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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact ZOOKEEPERS AT DUBBO'S WESTERN Plains Zoo are delighted to announce this morning that scientists from the nearby TAFE college have successfully taught Glenn, a four-year-old juvenile gorilla, to read at a Daily Telegraph-level. Named after Narromine-born cricketer Glenn McGrath, the gorilla was the first to be born at the zoo. His birth heralded a new...

28 July, 2016. 12:32 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THE ONLY COMFORT THAT Michael Southwell had after he left work yesterday was that there was still 15 Bitter tins in the fridge left over from the weekend. Leaving work, he ducked into his postcode's tavern around the corner of his New Farm Queenslander. Something he hasn't done since last year. Because at...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact In a landmark decision for the River City, iconic watering-hole The Brown Snake Hotel is the first Brisbane pub that will now allow entry to male patrons not wearing R.M Williams boots. Local publican, Gorden Langer says management came to the decision last year when US Navy warship USS Blue Ridge sailed into Brisbane to take part in joint military...

26 July, 2016. 10:56 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact TAKING A DRAG OF a Longbeach Menthol then spitting between his filthy Globes, Jaydyn Harper said that he's "not even a fucking racist" because you can't be racist towards a religion. The 23-year-old disability pension recipient took time out from throwing rocks at buses to speak to The Advocate this morning. "Mate, just...

26 July, 2016 10:45 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT An array of humans with real human emotions have today offered their real human opinions to the Northern Territory Juvenile Corrections sector, after ABC's Four Corners program aired footage of a teenage boy, one of six boys tear-gassed at a juvenile detention centre near Darwin, being hooded and strapped to a mechanical restraint chair. The footage is...

25 July, 2016. 14:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact WIPING AWAY THE TEARS as their daughter graduates at the top of her class, parents Bill and Amanda Batten-Shein couldn't be prouder watching Katie (23) shake hands with the Dean, who handed over her Bachelor of Laws and a bottle of Windex as they posed for the camera. "She's finally done it,"...

22 July, 2016. 15:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IN A WORLD THAT'S GROWN accustom to Islamic terrorist acts, Australians woke this morning to news that somebody had tried to drive a car full of gas cylinders into the underground carpark of Merrylands Police Station in Sydney's south-west. To the relief of everyday people around the nation, the lunatic police pulled from...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A Brisbane high school has drawn criticism today after parents of students complained about new measures put in place to curb the popular 'Brissy pastime' of indulging in 10-on-1o street brawls. The rule was introduced this week to protect children, says Junior Serevi, Acting Principal. Parents had complained, he says, "about excessive 10-on-10s and also about children being hurt...

20 July, 2016. 17:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact NICK MALOUSH AND DANNY KOSCHE have been forced to re-enter the real world along with their former boss Wyatt Roy, after the 26-year-old lost his seat in this year's general election. As his campaign manager, Kosche was tasked with safeguarding Roy's re-election. Maloush, on the other hand, was responsible for the Buderim boy's...

20 July, 2016 14:45 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A retired chardonnay socialist from Sydney's lower North Shore has just come to terms with the fact that greyhounds aren't as adorable as she was led to believe by ABC Four Corners and the 120 different online petitions she has signed over the last 18 months. Wendy Peiterson (68) was one of hundred that made...