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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact New South Wales Premier Glayds Berejiklian has told the state's corruption watchdog today that her relationship with former Wagga MP Daryl Maguire was the dream of every girl from Sydney's North Shore. Mr Maguire is currently facing a corruption inquiry after allegedly taking kickbacks from property developers. But Mr Maguire, as a soft, moleskin-wearing country boy...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact And just like that, the Kiwi Titanic that is the All Blacks has collided with the Green and Gold iceberg and is now pretending that everything is going to be OK. It won't be. The Wallabies' 16-16 draw yesterday with the All Blacks in Wellington spells the beginning of the end of rugby union in New...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and her Liberal Party Pippen Andrew Constance MP have today quashed any rumours that their coalition with the Nationals is on the rocks. This follows the allegations that yet another melee has broken out within the government on Friday after it was revealed Nationals leader John Barilaro will lose his licence after receiving several fines...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Prime Minister has been forced to defend a controversial aspect of his government's budget this afternoon, telling media that the $19bn earmarked for private schools ensures the nation has a steady supply of mediocre politicians long into the future. In a rare phone call with The Advocate, the man this masthead used to call...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Publicans in the south are worried proposed changes to the way they harvest pensions and wages from addicts will cripple their businesses. The NSW Government has earmarked changes to the poker machine industry where players will need a special gambling card to play the pokies. They will become entirely cashless. It's a policy that's got many publicans...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A small businessman has lied to his staff aged over-35 this morning and says he's not about to sack them in favour of hiring younger workers on the JobMaker subsidy. For nearly 20 years, Martin Pooley of Pooley's Cleaning and Taxidermy, has provided quality service to the wider Betoota Community. From the ground up, Martin built...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Holly Dowling (27) has called Far West NSW home for nearly five years since she took up a nursing placement out there in one of those rare aged care homes that are well funded enough to have medical staff. She loves the town and the people, and she's got a lovely boyfriend that plays as a ruckman for Central. In...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact An Old City District cafe has been slapped with a large fine today after rangers from the Shire Council discovered it had a name of conventional spelling. Cafes with conventionally-spelled names are banned in the Old City District and Betoota Heights, which is something Indulge Cafe owner Greg Brady wasn't aware of. "The rangers came in...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact One of the most controversial parts of Treasurer Josh Frydenberg's budget won't make it through Parliament after Labor and the crossbench said they wouldn't support the plan to turn people on the Old Age Pension into food for pets. Frydenberg laid out in his budget that Australians on age-based welfare are costing the taxpayer billions...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A bubbly young women from the heart of our town's cosmopolitan French Quarter had to sit for 40 minutes over the weekend and listen to what Paterson's Curse is and why it's bad. Dana O'Driscoll, travelling in a late model Subaru Outback, pointed out at the old Dearden Dairy on the Jundah Road on Sunday...