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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Minister for Health and the Prime Minister have warned that if young people continue to abandon private health insurance, they may be forced to increase health funding. GreHun and ScoMo spoke to the media this morning in Canberra just hours after a damning report into the health insurance industry found that young healthy Australians...

INGRID DOULTON | Local News | Contact A Betoota Heights man responded by giving his friend a 'dead arm' after he was told his mother falling over caused the weekend magnitude-6.6 earthquake that was felt across huge swathes of The West. Lewis Cardy, who joined a few mates early this morning to play a couple games of 3 on 3 in the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The residents of a French Quarter sharehouse have all told our reporter this morning that they don't own a toilet brush, despite there being one right where'd you'd find one. The four young men living at the Rue de Branlette address all study at the nearby South Betoota Polytechnic College and unsurprisingly told The Advocate...

TRACEY BENDINGER | Culture | CONTACT A recent report released by the CSIRO's Diamantina outpost has revealed that a staggering 80% of grievances voiced by children can be attributed to their smartphone addiction, that’s according to their parents. The two-year study found that parents managed to link almost any illness, complaint or question back to kids being on their phone too damn much. “I once told...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A local man says he's joined the Sith this afternoon, something he said he'd never thought he'd have to do. But after recent events in England, Mark Coulter says he's got no choice. "I've had this All Blacks jersey in my closet since 2011 when my mates and I went over to New Zealand for the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact There have been wide scale job losses at the French Quarter's Deutsche Bank offices this week, with many wondering what they're going to do now they've been shafted. One of the shafted, Stephen Poon, spoke briefly to The Advocate this afternoon as he walked out of the bank's Rue de Branlette skyscraper just moments ago. "This...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has rejected pleas from the ABC and News Corp to drop investigations into journalists who published stories relating to national security, after someone who worked in national security gave them secret documents to publish. Media bosses have written to Mr Dutton requesting any legal action against the journalists to not proceed, however the Home...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact One working woman's fight against The Man entered a new dimension this morning after she came into work to find that her uniform now includes a stupid hat. This latest punch in the face comes just days after Daisy O'Leary's employer cut her weekend and overtime penalty rates just because they could. Daisy spoke to...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Today as he climbed Uluru for what he expects to be his last time, a Betoota Heights man paused to share his opinion on the growing refugee crisis in Australia. Panting and puffing about a third of the way up one of the country's most sacred natural wonders, Brendan Sommers said if we let them...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A group of friends has come together on a new group chat this afternoon to plan an intervention for local man, Dexter Pearson, after the 29-year-old was sprung watching Nine's Young Sheldon unironically earlier this week. Inside the new WhatsApp thread, Dexter's housemates revealed they came home from work on Tuesday evening to find Pearson...