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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Eating his Special K with an overly ripe banana throw on top, Michael Cleary was first shocked by the allegations levelled at Don Burke - but ultimately he decided that he wasn't surprised. The nation woke this morning to a string of sexual harassment, assault and misconduct accusations put on the former star of Burke's...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT The Keep Sydney Closed campaign has drawn massive support from the general public in the wake of a trendy inner-city burger bar reportedly playing the same Wu-Tang Clan song for the 412th time in a row. Urban Burg opened their doors three months ago after owner Buster Krick (34) realised there was not an American style burger chain...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT In what was a dramatic race, it has since been confirmed the hugger beat the handshaker to the greeting, in a meeting between two people who only kind of know each other. While both sides showed promise early on, the outstretched arms of hugger Lauren Smith, trumped the tentative centred hand of shaker Alex Barnes who was quickly...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact "Why did I do law? Why didn't I do something I enjoy?" The answer to that is local law clerk Louise Degally didn't want to die poor. But after taking a clerkship with one of Betoota's big six law firms, it seems that not even all the riches in town are enough to buy her soul. "They keep cornering me, trying to...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact "Hey, I've got a book for you." In just a matter of hours, Martin Fox has added a layer of complexity and depth to his personality that only a keen interest in literature can. Gone is the old Martin, the one that 'woops' and 'hollers' like a cheering American. He's been replaced by a placid, quiet and...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A couple of Zimbabwean migrants currently residing in North Betoota's new luxury housing estate have rattled several neighbours at a Christmas street party this afternoon. This comes after the news that Robert Mugabe resigned as Zimbabwe's president on Tuesday, a week after the army and his former political allies moved to end his four decades of rule. Andrew and Peta Smith landed...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Not even his partner-of-four-years is safe from Dale Packham's method of organising his phone contacts. Speaking to The Advocate this morning about the contents of his mobile telephone, the 27-year-old builder said it got too complicated having every 'fuck head architect' and 'dumb cunt concreter' save in his phone with their real names. So he came up with his own...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Speaking candidly to The Advocate once he'd left his comfy Betoota Heights Queenslander, local father Malcolm Coolie said that while he's happy for his middle daughter - he's not rapt with the fact that she met him on popular dating app, Tinder. "It just rubs me the wrong way, you know what I mean?" said...

MOLLY DALTON | Health | Contact Samantha Kennedy and I were great friends in high school. We played on the same soccer team and ran in the same circles - we were close. But all that changed one day when a husky, loud middle-aged man stood idle on the sideline of our championship game against The Longreach School of Distance Education back in...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A group freelance creatives insist that the sterile inner-city coffee-hub they live is actually still a bit gritty, in some parts. Even though each of them have spent most of their lives in leafy family suburbs on the city's fringe, before moving into the city to attend university six years ago, they say that this place is pretty much...