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29 June, 2015. 14:04 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A GROUP OF young real estate entrepreneurs have agreed to end their lives should interest rates break through 8%. Dubbed the 'Hoxton Park Four' by the media, the 20-something investors have formed a suicide pact should interest rates unsustainably increase in the future. Many young property investors have taken out gargantuan mortgages in the past 24 months,...

25 June, 2015. 16:32 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact JUDGING BY RECENT media reports, the use of marijuana for medical purposes could become legal in Australia in the foreseeable future. Politicians such as the Prime Minister, NSW Premier Mike Baird and Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews have expressed their support for the idea, and a clinical trial is due to start soon. But...

    9 May, 2016. 09:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact In what has been described as a "disappointing compromise" for the trustee board of the famous Archibald Portrait Prize, the Art Gallery of New South Wales has today told The Age that all announcements regarding the 2015 finalists will be postponed from July until early October. "This has nothing to do with the artists, gallery...

24 June, 2015. 11:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact RUMOURS ARE DOING the rounds in Hollywood today as Karl Stefanovic has reportedly signed on to yet another blockbuster sequel. James Packer's production company RatPac has allegedly secured the rights to the 1988 seminal smash hit Rain Man and all future remakes. Stefanovic is purportedly due to lead the production, resurrecting Tom Cruise's character...

23 June, 2015. 11:05 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact In the central-Queensland town of Moranbah, Locals are having to relocate their families south to Brisbane, in order to keep their jobs in the Moranbah mine. "It doesn't seem practical, but this place only likes hiring FIFO's (fly-in-fly-out workers) - the locals may as well be fucking kangaroos" says 4th-generation coal-miner, Ted Thornton. "My father...

  20 June, 2015. 13:00 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact BILLIONAIRE and entertainment mogul James Packer is dating American songstress Mariah Carey according to close sources and the invasive photographers who captured photos of them holding hands in Capri, Italy. It is believed that the pair are sailing around the Mediterranean on Packer’s yacht, with the couple soon bound for Cannes and St...

17 June, 2015. 15:32 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A SOUTHEAST ASIAN airline has come under fire for accidentally broadcasting an episode of Air Crash Investigations during a scheduled flight to Europe. The carrier, which cannot be named for legal reasons, has been subject to multiple hull losses and near misses in the past 24 months. This is the latest controversy that...

16 June, 2015. 16:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A LEADING SYDNEY University palaeontologist has lashed out at the makers of Jurassic World for depicting dinosaurs incorrectly and unrealistically. Speaking exclusively to The Advocate this morning, Associate Professor Don Pennebaker said the producers of the blockbuster film should "hang their heads in shame" and should be "made accountable for what they've done". "In terms...

  CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact John Grant, publican at The Lord Kidman Hotel in Betoota, says he can't believe the rise in petty-assaults he has seen in his small-town pub. He says most of it has to do with intense arguments over American television series. "It all comes down to those bloody televisions mate," says Mr Grant as he scours clean...

15 June, 2015. 16:46 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact AN 81-YEAR-OLD man has finally quit his dead-end job after threatening to resign for six decades. Peter Marcell started working as a cellarboy at Outback Queensland's famous Betoota Hotel in 1955 after completing his university studies. He thought he'd only be there for a number of months, just to tie him over for a summer...