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WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT Although Jocelyn Arndt (21) used reasonably ambiguous language when questioning her housemates over social media today, she has told The Advocate that she is fully aware who ‘the milk theft culprit’ is. “Oh yeah, I one hundred percent know it was who drank my milk,” said the share tenant in an old French Quarter house. Arndt’s statement to The...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact "We should do a podcast, guys," he said, hoping nobody would take it seriously. But seriously they did. Today heralds the release of 'The Drop Zone with John, Paul, Greg and Fork' - a new podcast that promises to offer an in-depth and unique insight into nothing in particular. Recorded in the living room of Fork's French Quarter sharehouse, the first...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Each morning at the Betoota Polytechnic Medical School (BPMS), the students there stand at attention before a lifesize photograph of The Hon Greg Hunt MP, Minister For Health - and recite the Med Students' Creed: This is my stethoscope. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My stethoscope is my best friend. It is my life. I must master...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | Contact It has been revealed that stay-at-home interior designers might have a bit more weight to their opinion than you once thought, with social media sharing platform Pinterest now giving out degrees in interior design. Pinterest launched in in March 2010 as a way for founder Bill Silbermann to get his wife to redesign their kitchen without him having to do anything....

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact "We don't get a real winter in this country," explained Ben Ticehurst, like our reporter wasn't already aware of that. "But that doesn't mean we can't pretend." The visiting Sydneysider spent this morning struggling to park his Pajero at a 45-degree angle on Daroo Street while his partner, Ainara Boxford, turned her nose up at every...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Riley Martin smiled to himself and relished in his own sense of self-worth; swinging by his wrist on the D45 Bus to the French Quarter this morning. He'd just spied another commuter on the bus bobbing his head along to a Red Hot Chili Peppers track. "What a dumb cunt," he thought to himself. The 27-year-old post-graduate barista...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Taxpayer-funded comedian Tom Ballard says he's prepared to call his personal hero Bob Brown a 'cunt' live on air to appease conservatives. The ABC's Tonightly host needs to appease conservatives after his popular programme labelled a Batman byelection candidate from the Australian Conservatives a 'cunt' during a show earlier this week. "The phone's been ringing off the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A social circle engrained deep in Betoota's working class Flight Path District are today congratulating one of their more hotheaded male friends, Kane (29), for not toweling anyone up for a while. While his female friends say it's a direct result of him having a nice girlfriend that they set him up with, his footy mates say that it...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The shampoo bottle looked him in the eye lied to his face. This morning, a Betoota Heights man described his hair as 'malleable and rugged' - those aren't the words he'd choose now. Sam Chen, a popular local heritage architect, says he's ruined his look by washing his hair has it's now floppy and whispy. "A live music venue in Sydney...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact "There will come a day when I will finish the book," she said. "Just when that is - I don't know." Dona Mathers told our reporter that she wasn't sure when she first picked up Truly Madly Guilty by best-selling Australian author Liane Moriarty. All she could confirm was that it was some time towards the end of last...