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14 May, 2015. 11:55 IMRAN GASHKORI | Sports | [email protected] The biggest rivalry in Rugby League is set for 2015, with the Holden State of Origin ready for it's biggest series ever! The VB Blues will take on the XXXX Maroons at ANZ Stadium on May 27 in Game 1 of this years series. The men wearing blue will represent New South Wales as well...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THE NSW CENTRAL western town of Wellington has successfully bid to be the filming location for the much anticipated World War Z 2, which starts principal photography in November. Known locally as "Little Antarctica", the quiet village beat other meth-riddled towns such as Mount Gambier, Bourke, Ballarat and Wangaratta. The film project is expected to throw almost A$50m...

13 May, 2015. 15:30 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact NATIONALS DEPUTY and agriculture minister Barnaby Joyce is set to be crowned "King of the North" after fighting to secure a massive $5bn funding injection in to the Top End in last night's federal budget. The fiscal windfall will provide low-interest loans and finance to private businesses to build major infrastructure projects such as...

13 May, 2015. 14:35 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected] In an extremely fascinating turn of events, several high-profile Australian entrepreneurs decided to sit in an elite Sydney restaurant for an entire afternoon, drinking expensive alcohol. The boozy lunch ended with two of the men involved acting like drunk Australians, with many saying their behaviour border-lined on that of drunk rugby league fans. The two men...

12 May, 2015. 14:35 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected]   The 2014 Budget's biggest hitter, the concept of forcing young people without a job to wait six months before they could receive benefits, has failed to pass the Senate and has triggered outcry from social services groups. It appears that this, among many other things, may have been the deciding factor surrounding Joe Hockey insisting...

12 May, 2015. 11:55 IMRAN GASHKORI | Sports | [email protected] Nick Cummins has opened up The Advocate today, revealing the hard work behind his seemingly off-the-cuff colloquial Aussie proverbs. On Saturday night, the on-again, off-again Western Australian rugby cult-hero once again delivered yet another memorable "Aussie one-liner" in a post-match interview, after the Western Force’s victory over the NSW Waratahs. Nick Cummins, a product of...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A bloke you kind of knew in high school, and haven't had much to do with since, has grown an edgy chin strap - confirms Facebook. The prominent Christian youth leader and Foo Fighters enthusiast says he now feels confident in his youthfulness - thanks to a daring yet revolutionary style of beard. "It's like, the rest of the kids...

11 May, 2015. 11:41 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact SCOTT MORRISON is emerging as the new Liberal pin-up boy, just months after being accused of violating human rights by the United Nations. The minister for social services has become the face of a new Coalition advertising campaign which markets the sprightly 46-year-old as a "softer and more approachable" politician, as opposed to...

7 May, 2015. 11:55 IMRAN GASHKORI | Sports | [email protected] NRL's most notorious current player, Greg Bird has this week joined a notorious list of NRL record-breakers. The top 5 most suspended players in the game. John Hopoate -- 45 weeks Luke O'Donnell/Craig Smith -- 32 weeks Greg Bird -- 29 weeks Danny Williams -- 28 weeks Jason Stevens/Adrian Morley -- 26 weeks The Gold Coast psychopath was suspended...

8 May, 2015. 10:17 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact OVER A hundred bottles of XXXX Bitter have been uncovered by school children at the Brisbane City Botanical Gardens during a class excursion. Archaeologists from the University of Queensland (UQ) have been called in to survey the site and to establish if anything found has historical significance. Professor Virginia Smith from UQ says...