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24 June, 2016. 17:01 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact NOT SINCE THE DARK DAYS of Margaret Thatcher's Britain has the British pound been in worse shape. With great predictable English panache, immortal singer Elton John is planning to rewrite Candle in the Wind in the wake of the Brexit vote. While some have suggested that John is double-dipping on the moving piece, with...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact BACK WHEN DOCTORS PRESCRIBED Ashes highlights for erectile dysfunction, Shane 'Keith' Warne was taking crucial wickets on a dead pitch in central London. That was 2005. Yesterday, Warne confident in US actor Charlie Sheen, telling him that there's no better drug than taking five on Day 4 of a Test match. "To be honest, I didn't know what...

22 June, 2016. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact UPHOLDING THE TEACHINGS of Christ and praising His moral standards on high has been at the core of Scott Morrison for his entire life. Hearing his political allies and opponents snigger behind his back as he strode through the corridors of Parliament House slowly chipped away at him. He tossed and turned every night...

INGRID DOULTON | Lady Writer | Contact YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR the term "dank" thrown around in ways that don't describe the air in your dad's damp cellar. My boyfriend spends nearly every waking moment he's not looking at me looking at his phone. Occasionally, he'll laugh and smirk - but he never shows me why. He says I wouldn't get it. On...

20 June, 2016. 13:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THE PRIME MINISTER HAS personally asked his Treasurer to stop vaping in plain view of journalists and other media professionals. Scott Morrison, despite never smoking, has taken up vaping in recent weeks to cope with the added stresses of a re-election campaign. This has begun to upset the opposition leader, who says the entire...

20 June, 2016 11:00 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Maverick North Queensland MP Bob Katter has called for Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to withdraw a controversial campaign ad apparently depicting a blue-collar worker endorsing the LNP. The ad, which has featured over 300 times on commercial television since its release yesterday, shows a NIDA-trained thespian pretending to relay the sentiment apparently held by Australia's aspirational...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact CLIMATE SCIENTISTS WITHIN THE Greens party have declared the drought over, as many long-parched swathes of Western NSW are now awash with swollen creeks and rivers. Dams that were boiled dry by the sun just months ago are now overflowing, giving the few farmers who've weathered a lack of storms a little bit of hope. Greens...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THERE IS A CERTAIN AROMA to urine that's gone stale inside a person, it usually smells like Tooheys White Stag passed through an old Dunlop Volley. It's unmistakable. The most civilised Australians have a can of Glen20 for moments like this, for the hours after you've been forced to have fish soup for lunch or even the most...

17 June, 2016. 13:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact JUST DAYS AFTER THE Courier-Mail reported that the prime minister is a humanoid reptilian sent from the future to enslave us all, Malcolm Turnbull has laughed off the allegations - saying he's 'fully human' and he even farts in bed like normal people do. "The only positive thing that The Courier-Mail does is wrap...

15 June, 2016. 18:05 OFFICIAL STATEMENT | Contact The Betoota Advocate's editors Errol Parker and Clancy Overell would like to finally face the media regarding the swirling rumours that suggest it was them playing the murdered LNP and ALP candidates from the Kennedy Electorate in Bob Katter's controversial new campaign video. Errol Parker has spoken on the matter. "This is in fact the truth,...