keneally allegedly stalled a number of times and was seen to be granny shifting through the gears, which has sent Labor into damage control this morning. Leader of the Opposition...