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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Friends of Martin Golan are impressed the 27-year-old had that kind of money just lying around. They thought there was a myriad of things he could have otherwise spent the cash on - like paying down his HECS or even an errant credit card. Instead, those friends had to feign interest in Martin's new Rolex...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Tonnes and tonnes of David Pearson's oranges are going to rot this year because he can't find workers, locally and internationally, to pick them. The 69-year-old also wants you to feel sorry for him. Mr Pearson told this masthead that he echoes the sentiments of the Prime Minister, who said earlier this week that many businesses...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A second-generation property developer in Betoota Heights has laughed off suggestion some of his staff are better off on JobKeeper, telling The Advocate today that if they want to have nice things like him - they should just start their own company like his father did. Lawrence Cockburn of Cockburn & Sons Construction said wealthy...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | CONTACT The brain can be a bit of an asshole sometimes. The times it conjures anxiety over nothing, leaving you questioning if it’s a gut feeling or just your mind being dramatic again. The intrusive thoughts that casually urge you to stick your fork into the toaster or throw yourself onto the train tracks. The odd occasion it becomes fixated on looping...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The people of West Papua have been told today by the Australian Government that if they're looking at gaining some sort of independence in the next couple years, it'd be pertinent of them to offer up some natural resources to sweeten the deal. The Prime Minister began by saying he wasn't the Asia-Pacific's own version...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Channel Country Rugby League has been postponed for a fortnight today after one player in the competition has tested positive for a new strain of the H1N1 swine flu virus. Dave Marshall, a 20-year veteran of Betoota City CYMS, has been named as the player who's been quarantined at the Base Hospital after popping in for a routine...

FRANKIE DeGROOT | Local News | Contact Controversial plans to relocate Sydney’s popular Powerhouse Museum to a less-valuable site in Parramatta have hit an unexpected hurdle, after the Parramatta site was also subject to an offer from another developer. Consequently, the entire museum will now be moved to Broken Hill. The popular Powerhouse Museum was founded in the 1880s and was later moved into a former power plant in...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A Victorian man, who surprisingly doesn't have the Hubei spicy lung, has told reporters in Canberra this morning that he can't see how giving mothers the chance to re-enter the workforce with help via free childcare could help drag the economy out of the shitter. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg knows women with infant children make up...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT Hitting another week at full pace from the comfort of her council clean up retrieved couch, Emily Simpson has revealed to The Advocate today that it's been a big semester of university. Knocking the top of her third cup of tea for the day, the 3rd year law student explained that she's successfully managed to keep up the momentum...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Victoria's loudest champions of the culture wars have this week come out swinging against the Andrews government, for what they believe to be a lack of directions in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic. This comes just a couple weeks after the same whingeing cunts accused the Victorian premier of wildly exaggerating the risk of Covid-19 and deliberately...