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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A small amount of rain fell over our cosmopolitan desert community this week which triggered countless phone calls between the district's primary producers. For one local farmer, it seems he's missed out on a decent drop compared to his neighbours once again. Jake Warburton, a small acre cattle producer and dryland cotton grower, phoned the bloke...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT Byron mother and online retailer of bespoke Balinese goods Andrea Vachser has today taken to a few online Facebook groups to voice her concerns about big pharma today. This comes after news broke this morning that Australian scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in the fight against the Coronavirus by manufacturing the virus in a lab - which...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The US Central Intelligence Agency has revealed their disappointment this morning at news that a group of local scientists have managed to replicate their 'coronavirus' under laboratory conditions. This latest development is a critical breakthrough in the quest for a vaccine, the report says, which is needed more than ever. Over a hundred people have...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Morrison Government is today awoken a very real political force that has the potential to have the entire Federal Cabinet hung drawn and quartered in the main street of Canberra. Thousands upon thousands of mum and dad sports club administrators from around rural Australia are tonight revving their Taragos outside their local MP's electoral offices after new revelations...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Prime Minister flew into Orange today, in Central West New South Wales, to say a couple words before flying back home to Sydney Scott Morrison spoke to journalists out the front of The Parkview Hotel this afternoon. He was expected to talk about the drought and how many communities are about to run out...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT Betoota born and raised Aldous Whitely has today thrown the US Democratic Party Nomination race on its head. The previously unknown local Political Science student at the University of Queensland did so by busting out his new Bernie Sanders hat. It's believed that the one simple move has dealt a huge blow to the other contenders for the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact In the weeks preceding this cruel dry summer in November of last year, Mike Dickson's car began to shit itself, he says. "It was making a high-pitched whine - but only when I turned it on. It went away after a while," he told The Advocate. The 29-year-old is speaking to our reporter in the food...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT Although many hypothesised Detroit horror-rapper Eminem peaked in 2002, the man himself continues to make the statement fact with the release of his 11th studio album Music To Be Murdered By. Returning to his alter-ego Slim Shady, the rapper appears to be aiming his latest release to old fans of his music that no longer find violence funny now...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT A ten-year study by the CSIRO has concluded that this weekend was a pretty good time to avoid social media. Once a place where people quoted song lyrics embellished with alternating capital letters and posted photos of woeful looking meals, modern social media now features opinion-driven news articles which are only made slightly bearable by the memes they inspire. With...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT In what is now being referred to as j-gate, a paisley shirt owner accidentally leaked their plans to criticise whatever song ends up being number one on the triple j Hottest 100. A national tradition for almost 30 years, the Hottest 100 is said to be the world’s largest musical democracy and a huge cause of arguments. In 2018, the...