The Nation

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT A Brunswick woman has today made sure to let all of the people in her echo-chamber know that she will be saying #NupToTheCup. Taking to her heavily curated social media accounts, Beck O'Chamber revealed that she will be seizing on the yearly opportunity to gratify herself by using emotive language to belittle people who enjoy a day off...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The wins keep on rolling for the people of Melbourne today as they enjoy yet another public holiday for the city's eponymous horse race. It comes after people all over Melbourne were paid by state and federal governments to stay at home and put their feet up while this whole localised pandemic blew over. Now that...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact One Nation suffered a massive swing against them in the Queensland election over the weekend and now the party leader is looking to lay blame. Pauline Hanson told reporters in Brisbane this morning that she blmaed the election disaster on the lack of immigration into Australia during the pandemic. The former seafood chef told The Advocate...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke this morning to Scott Morrison where they discussed how the Australian Prime Minister was able to crush the Victorian outbreak in just a matter of a few short months. Mr Johnson is staring down the barrel of having a country under lockdown over the Christmas break - which...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Queensland's Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has won a third term in office, declaring victory for her party and entering the history books as the first female to win three terms as leader at both a state or federal level. The Labor leader is set to form a majority government, with the computers predicting the ALP to win 52 seats, to...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A Betoota Heights father of four sat in the tiny, ColorBond encircled courtyard beside his display home this morning and told The Advocate that he's been doing his research and US Presidental hopeful Joe Biden is going down. Greg Taylor, of River Street, explained that despite the most recent poll predicting a large win for...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT Like most middle class white men with ears, Timothy Brasby (35) is a big fan of English rock band Radiohead, a five piece known for their subversive blend of Brit-pop and prog-rock that makes anyone who listens to them a certified music aficionado. As the freelancer sits alone before his laptop, headphoned and staring out a cafe window to...

FRANKIE DeGROOT | Local News | Contact The relationship between Gladys Berejiklian and her next door neighbours is once again strained after their Halloween decorations were slammed by the premier as ‘too scary’.   The decorations, consisting of realistic mannequins dressed as ICAC auditors, are posed to represent an actual investigation and have been staking out the Premier’s Northbridge house for a week, performing such tasks...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A troupe of Melbournians spoke to The Advocate this afternoon before sending our reporter a photo of them enjoying their first Friday afternoon beer in months. The two men, Tenochtitlan Jones and Mike "Brake Fluid" Coleman, are born and raised in Melbourne with a strong Victorian bloodline, they say. Their two companions chose not to comment...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Former-WAFL-player-turned-TV-presenter-turned-politician, Basil Zempilas has today once again forgotten his duty to the people of Perth. This is the second time that Zempilas, who was elected as the Lord Mayor of the Western Australian capital earlier this month, has been caught out forgetting that he is actually not a AFL sideline commentator anymore. The Lord Mayor says when he woke up...